Recent netbooks with Solid State Drives?

[Billie Walsh]

On 03/02/2011 10:32 AM, Alan Pope wrote:
> On 2 March 2011 16:09, Billie Walsh<bilwalsh at swbell.net>  wrote:
>> 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????
>>
> There's a _lot_ of models of Eee PC.
>
> Original 2G Surf, 4G, 701, 900, all had Celeron CPUs of ~900MHz (some
> down-clocked to ~600MHz). They also had their SSD as a combination of
> small soldered in chips on the main board, or mini PCI-e cards.
>
> > From the 901 upwards they pretty much all had Atoms of 1.6GHz. Many of
> these came with SSD or traditional spinning disks.
>
> I have owned 701s, 900s and my wife has a 1000. They are/were okay,
> but I don't think I'd buy one now. The 1.6GHz CPU is quite long in the
> tooth now, much better CPUs are available, but mostly not in netbooks.
>
> The Toshiba AC100 looks 'interesting' (an ARM based device).
>
> Cheers,
> Al.
>

My first Eee was a 4G. I didn't recall if it had a Celeron. But I stand 
corrected.

I admit the Atom processor is a bit limited but I didn't buy my Eee to 
be a primary computer. I have a Gateway 17 inch with a quad core as a 
primary laptop and two desktops, one quad and one dual. As a 
lightweight, tote it to the Coffee shop or library, or just when you 
need a small lightweight computer it's pretty darned good. My Gateway 
weighs eight pounds and the Eee weighs two. Perhaps my impression is 
because I don't have high expectations of it's abilities. It performs 
exceptionally well for what I bought it for.

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