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MacBook Air With Solid State Drive Gets $500 Price Cut
Apple just ripped $500 off the price tag of their Solid State Drive-based MacBook Airs, which are now $2598, down from $3098. AppleInsider says the cuts came from two components, the 1.8GHz Core 2 Duo, which got a $100 cut, and the 64GB SSD, which got a $400 cut. The sub-$3000 bill should be slightly more appetizing to fans of light laptops. And fans of money. [Apple Store via Apple Insider]
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$3,200 EeePC with 32GB Solid State Drive Now on eBay
Ah, the Asus Eee PC, the little computer that can be modded to do anything, from stealing all your money in an ATM to grabbing all your money on the internet. This one will snatch $3,200 from your account if you want to buy it on eBay, with all the mods except for the 3G card: a 32GB Patriot XT solid state drive (in addition to the included 8GB), a touchscreen and a bunch of other things, an Air Play card to transmit all your sound to any FM radio. Complete specs after the jump. More »
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Century DIY SSD Now Goes Up to 2TB (in Theory)
While both Intel and Samsung are promising big drops in SSD prices by the year's end for now they still cost plenty. Unless you want to take the DIY route, and use this nifty gizmo from Century which uses compact flash cards for storage. The new version now accepts CF 3x cards and can create drives between 2GB and a crazy (and impossible, for now) 2TB in size. So you could buy a pair of 32GB CF cards for around $270, add in $192.57 for the DIY drive and you'd have a 64GB SATA SSD for about $460— less than half the cost of the 64GB MacBook Air's drive. Not bad, eh? Available from May 1st. [GeekStuff4U via Akihabaranews]
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Toshiba Dynabook SS RX1 Laptop First to Have 128GB SSD, Apparently
Toshiba's Dynabook SS RX1 now has an optional 128GB solid state drive built in, which Toshiba is claiming as a world first. It certainly beats the MacBook Air's SSD option, and is similarly slender, plus it squeezes in an optical drive. It has a 1.2 GHz Core 2 Duo, Intel graphics and a 12.1-inch 1280 x 800 pixel screen, and a claimed battery life of 12.5 hours, which seems huge. It's also configurable without the SSD but with an 80GB hard drive and a CDMA card for mobile internet goodness. Available from April in Japan at first, for around $4,000. [Ascii]
Sony VAIO TZ Laptop Gains 64 GB of SSD Storage
The Sony VAIO TZ was already a sweet computer before getting a 64 GB SSD inside. Now it has 314 GB of storage in all (64 GB SSD+250 GB HDD) and sells for $3600.
The Sony VAIO TZ was already a sweet computer before getting a 64 GB SSD inside. Now it has 314 GB of storage in all (64 GB SSD+250 GB HDD) and sells for $3600.
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Giz Explains: What's So Solid About Solid State Drives?
The best way to explain why SSD is a buzz acronym for the solid state drives we want in our notebooks is to show the problems with practically stone-age spinning hard drives inside most computers (and iPod classics). Since they have platters w/ magnetized surfaces that spin fast as they read or write data—think record player—they can be quite slow, and are really fragile. Anyone who's owned a computer or iPod knows (or will one day learn) that if the read/write head bumps into the platter, it's all over. SSDs aren't like that at all. More »
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Samsung 32GB Solid State Drive Reviewed (Verdict: Great for Old Laptops)
TrustedReviews (with that name, you know you must trust them) just tested one of those mythical Solid State Drives that everybody announces but nobody actually seems to get. This 32GB Samsung SSD has an EIDE interface, which won't work with most modern laptops, but "its super fast access times are going to give you a nice boost in performance." Sounds like a good way to give a speed bump to your old notebook. More »
laptops
Sony VAIO Type G: Another 12.1" Sub-notebook with 32GB Flash Drive That Doesn't Come from Cupertino
For those who think that June will never come, can't wait to get a sexy subnotebook with flash storage even if it doesn't come with Mac OS X and live in Japan, here's the new Sony VAIO Type G: a 12.1-inch notebook that not only comes under the 2 pounds mark (1.97 or 898 grams) battery included, but includes a 32 GB solid storage unit for $1,926. More »
software
Transcend 16GB Express Card: Fabulousness Comes at a Price
Transcend has a new 16GB Solid State Drive in Express Card form. It will do wonders for boosting your notebook's hard drive capacity on the road while wreaking havoc in your credit card at the same time: There's no official US price yet, but it is $1,337 in Europe, which actually is not that 1337. More »
peripherals
SanDisk Announces Cheap 32GB 2.5-inch Solid-State Drives
CeBit, the largest consumer electronics show in the world, starts up on Thursday, and it's gotten to be a favorite time for disc manufacturers to roll out 32GB 2.5-inch solid-state drives. Samsung announced its 2.5-inch 32-gig drive last year at the show, and now SanDisk is getting in on the act, with the big news being its $350 price. More »
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Create Your Own Solid State Notebook Drive
If you're dying to take advantage of solid state drive's fast boot times but can't afford actual solid state drives here's a ghetto fabulous one from GeekStuff4U. This DIY drive gives you four slots to put 2GB SD cards into, which in turn combines into one large 8GB drive which your laptop can use as the OS drive. More »
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