Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:22:19 -0700 From: Kurt Buff <kurt.buff@gmail.com> To: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: you're not going to believe this. Message-ID: <a9f4a3860906231222r65faaf1cia6b68186c79f4791@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20090622230729.GA20167@thought.org> References: <20090622230729.GA20167@thought.org>
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On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 16:07, Gary Kline<kline@thought.org> wrote: > you guys aren't going to believe what i just found on the web for > the ASUS Eee-901 [or is it the "900"]. it was for the 9- and > 10-inch screens. i was using konq which just segv'd so i am > taking a break and thought i'd share this. > > last night, i could barely believe the ten-inch with a 40GB SSD. > these mini-notebooks take two memory chips. they just plug in. > i was googling around and found they have 32's and even 128's. > so you can get 64 or up to 256Gigs of solid state disk ... > not in a year or two (or five or six), but now. > > i'll double and triple check to make sure this isn't a sham, but > they had a thing on you-tube... Oh, and next time i see the > speech therapist, i'll lug my hugmongous thinkpad and demo what > i've done with my scripts and flite.... > > 8 kilobux for a Doze speech dev my butt. with berkeley unix and > open source tools, you can have it for a few hundred bux. > > gary For a small unit like this, SSD is really nice. But, for my workstations/servers, I'm wondering if a pure battery-backed RAM disk, in RAID1 with a regular hard drive, might be the real screamer. Kurt
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