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    Tree Killer Senior Member Beirut's Avatar
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    Gah! My computer dude wanted $300 for a his used eeePC 701. What a shmoo. They're only a few bucks more new. And the new micro laptops coming out are much cheaper with better specs. I don't know what he was thinking.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Beirut View Post
    And the new micro laptops coming out are much cheaper with better specs.
    Yeah, but I'd think twice about getting one with a traditional hard drive.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Xiahou View Post
    Yeah, but I'd think twice about getting one with a traditional hard drive.
    Indeedely-doodely. I'm liking this no-moving-parts HD business.
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    The question is, if they have SSDs, are they MLC or SLC SSDs?
    SLCs are more expensive but they're faster and have ten times the life expectancy, you wouldn't want the HDD to die after a year or so would you? Of course it depends on how often it writes to the HDD but just thought I might throw this in after I read about it concerning the new cheap 2.5" SSDs which are all MLC based.
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    According to The Reg, the eee is selling like hotcakes in Europe.

    Asus saw its share of the European PC market more than double in Q2, and it's all thanks to the Eee PC. So show figures from market watcher IDC. In Q2 2007, Asus' share of the PC market was a mere 2.8 per cent. One year on, that figure had risen to six per cent. Its shipments rocketed from 497,000 units to 1.315m.

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