[geeks] Those new mini-notebooks

[Joshua Boyd]

On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 12:28:29AM -0400, Nate wrote:
> SSD performance varies widely - for instance, the Acer Aspire One  
> with SSD could come with one of two different brands of SSD, and one  
> performs a lot better than another.  In linux, there's all sorts of  
> tuning you can do for SSD storage for better performance.
> 
> It's pretty clear that SSD storage is still pretty immature, and it  
> really doesn't offer a significant advantage for me considering the  
> massive tradeoff in storage size, which is why I got an Aspire One  
> with a 128GB hard drive.  SSD will improve a lot in the next few  
> years, but until then, eh.

I'll be watching the used market most likely.  Neither machine are as
cheap as I would like.  I want sub $300, if not sub $250.