On other news ... the Macbook Air is looking very tempting now, especially after Apple upgrade the units with faster SSDs from Samsung.

"It’s a bit ironic that after Samsung releases its competitor to the MacBook Air in the form of the Series 9 notebook, the same company is responsible for giving Apple’s ultraportable laptop a bit of speed boost. That’s because new MacBook Airs are shipping with a new, faster solid state drive apparently from Samsung after initially coming with a Toshiba SSD.

How much faster is the Samsung “blade” SSD (a.k.a. the mSATA form factor that Apple introduced with the Air) than Toshiba’s? According to Anandtech, the Samsung SM128C offers 260MB/s read speeds and 210MB/s write speeds, compared to the Toshiba TS128C’s 210MB/s read speeds and 185MB/s write speeds."

Source: ZDNet

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