Samsung’s 256GB FlashSSD Announced

A few days ago, Samsung announced what is claimed to be the “world fastest and largest capacity 2.5” SSD” (SSD = Solid State Drive). It is certainly fast – it can read at speeds of 200MBps as well as write as speeds of 160MBps (very … Read more

Intel, Solid State Drives, and Centrino 2

According to DigiTime’s sources, Intel is going to be launching their own flash memory-based Solid State Drives (SSDs) later this year – by the end of September, and that they see SSDs becoming the default storage format for laptops. They are also claiming that the … Read more

Solid State Drives and Asus Eee PCs

Over on the EeeUser forums, “Tourane” has put together a series of benchmarks comparing the Solid State Drive (SSD) performance in the following netbooks / sub-notebooks: – Asus Eee PC 701 – 4G and 8G models – Asus Eee PC 900 The results are interesting … Read more

Lenovo IdeaPad U110 vs ThinkPad X300

Interesting little comparison of the 11-inch Lenovo IdeaPad U110 versus the 13-inch Lenovo ThinkPad X300. For the time being, until the ThinkPad X200 comes along, these are the two “current” ultraportables currently sold by Lenovo to business users and consumers (although it depends on just … Read more

Upgraded Software, iTunes on Eee PC 900

jkkmobile has news of updated software and drivers for the Microsoft Windows XP versions of the 8.9-inch Eee PC 900. You can download the updated Windows XP Software and drivers here: Support.ASUS.com. Joanna Stern over at the LAPTOP Magazine blog (she has to be the … Read more