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You coulda fooled me -- here I was, thinking the SSD in my ThinkPad X300 was actually pretty sweet, and provided huge performance wins for my real-world workloa
by rcoder 18y ago
You coulda fooled me -- here I was, thinking the SSD in my ThinkPad X300 was actually pretty sweet, and provided huge performance wins for my real-world workloads, but I guess I was just getting sucked into early hype.
- ajross 18y agoThe title of the post is a little misleading. The point of the article isn't that SSDs are useless for laptops. It's that they aren't at a price point yet where they are attractive alternatives for typical customers. Current SSDs are still 5x more expensive than magnetic drives per byte. And while their seek performance is great, their streaming read performance is mediocre and their write performance is just awful. Likewise promises of low power consumption haven't really been realized yet.
- blogimus 18y agoLike passive (CSTN?) versus active matrix (TFT) laptop screens in the mid 90's. To most people, the TFT screen was not worth the additional cost. Those of us who valued its quality paid the premium. Now I think all laptops have TFT screens.