SSD drives allow older PCs run Windows 7 well

Posted by: rasp1 on: 02/06/2010 05:06 PM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ]

SSD drives are notoriously expensive, but their performance is legendary. RunCore demo'ed a new lower cost SSD drive in older laptops like the Eee 900 and a Dell D600 Pentium M laptop. These machines were running Windows 7 and running it quite well.

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The Windows experience ratings on the machine were in the 1-2 range because of their slow processors, but scored an impressive 6.8 on the drive. These drives are cost effective as well, running just $99 for 16GB and $159 for 32 GB.

That doesn't sound like much, but windows will easily fit into a 16 GB drive, and have room for plenty of applications. 32GB will just give that much more room to grow.

I think that RunCore has the right idea though, concentrating on lower capacity drives at a much lower price making them available to the average Joe like you and me. And when you can stick one of these puppies in your aging laptop and have it run Microsoft's latest and greatest, who can argue with that?

Tagged as: RunCore, SSD, Windows 7, CES, Laptops