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On Thu, 4 Feb 2010, Simon Waters wrote:
James Fidell wrote:Simon Waters wrote:The main power saving focus is on laptops, and hard disk drives aren't generally a big part of laptop power consumption to start withOTOH I believe battery life is noticeably better with the solid-state disks on an Aspire One than with a normal hard drive.It may be, but the Aspire one SSD is 16GB versus 80+GB for the HDD, if ...
They're 8GB and really really slow )-: The later ones might be biger and faster though, but early ones aren't.
Saying that, I have as much of Debian as I need on mine and still have 4GB left over - as a "smart terminal" it's fine and the storage isn't an issue - even my wifey who wctually uses hers to produce word documents and sometimes back-up her camera doesn't find it an issue as she copies everything off it when back home.
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