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celebril | 12 years ago

And it's still faster than PCs. :)

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Apple makes some nice hardware but they are not alone in making good stuff. They have some stiff competition.

For example my Sony Vaio Pro is significantly faster than any of the numbers mentioned in the article. It gets nearly 1GB/sec in read speeds: http://i.imgur.com/24GdPiz.png

The drive is partitioned so ignore the odd size.

huxley|12 years ago

They won't get much stiff competition from Sony:

http://www.cnet.com/news/sony-agrees-to-sell-pc-business-rev...

SG-|12 years ago

The thing is, you don't need 1GB/sec for an 11-13" laptop.

tomf64|12 years ago

It has nothing to do with them being Macs vs. PCs, it just depends on who they buy the SSDs from.

Kayou|12 years ago

Even though your statement is not necessarily true, I bought a Vaio T11 almost two years ago and I was able to upgrade the SSD (the laptop has the footprint of the 11" MacBook air) and I have a HDD (in addition to the SSD), that I can upgrade very easily, I also had a free SoDIMM slot and was able to double the ram from 4GB to 8GB. That's what I like about PCs. Here with the mac you only have one drive that you cannot change or upgrade and the ram is soldered.

wnevets|12 years ago

my brain just exploded