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Digital Curmudgeon

There’s a dirty little secret about computer performance that is hiding within plain sight. A solid state drive (SSD) will take almost any machine manufactured within the past five to ten years and give it a massive performance boost. I have an Asus 1000HE EEEPC Netbook from four or five years ago. It came with a 160 gigabyte 5900 RPM

Upgrading An Old MacBook To An SSD

One of the machines I have is a 6 year old 13” white plastic Intel MacBook. In recent years I’ve used it as a backup machine just in case I needed it. It has a 2 gigahertz Core 2 Duo processor and is maxed out at 2 gigabytes of RAM. Solid State Drive prices have been dropping lately, so I

Crucial Launches 1.8″ SSD

Lexar Media has added a 1.8" range of SSDs to its Crucial RealSSD C300 product line.  These solid state drives (SSDs) are ideal for netbooks, ultrathin laptops and tablets or anywhere that 2.5" drives are too big. Amazingly, these 1.8" versions perform just as well as their 2.5" siblings,  with read speeds of up to 355MB/s and write speeds up