Recent netbooks with Solid State Drives?

[Billie Walsh]

On 03/02/2011 09:43 AM, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 10:46:50PM -0600, Billie Walsh wrote:
>> On 03/01/2011 12:15 PM, Bill Moseley wrote:
>>> I'm about to spend months traveling and looking for a
>>> netbook/laptop to use for Google Apps, uploading photos, minor
>>> photo editing (e.g. reduce photo size before sending over slow
>>> link), and pretty good on batteries and light weight.
>>>
>>> There's a good list here:
>>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupport/Machines/Netbooks
>>>
>>> That's a long list to work through, so does anyone here have
>>> recent experience with any of those listed that can share their
>>> opinions?
>> I've got an Asus EeePC 900 and I love it.
> I wouldn't call an EeePC 900 "recent".
>
> I've got an EeePC 900 and the SSDs it came with (4 GB + 16 GB) were very
> disappointing.  As in: terribly slow.  And unreliable: one died after a
> year of use (replaced under warranty), the other died after two years
> and a bit (just out of warranty).  Firefox was unbearable on it
> (remember the sqlite fsync issues on ext3?).  Chromium is fine.
>
> The EeePC itself is still in use as a home media PC, driving a 1080p TV
> with no problem (Compiz is amazing).  Except it can't play 720p or
> better movies due to insufficient CPU power (900 MHz Celeron).
>
> Marius Gedminas

I realize everyones experience can be different but I have a couple 
questions.

What operating system does your use?

As far as I know all the Eee's came with Atom processors. The Atom 
processors were definitely limited in their high end capabilities. You 
say yours has a Celeron????

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