Tag Archive for 'ssd'
SanDisk has criticised Microsoft’s Windows Vista OS as not being “optimized” to take advantage of the speed benefits of solid-state drives. Speaking during the company’s Q2 financial results conference call, SanDisk Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Eli Harari described what he called the “Vista shortfalls” and how developing their SSD drives had been a special [...]
Over at CrunchGear they’ve got fed up waiting for Apple or another manufacturer to decide to build a low-cost, super-thin web tablet, and so they’ve decided to put together something themselves. Aiming for an eventual $200 price point, the spec would be straightforward: a reasonably-sized touchscreen, the bare minimum in terms of grunt (since all [...]
Super Talent has taken their flagship MasterDrive SSD models back into the workshop and eked some more speed from them, increasing the rate at which each can write to its memory so as to ensure maximum performance in data-heavy applications. The three affected models - the 2.5-inch SATA-II DX and MX, and the 1.8-inch Micro SATA [...]
Further close-up examination of ASUS’ latest new facet to the Eee PC range, the hard-drive toting Eee PC 900 30G, suggests the notebook might be more interesting than first believed. While the prospect of an Eee 900 with the SSD storage swapped out for a more mundane (though slightly larger) 30GB HDD doesn’t seem too [...]
The words “cheap” and “SSD” don’t tend to cluster together all that much, which is a shame because many people would love to upgrade their tech with cool-running, fast-accessing solid-state storage. OCZ promised to (almost) change things, with their Core Series line of drives: the predicted retail prices are $169, $259 and $479 for 32GB, [...]
SSDs are, in many cases, faster and more energy efficient than traditional hard-drives, but there have been unanswered questions about how reliable longer-term they are. That might not be the highest concern for an individual user, but anyone thinking of outfitting a critical server with solid-state storage wants to be extra certain that their data [...]
With flock of tiny netbook in the market, it’s about time for us to see one that is targeted towards education market, especially for the younger age tech consumer. Intel Classmate PC aka JumPC aka The Small has arrived in UK.
Dell’s Latitude XT convertible tablet PC is getting a multitouch upgrade tomorrow, which will introduce fingertip control from multiple contact points to the notebook’s capacitive touchscreen. The XT was the first tablet PC to use a capacitive panel, and at launch could recognise both fingertip and multi-tipped pen contact. Now it gets iPhone-style pinch zooming [...]
Apple has reduced the cost of specifying the solid-state drive option on its Air ultraportable notebook. The SSD, originally priced at $999, now costs $599 as an addition to the 1.6GHz entry-level Air. The 1.8GHz Air, which is pre-configured with the SSD, has dropped to $2,598.
Tablet PC manufacturer Motion has updated its handle-blessed range of C5 and F5 slates with new storage options, accessories and mobile broadband. The C5, which Motion describe as a Mobile Clinical Assistant (MCA) intended primarily for health workers, now has a choice of 80GB traditional hard-drive or a 32GB SSD, together with optional EV-DO.
