Comments on: MacBook Air First Impressions http://www.applebriefs.com/2008/01/15/macbook-air-first-impressions/ A guide to improving your law firm or small business with Macintosh computers Wed, 23 Nov 2011 05:01:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tomasz Stasiuk http://www.applebriefs.com/2008/01/15/macbook-air-first-impressions/comment-page-1/#comment-30 Tomasz Stasiuk Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:28:25 +0000 http://www.applebriefs.com/2008/01/15/macbook-air-first-impressions/#comment-30 "Reliability" is a questionable issue with SSD. Sure, there are no heads to fail. However, I have heard from several sources that these drives, just like flash drives, have a limited number of read/write cycles in them, after which they no longer function. per Wikipedia: "Limited write cycles. Typical Flash storage will typically wear out after 300,000-500,000 write cycles, while high endurance Flash storage is often marketed with endurance of 1–5 million write cycles (many log files, file allocation tables, and other commonly used parts of the file system exceed this over the lifetime of a computer)." “Reliability” is a questionable issue with SSD. Sure, there are no heads to fail. However, I have heard from several sources that these drives, just like flash drives, have a limited number of read/write cycles in them, after which they no longer function.

per Wikipedia:
“Limited write cycles. Typical Flash storage will typically wear out after 300,000-500,000 write cycles, while high endurance Flash storage is often marketed with endurance of 1–5 million write cycles (many log files, file allocation tables, and other commonly used parts of the file system exceed this over the lifetime of a computer).”

]]> By: Jordan http://www.applebriefs.com/2008/01/15/macbook-air-first-impressions/comment-page-1/#comment-23 Jordan Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:20:20 +0000 http://www.applebriefs.com/2008/01/15/macbook-air-first-impressions/#comment-23 On the battery, $129 is also the cost of just purchasing a standard MB/MBP battery from apple, so the only downside is that you lose your machine for the time it takes them to install, so the price is not as big a deal as people will make it out to be, only the time frame. The other benefit to a SSD is that there are no moving parts, and consequently less heat is generated, which is a big deal in such cramped spaces such as this, hopefully flash memory will start to come down in price again, and this will become more reasonable (though it is on pace with the industry at this time). On the battery, $129 is also the cost of just purchasing a standard MB/MBP battery from apple, so the only downside is that you lose your machine for the time it takes them to install, so the price is not as big a deal as people will make it out to be, only the time frame.
The other benefit to a SSD is that there are no moving parts, and consequently less heat is generated, which is a big deal in such cramped spaces such as this, hopefully flash memory will start to come down in price again, and this will become more reasonable (though it is on pace with the industry at this time).

]]> By: tmlsuperspice http://www.applebriefs.com/2008/01/15/macbook-air-first-impressions/comment-page-1/#comment-22 tmlsuperspice Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:04:41 +0000 http://www.applebriefs.com/2008/01/15/macbook-air-first-impressions/#comment-22 I've added you to my roll. I’ve added you to my roll.

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