Video: Core i7 w. HDD vs. SU9400 w. SSD Application Launching

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Even the webpages are loaded faster by the SSD.

 

Neat clip.

I compared my ASUS G60VX with my friend's ASUS G73JH (I think) i7 8GB RAM w/stock HDD. His laptop seemed to me it took forever to boot.

My G60VX even with an entry level Kingston SSD boots up very fast.

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All my applications and games load instantly too including TMT3 (ArcSoft Total Media Theater 3 Premium), which is well known for slow launch time.

iTunes still loads a bit slow though...

 

I want to see the Air booting. I also want to see benchmarks for the flash storage to compare to SSDs.

 

Here's some benchmarks:

See:
Ars answers your burning questions about the 11.6" MacBook Air


Also, look in the comments for more info.

 

Of course an SSD will be faster than a hard drive when your testing read/write times, but cpu intensive tasks will be bogged down by a SU9400. As for the SSD itself, I'm really looking forward to it being blown away by sandforce drives

 

Thanks! That was exactly what I was looking for.

 

Oh please.

 

This is what I have been saying for a while. It speeds the internet up on a fat pipe. Those IOPS rule the day here.

Anyone purchasing a CLUV is not purchasing it for CPU intensive tasks specifically. If they do then I think they already knew it would be slow going.

 

This is taken from one of the comments in that link.

"The 2GB RAM, on the other hand, appears to be hard-soldered to the main board. So choose your model wisely."



What are the battery times supposed to be like for those?

 

are you guys talking about the 11 inch macbook air, that 1000usd netbook?

 

The one and only.

 

It's in the video.

 

lol the one and only apple rip off.. i wouldn't buy it.. even if its light... rather have a cheaper acer or dell notebook... even if its slightly heavier... another obsolete offering by apple..

 

So would you call the Acer 1810T, Sony Vaio TT or Asus UL20 with the same processor series (SU4100/7300/9400) netbooks also?

 

He opened up the browser and it went to his home page, all obviously stored in cache on the disk. Saying "yee haw, da SSD makes da internet faster" is just ridiculous.

 

Eh...? faster processor doesn't make apps load faster anywhere as dramatically as an HDD to SSD difference.

 

Well it does make the internet faster if you frequently navigate back to pages that have already been cached. Of course its not going give your net connection more bandwidth or anything ridiculous like that.

HDDs employ all sorts of tricks to keep up like write back caching so that its not simply faster to redownload a page you have already visited. I think the moral of the story with these videos is that if you have an old or slow computer, a small SSD for OS/frequently used applications is a cost effective way to put some snap back into the ol warhorse. Or in the case of Macbook Air, it makes a very small, low power computer seem deceptively fast.

There is of course more to a computer than fast application loading but boy you should see the computers we have at work:



I'd like to put an ssd into this 8 year old peice of junk because Outlook takes about 2 minutes to load. Its not so much that time is so valuable to me that I'm scrounging minutes but the first thing I do when I get to work is fire up Outlook, MS Word, Explorer, Keyhouse Desktop and...I wait. And wait some more. Then I get an aneurysm. Wait some more...

Word not responding...smacks forehead.

So 5 minutes into a Monday morning I already want to kill something.

 

The point of the video is that most general tasks are not CPU limited. Pretty much everything except gaming and video encoding is hard drive limited. Most people will see their computer get much faster with an SSD than with any other upgrade (as long as they have enough RAM)

 

i saw their reviews on netbookreview.com so i guess they are. are they aslo 100usd?


edit: isnt the asus ul20 as 12+ inch notebook?

 

I would call all of them "ultraportables" since they all have Core 2 Duo's, can be upgraded up to 8GB of ram, don't ship with Windows 7 Starter, ect. The UL20 has a 12.1" screen, only slightly larger than the 11.6 of the 1810T and 11.1" of the TT.

I would not call my Acer 1830T a netbook. But whatever, if you want to call them netbooks go ahead. I don't.

 

Can make it even faster then ssd ... running everything from ram ..

 

i wouldnt call the ul20 a netbook. its got very good specs for its size.
not so familiar with the others. but 11.6 and 12.1 are not that far apart in size.

 

Actually it does. I'm on a 5400rpm HDD now. Web pages load noticeably slower than with my SSD. The differences aren't big but yet they're there. I'm not sure exactly why but it could be caused by the much faster writes, which makes writing to cache instantaneous.

It isn't, according to definitions by Intel and Microsoft. I would agree. Netbook for me means basic performance, ok for surfing the net. Basically anything with Atom (like) performance.

Asus 1215n is in a grey area. Dual Core desktop Atom and Nvidia ION 2 graphics is a bit more than basic performance.

 

What i would like to see is a CDM of the Apple SSD. It is quite an unconventional setup that Apple is using (space limitations) that makes replacements very hard.
I've been using an SSD for may be about 2 years now so this is all nothing new to me.
I've also known that a 1.6 processor is more than ok for everyday tasks as i own a 1.6 TT.
I do find it a bit funny though that for the longest time MBA users were pretty much against the ULV processors but of course now starting to appreciate it now the MBA uses one.

 

Ars Technica benchmarked it here.

I hope you do understand that CrystalDiskMark and any other synthetic benchmark doesn't tell how a drive performs in real life. As a recent example: Samsung SSD with much lower CDM scores than Vertex 2, yet outperforming it in real life.

 

Netbook Review reviews small laptops in general.

At least this is better than the Adamo.