Would engadget (and other blogs) please stop spreading this stupid idea that SSD's have questionable battery life, those 'tests' were flawed, they used a single process which they set going on both SSD's and HDD's, and because SSD's run faster they were able to run the process more times than the HDD's therefor using MORE battery.
Actually, people have only theorized that. The tests were not designed to prevent that possibility but no data was presented that showed that the SSD tests actually ran more times. Furthermore, other tests have shown that SSDs are NOT currently faster than hard drives and certainly not faster than the 7200 rpm drive tested. Repeating the same, tired factless argument that you have, wizzle, is worse than what Tom's has done.
We do know that the MBA with SSD has failed to show improved battery life or overall disk performance over the 1.8" HDD version in other tests.
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Would engadget (and other blogs) please stop spreading this stupid idea that SSD's have questionable battery life, those 'tests' were flawed, they used a single process which they set going on both SSD's and HDD's, and because SSD's run faster they were able to run the process more times than the HDD's therefor using MORE battery.
thank you
i hadn't heard that, but interesting.
i'm wizzle. how are you also wizzle? engadget, what's going on here?
Actually, people have only theorized that. The tests were not designed to prevent that possibility but no data was presented that showed that the SSD tests actually ran more times. Furthermore, other tests have shown that SSDs are NOT currently faster than hard drives and certainly not faster than the 7200 rpm drive tested. Repeating the same, tired factless argument that you have, wizzle, is worse than what Tom's has done.
We do know that the MBA with SSD has failed to show improved battery life or overall disk performance over the 1.8" HDD version in other tests.