My wish has been granted. The first laptop that has both an SSD and hard disk has been announced. No price yet, but it will probably be in the $400 range. Now we just need to see this idea translate …
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Since getting my Motorola Droid a month ago, I’ve put about 3000 miles on my car with the Droid acting as my GPS. Before that, I used a Magellan GPS and Google Maps on an iPhone for guidance.
Google Navigation basically puts the features of both devices into one and throws some extras in there as well. But in other ways, it’s not nearly as good. Here’s the breakdown
24/7 CPU usage cost
Dec 15
10w of electricity used 24/7 year round costs you $10 per year. This article takes that into consideration when comparing recent Quadcore CPUs, such as the Core i5, Core 2 Quad, Phenom II, and Athlon II
(Spoiler: The most expensive and fastest CPU isn’t the most expensive when considering power savings over 3 years)
Crucial, OCZ, and Intel now have 2.5″ MLC SSD flash drives with TRIM support, and prices have been rapidly falling… now down to the $2/GB range. SSD is now getting interesting. SSD is about 100x faster than hard drives …
