What are the pros and cons of laptops using solid-state drives?

@karagala (447)
Philippines
July 20, 2008 7:53pm CST
The prices of these laptops are so tempting. I saw a laptop in the mall using 20GB solid-state drive. It has all the other laptop features like 1 GB RAM, WiFi, etc etc. The only difference was it was using a solid-state drive. Is it worth it?
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ferdzNK
@ferdzNK (3211)
• Philippines
21 Jul 08
Among the advantage of SSD is vibration less operation in laptop, more durable and do not generate heat compared to a standard mechanical hard disk. The main disadvantage of it is its capacity, the highest I've seen is just 32Gb, I wonder why they could not use arrays of those.
karagala
@karagala (447)
• Philippines
29 Jul 08
I asked my friend about solid state drive laptops he said it wasn't the hard disk that came to them for repair. He said it was the LCD most of the time was the reason for returning the product back to repairs.
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Wolfechu
@Wolfechu (1193)
• United States
21 Jul 08
I don't know if it applies to the newer machines, but I've got an ancient PDA-come-Laptop that's entirely based on flash memory and ROM, the Psion series 7. The big advantage with that is that you turn it on, and it's on; no bootup time whatsoever. You turn it off, and nothing's lost; no lengthy shutdown, no need for it to hibernate, no risk of crashing drive heads if there's a power failure. It may have moved on a bit since then, and I'm sure everything's not quite that instant with a bulky OS like Windows (The Psion uses Symbian EPOC), but I'd have to imagine the benefits are along those lines.