and less wasted time waiting for a physical disk to spin up to read your data. Unfortunately, SSDs with large capacities are expensive, making them only useful for very specialized purposes. Small capacity SSDs, like the 4 GB-16 GB flavors built into netbooks...

cell, yielding values of 00, 01, 10, or 11. Because you can fit four times as many possible values in a cell, the data density in MLC chips is higher. This is why MLC drives inevitably have higher capacities than their SLC cousins.   There are some downsides...

who want to reduce the loading time of games. Samsung previewed a 1.8” 128-GB SSD at CES and SanDisk will have a slimmed-down 1.8” 72-GB SSD for notebooks in the summer. Capacity on SSDs is creeping up and price is creeping down, like this 72GB SSD from...

For the record, the Vye mini-v S37 sells for around $800. As always, expect prices to drop over time. HP also plans a version with a solid state drive later in the year; there’s no price for that yet, and HP won’t confirm the capacity of the SSD, other...

to an SSD. You don’t even need a top-performance SSD. You really just need something with decent, current-gen specs, capacity for room to grow, and factor support that provides plenty of updates for all of the new functionality coming to SSDs. OCZ’s...

and a 4GB SSD. The third model, which sold for $399, had a 5200 mAh battery and a 4GB SSD. I went for that version of the Eee. Around the time of my purchase I heard rumors of an Eee with the higher powered battery and an 8GB SSD. It seems to be on the market...

Gaming graphics 3.6 Primary Hard Disk 5.0 Samsung X360 Specifications List CPU and Speed Intel Core 2 Duo U9400 1.4 GHz, 1401 MHz Video Adapter Intel GMA X4500 Physical Memory 3 GB Battery Capacity 5900 MaH Disk Drive 128 GB SSD DVD...

possibilities than the 701, it will still be compact. The star this summer will be the Linux version, which should be better than the Windows version, with a higher-capacity SSD....