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Re:Microsoft wants you to 'do the math' by fleitz on Friday May 06, 2011 @05:01PM (#2522475)
Given the lifespan of SSDs I'm not sure I'd expect much long term stability from a MacBook Air. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/05/the-hot-crazy-solid...
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Re:Microsoft wants you to 'do the math' by wriq on Friday May 06, 2011 @05:16PM (#2522512)
I haven't heard of any stability or reliability issues regarding Apple's choice of storage in Air's, MacBook Pro's (w/ SSD), iPads, iPhones or any Flash-storage based product. A single blog post with it's extremely limited scoped is a weak reason to write off an entire group of storage tech.
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Re:Microsoft wants you to 'do the math' by tomlin on Monday May 09, 2011 @09:30AM (#2528623)
There's probably some truth to SSDs dying off horribly, but like anything else, the tech will evolve and then you replace your SSD with a new SSD at some point. Wouldn't hurt to use Time Machine as well.
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