No spin: Ars reviews the MacBook Air with solid state drive:

“The $1,300 question is whether the SSD is worth the extra cash. The answer seems to be no. I experienced only moderate gains in battery life and not very noticeable speed differences. The one major benefit of the SSD model is that it doesn’t cause the same types of slowdowns as the HDD model during times of high disk activity, and that’s certainly a huge plus. Speedy read times are great, too, but they are balanced out by pokey write times.”

So, it seems that, for an extra $1300 (yeah that almost doubles the price of the laptop, even if you get a faster processor) you just get rid of HD access slowdowns. Jeez.

The interesting thing is that the switch to SSD does almost nothing for battery life, which means that the standard HD is not the culprit in the battery “issues”… What could it be?

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