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Ravenas
02-18-2008, 11:08 PM
SSD demonstrated against regular HDD, SSD wins every test by far:

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/02/11/macbook_air_face_off_hdd_vs_ssd_with_video.html

As Flash prices drop, the performance advantage of SSD will begin to outweigh the cost, and current capacity limitations promise to be less of a factor as well. That will allow Apple to focus its Mac OS X development efforts on optimal SSD reading and cached writing, rather than catering its optimizations to the nature of standard hard drives with longer latency and seek times.

http://images.appleinsider.com/mbaface-080211-2.gif

ShadowFold
02-18-2008, 11:26 PM
Cant wait till these go to reasonable prices, im definatly getting one!

Ravenas
02-18-2008, 11:27 PM
Seriously, SSD are extremely awesome. Loads times will be brought to an absolute nothing eventually lol :laugh:

tiys
02-18-2008, 11:38 PM
I dislike the Mac part of everything, but SSD looks promising. I hope that it doesn't cost me a fortune.

Ravenas
02-18-2008, 11:39 PM
You hope? SSDs do cost a fortune ;):laugh:

It's a SSD in a MacBook Air, hence the reason of me writing MacBook Air. Wether you like Mac or not has nothing at all to do with SSD performance boosts.

tiys
02-18-2008, 11:41 PM
A 1.8" 64 GB SSD costs around $1600 at retail and 128GB versions are $3000 and up

ZOMG! I didn't see that! :eek: