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You laugh but there is a lot of truth in that! I have an Eee 1000 which had a 40gb SSD - there are two reasons that you can't get that today. - SSD prices hav

You laugh but there is a lot of truth in that! I have an Eee 1000 which had a 40gb SSD - there are two reasons that you can't get that today. - SSD prices have gone up. - You can't put the cheap version of Windows on a device with a large SSD, so in the interest of rationalising product lines you can only get small SSDs or hard disks. If Windows can't be put on the device then at least the second pressure won't exist.

tocomment 17y ago
"You can't put the cheap version of Windows on a device with a large SSD" Why not? (BTW I don't know how to quote properly on HN, little help!)
- 10ren 17y ago
  There isn't proper quoting on HN, but three popular conventions are: 1. italics - to this with asterisks ( * ). To operate, they must be adjacent to the text that is being quoted, and end up looking like this. If not adjacent, you get * this * 2. Use ">" and indentation, like in email. 3. use quotes - like you did. nb: there is help page available for the above syntax: http://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc http://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc It used to be available as a link next to the textarea when you comment, but I just checked and it appears to be gone. You might want to check out the FAQ in general if you're new (read: I strongly suggest you check out the FAQ): http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html (there's a link to it at the bottom of the frontpage; I'm being extra helpful by repeating it here)
- tome 17y ago
  Presumably Microsoft won't allow it. To make Windows competitive they have a discount for OEMs to install Windows on machines with low spec, and presumably this SSD is too large to be able to take advantage of that.
  - notauser 17y ago
    This is correct. The limit appears to be 16gb to qualify for the (very large) discount. http://www.itexaminer.com/microsoft-adds-to-atoms-restrictions.aspx http://www.itexaminer.com/microsoft-adds-to-atoms-restrictio... Supposedly the Win 7 license has no such restriction.

tocomment 17y ago

"You can't put the cheap version of Windows on a device with a large SSD" Why not? (BTW I don't know how to quote properly on HN, little help!)

10ren 17y ago
There isn't proper quoting on HN, but three popular conventions are: 1. italics - to this with asterisks ( * ). To operate, they must be adjacent to the text that is being quoted, and end up looking like this. If not adjacent, you get * this * 2. Use ">" and indentation, like in email. 3. use quotes - like you did. nb: there is help page available for the above syntax: http://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc http://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc It used to be available as a link next to the textarea when you comment, but I just checked and it appears to be gone. You might want to check out the FAQ in general if you're new (read: I strongly suggest you check out the FAQ): http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html (there's a link to it at the bottom of the frontpage; I'm being extra helpful by repeating it here)
tome 17y ago
Presumably Microsoft won't allow it. To make Windows competitive they have a discount for OEMs to install Windows on machines with low spec, and presumably this SSD is too large to be able to take advantage of that.
- notauser 17y ago
  This is correct. The limit appears to be 16gb to qualify for the (very large) discount. http://www.itexaminer.com/microsoft-adds-to-atoms-restrictions.aspx http://www.itexaminer.com/microsoft-adds-to-atoms-restrictio... Supposedly the Win 7 license has no such restriction.