>>Eurocom says the machine has a battery, which is a bit of a disappointment because it had previously labelled the portable power source an “uninterruptible po

>>Eurocom says the machine has a battery, which is a bit of a disappointment because it had previously labelled the portable power source an “uninterruptible power supply”. > The difference being? Once I'd taken in the specs I noticed where the corner they shoved the tiny battery, and laughed. It probably manages 45 minutes on a full charge. Maybe a bit over an hour. I'd be very surprised if it managed any more than that. Mobile chipsets are designed to be aggressively obsessive with power consumption, whereas it appears this behemoth crams a full socketed i7 that most definitely does not have any such power-saving tendencies. > Is there a point in using RAID 1 on solid state drives inside a single machine? There's no mechanical failure to worry about and I wouldn't trust it to prevent any other kind of simultaneous failure. I'm honestly not sure. If anything it probably wrecks the wear leveling in the chips. It's probably a marketing move to make it feel like a "fast" laptop - I would hope most smart users would probably nuke the RAID and use Storage Spaces, ZFS or LVM instead.