[geeks] Those new mini-notebooks

[Joshua Boyd]

On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 04:01:03PM -0700, Nadine Miller wrote:
> Josh said SD, not SSD, though, so not sure if that's where he was  
> going or not.
> 
> For me, since I'd likely be at least dual booting the box (Acer's  
> forum has an extensive thread about OS X on the Aspire One), I would  
> also go with the hard drive rather than SSD.  If I was giving it to a  
> teenager or someone who is more rough on their portables, I'd probably  
> go SSD.
> 
> As for SD, apparently some of the systems automatically "append" or  
> "merge" or transparently mount the SD cards so they just look like a  
> part of the "userland" file system.  Based on the thread in the Acer  
> forum where I read that, there are some inconsistencies in the OS as  
> well as the hardware as Nate mentioned.

Yes, I really meant SD, as a secondary drive.  Presumably the primary
boot drive is some other sort of SSD on models like the Mini9.

The merging sounds like a bad idea.