![]() How bad? In the case of the Series 9, on our transfer test. that both came with SanDisk SSDs that woefully underperformed. ![]() In the past few weeks, we’ve received two Ultrabooks. What prompted Prospero's gripe was an ASUS Zenbook Prime UX31A and a Samsung Series 9 laptop. None of them said anything about the SSD they would use, other than its capacity. Today, I went to the websites of Dell, Lenovo and Samsung to configure a new laptop with an SSD. Lenovo clearly felt it was none of my business which SSD they included. I'm typing this on an SSD equipped T410s ThinkPad that I purchased new. Prospero warns that manufacturers "sometimes use completely different drives in different production runs of the same PC." Prospero was annoyed that the major laptop manufacturers refuse to divulge specifics about the SSDs in their computers. There are still large speed differences between SSDs. I mention this because of a recent blog by Michael Prospero, the Reviews Editor at Laptop magazine. Upgrading to faster SSD made a big difference in performance. It was agonizingly s-l-o-w, something that was not entirely the fault of the low end processor. ![]() Take it from someone who, way back when, bought a netbook that included the lowest of low-end SSD. In their very early days, SSDs were slower than spinning hard drives. ![]()
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