Apparently, though unproven, at 22:11 on Monday 08 November 2010, J. Roeleveld did opine thusly:
> > 2. Those SSDs are shite. Get a mechanical drive. 8G is also not enough > > and the write performance is pathetic. > > You must have a lesser then then I've got? > I have quite decent read/write performance with the 16GB SSD in mine (Asus > EEE901) > I think it's a shame there aren't more Netbooks with SSDs. > Too many manufacturers and users tend to see these as small laptop- > replacements. These are meant for webbrowsing, email,... NOT to use to do > your doctorate... In all fairness to Acer, the SSDs in the A110 were early generation and improvements have been made. In the consumer grade, Intel is not too bad, Samsung is c...@p. And the early JMicron controllers were atrocious. Server grade disks are improving by leaps and bounds, but they are expensive and I don't see this filtering down to netbooks at this point in time yet. But I would be ecstatically happy to be proved wrong! Your use-case for netbooks is spot-on too - a laptop-replacement it is not. My kids use mine for surfing and I use it when on standby and want to go out visiting. All I need is an xterm - 1024x600 makes a fine terminal. With wired, wireless and a 3G dongle I have all bases covered. Plus it fits in the wife's handbag :-) no need to carry a big backpack with a huge Dell inside. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
