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guruboy · 07-06-2007, 12:14 AM

I'm going off to college not this fall, but the one after that. I'm really excited about laptops with solid state disc drives. I don't need the storage space for music and everything mentioned in this guide...I've got my desktop for that. I'm sure that by the time I go to college, the SSD-based laptops will have cooled down a bit in price, but what about power consumption? Do they consume more or less power than hard drives? I'd like to assume less, because they don't need a big 'ol motor to run, but I'd really like to know. It would be incredibly awesome to have an SSD laptop...SSDs are smaller, produce no sound and way less heat...

07-06-2007, 12:14 AM	#12
guruboy Member (8 bit) Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Amherst, NH Posts: 131	I'm going off to college not this fall, but the one after that. I'm really excited about laptops with solid state disc drives. I don't need the storage space for music and everything mentioned in this guide...I've got my desktop for that. I'm sure that by the time I go to college, the SSD-based laptops will have cooled down a bit in price, but what about power consumption? Do they consume more or less power than hard drives? I'd like to assume less, because they don't need a big 'ol motor to run, but I'd really like to know. It would be incredibly awesome to have an SSD laptop...SSDs are smaller, produce no sound and way less heat...