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Netbooks and Mini-Laptops Buyer's Guide
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| The article on El Reg begins with what I think is a highly debatable (at
| best) or dubious (in reality) statement: namely, that you should opt for a
| netbook with an SSD, or solid state drive, instead of a model with a more
| traditional hard drive. "We'd argue that the solid-state drive is what the
| SCC is all about," El Reg argues, "capacity enough for the OS and a sub-set
| of your data, with the resilience you want from a throw-around machine."
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http://www.osnews.com/story/20286/Netbooks_and_Mini-Laptops_Buyer_s_Guide
Do 'Clouds' Get in the Way?
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| No one would accuse IBM senior vice president and group executive Steve Mills
| of having his head in the clouds.
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| IBM's top software honcho heads up a $20B operation at one of the world's
| foremost IT players. Still, Mills maintains that clouds are getting in his
| way. More precisely, Mills was speaking this week about cloud computing --
| and the casual way most companies and users throw around the term to describe
| anything and everything that has to do with Web-based activities and
| applications.
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http://www.internetnews.com/software/article.php/3770936
Recent:
Geek Sheet: A Tweaker’s Guide to Solid State Drives (SSDs) and Linux
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| Tweak #4: Ditch the journal and RAID your SSDs. File system journaling is
| done primarily for increased reliability, but it’s a drag on performance.
| Given that SSDs by their nature are going to be less prone to reliability
| quirks than a conventional drive, Mandrake suggests creating a RAID1 of two
| SSD units and formatting the file system to ext2, or formatting them to ext3
| and mounting them as ext2 in the /etc/fstab. Dump your MySQL database on a
| RAID of ext2 SSDs, and you’ll be in performance hog heaven.
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| Gonna mortgage your house or send your children into slavery for sweet SSD
| love?
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/perlow/?p=9190
If your SSD sucks, blame Vista, says SSD vendor
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| It's Windows Vista's fault that solid-state storage isn't performing as well
| as its proponents predicted. So said SanDisk CEO Eli Harari, but at least he
| didn't go as far as saying it's Microsoft's problem to fix.
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http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/07/22/sandisk_ssd_vista_beef/
Related:
Vista - How Much Memory Can I Have With Windows Vista?
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| We'd say that if you're running a 32bit version of Vista (or XP for that
| matter), not to bother putting in more than 3GB of memory - you just won't
| get the use of anything more. Certain companies such as Dell actively market
| PCs with 32bit Vista and 4GB of RAM - surely a waste although their small
| print does warn you'll only get to use 3GB of it.
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http://www.practicalpc.co.uk/computing/vista/vista-32bit-memory.htm
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