Recent netbooks with Solid State Drives?

[Tony Pursell]

On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 10:09 -0600, Billie Walsh wrote:
> 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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The original EEEPCs came with the Celeron processor - I have one.

Tony