In a sign of things to come (hopefully), Dell is now offering a 64GB Solid State Drive (SSD) option for Ubuntu Linux-equipped Inspiron Mini 9 netbooks. An example configuration of the 8.9″ Intel Atom-powered Inspiron Mini: - $499 (USD)

way to get a PC that a) goes online and b) has a real keyboard. In the case of the S121, however, I can't name a laptop with a bigger SSD on the market, netbook or otherwise. This little laptop will have a big sticker price.

1/6/08 - Asustek Computer Inc. on Tuesday debuted an ultrathin, light netbook called the S121 with two new technologies, Microsoft’s yet-to-be released Windows 7 OS and the world’s largest solid-state drive (SSD) at 512GB.

Asus today unveiled the world's first notebook PC that comes equipped with 512GB SSD. The company has recently showed off this new notebook at CES 2009 in.

The Asus S121 mini laptop with 12.2-inch display is pretty special and the reason we say that is because it will come with the worlds first 512GB SSD. The Asus S121 weighs in at less than 3-pounds, some of the main specs include around

I am pretty sure that you have all heard about the Asus S121, a 12 netbook, and it seems that Asus launched a nice little bomb during the CES with the.

Asustek's 512GB SSD announcement comes just a few weeks after Toshiba revealed its own 512GB SSD for laptops. Few other companies have announced SSDs with such large storage capacity. The S121 will come with a 1.33GHz Intel Atom

Asus has just blown Apple out of the water with its own keynote today before CES: it's just whipped the covers off a MacBook Air-burning laptop with a huge.

G-DRIVE mini SSDs of 120GB and 250GB feature FireWire 800, FireWire 400 and USB 2.0 interfaces for connectivity to High Definition video providers, audio and other multimedia file types, at data transfer dates of 60MB/s in writing and

Inside it has 2-channel stereo speakers, microphone, 2MP web camera, wireless N support, a 4-in-1 card reader, the Intel Poulsbo US15W chipset, 1GB system memory, up to 16GB SSD, up to 160GB HDD, three USB ports, optional Bluetooth,

Dell recently announced that their two new Latitude E4200 and Latitude E4300 laptops are now available on store. These ultra-portable business-class notebooks boasts the latest Intel Core 2 Duo ULV (SU9300, SU9400) and standard Core 2 Duo (SP9300, SP9400) processors, an Intel GS45 Express chipset, an integrated GMA 4500MHS graphics engine, and support for DDR3 main memory. Come pre-installed with Windows Vista OS, both machines use a 64GB SSD for their storage, but the E4200 model also offers a 128GB SSD option, while the E4300 can be configured with a 250GB of traditional HDD.

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Toshiba has just updated its Qosmio portfolio with three new models: the Qosmio G55, Qosmio X305, and Qosmio F55 laptops. Let’s check them out one by one.

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Sony unveils several new laptops today. One is this VAIO G2 series, a stylish notebook PC featuring Intel Core 2 Duo (U7500 or U7600) processor and Solid State Disk (SSD). SSD is a data storage device that uses solid-state memory to store persistent data. SSD emulates conventional hard disk drive, thus easily replacing it in any application. With no moving parts, a solid state drive largely eliminates seek time, latency and other electro-mechanical delays and failures associated with a conventional hard disk drive. Sony offers three different choice of SSD capacity on its G2: 32GB, 48GB, and 64GB.

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Samsung Electronics will soon release the world’s first PCs embedded with a 32GB NAND flash-based SSD (Solit State Disk). Previously, NAND is mostly used on mobile computing application. It reads 300% faster (53MB/s) and writes 150% quicker (28MB/s) than normal hard drives. By replacing the hard drive with NAND SSD, multiple applications can be run more effectively, and large volume of data can be edited and reproduced more efficiently. For example, Microsoft Windows XP operating system will require up to 50% less time to boot up on SSD environment. Of course that’s a good thing. I’m sure I don’t have to explain how boring it is to wait for the Windows to finish booted up and get its system ready.

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