of kids want an iPad
The Nielsen Company presented a cadre of individuals with a list of nice, shiny gadgets and let them cross off anything and everything they'd like to buy in the next six months, and 31 percent of kids 6-12 picked the iPad as one of them.
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That's the runtime value weighted by it's performance number.
What the graph actually means is a whole lot of nothing.
This graph is slightly better, but I and others question the methodology used here.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-hdd-battery,1955-12.html
What we need is a battery-loading benchmark which is representative of REAL-WORLD USE. For example: boot up the machine with maximum charge at a controlled temperature and sit it on 5-6 auto-refreshing controlled content web pages. Reduce all the other power outlays to the minimum - Vista power saver mode, turn down the brightness, but maybe keep the wireless network connection just to keep it close to a real use-case.
Toms didn't do that - they ran a benchmark designed to "keep the notebook busy" and surprise, surprise the SSD's died faster under load - disproportionately to the power they consumed (perhaps NOT disproportionately to the work achieved in that time... but Tom's doesn't tell us how much "work" was achieved relative to the drive's performance... they don't even mention the power-saving settings.
Check out the test setup:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-hdd-battery,1955-7.html
What's missing here? Oh... Vista SP1 would be a MUCH better choice than a server-based OS.