Solid State Drives (SSD) Linux

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 10:14 AM, A. Khattri <ajai at bway.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 19 May 2008, C M Reinehr wrote:
>
>> I have an EeePC that I bought a few months ago and, while it probably
>> boots a
>> little slower than my desktop, it's not painfully slow. (Still boots
>> faster
>> than Windows. ;-) I notice it less when I'm booting than when I'm working,
>> but it's hard to tell whether that's the slow processor or the SSD.
>
> Of course, Psion pioneered the use of SSD's in handheld devices back in the
> 80s...
>
> I also own the EEE (8Gb Surf) but its too small (disk space I mean) for my
> use case (as a mobile development workstation), so I ended up buying the HP
> Mini-Note. The Mini has a larger, higher res screen, 92% full-size keyboard,
> 120Gb HD and looks nicer than EEE - all for $50 more than the 8G EEE. SuSE
> lasted 5 mins on the Mini before I wiped the drive and put Ubuntu on it...
>
>
> p.s. Anyone wanna buy a brand-new boxed 8G EEE with tweaked Xubuntu
> pre-installed? :-)

I'll give you $100 for it.  I'm serious.


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