SanDisk's new G3 SSD drives are set to offer read speeds equivalent to a 40000RPM platter drive at prices that won't make you queasy. The age of SSD laptops is looking imminent.

CIOs surveyed by SanDisk said they would be willing to pay a 10 to 20 percent premium for SSD notebooks. However, we didn't agree with Heye's point that the 240GB limit of the line is a selling point. Heye claims IT managers don't want

SanDisk's new G3 SSD drives are set to offer read speeds equivalent to a 40000RPM platter drive at prices that won't make you queasy. The age of SSD laptops is looking imminent. Coming in 60GB, 120GB and 240GB flavors, the new SSDs

One series is aimed at the hot netbook market and the other at laptops. The company's new higher-performance SSD for laptops are priced at less than $250 for a 120GB model and are being positioned as a "drop-in replacement" for hard

Last year’s proliferation of itty bitty and skinny laptops also helped to drive the proliferation of SSDs, and if Sandisk’s latest announcement is.

Richard Heye, heading up SSDs, comes on to talk. Paradigm has been dollar per gigabyte. But that paradigm is not the right one. We’ve become road warriors. Laptops have exceeded desktops. Have to have reliable data. HD break.

SanDisk Corp. announced two new lines of SSD drives at the International CES this week: a 1.8-in. series for netbooks and a 2.5-in. version for laptops.

The company has announced a new line of 2.5-inch and 1.8-inch SSDs for laptops of various sizes. The three new models come in 60GB, 120GB, and 240GB flavors, priced at $149, $249, and $499 respectively. Great values, by the sounds,

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)

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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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Just received this news in my inbox. Sony is now offering a free upgrade to Windows Vista operating system for every purchase of any eligible VAIO series laptops during 10/26/06 to 03/15/07. Pre-loaded Windows XP Media Center Edition and Professional edition will be upgraded to the equivalent versions of Windows Vista, either Home Premium or Business edition. Consumers can also upgrade from Windows XP Home Edition to either Vista Home Basic or Home Premium edition for a 50% discount off the normal price.

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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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