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SSDs make it easier to use a laptop on the bus
2 Comments · Posted by andrew in Uncategorized
I have a few times now mentioned working on the move as the biggest unexpected advantage to using public transport to travel.
That had one major exception – bus travel. It was just too bumpy and the hard disc on my laptop objected fiercely.
Until now. I’ve replaced my laptop hard disc with a “Solid State Disc” meaning the laptop is no longer nearly as vulnerable to bumps as before and I’m now able to work on the bus, or update my blog. I’m posting this from the back of an especially bumpy old bendy bus that’s doing my route home today.
As a bonus the laptop is now even lighter, its battery now lasts longer (five hours!), and it performs quite a bit faster too.
I chose an A-Data 300 series disc coming in at a modest 32GB. My old hard disc is now an external drive carried in my laptop bag for when 32GB is not enough.
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morecityplease · January 13, 2010 at 5:01 pm
Andrew, Great blog. I came over from the transport blog. Like your article on “free” parking. My wife is going back to study at Unitec and I asked her how much parking was going to cost? She said it was free. Amazing, Auckland is like another world.
Admin comment by andrew · January 15, 2010 at 3:12 pm
Thanks!
I can’t take credit for the
freesubsidised parking point, that was posted on Josh Arbury’s blog earlier – I reposted it here just to spread the messageBoth Josh and I first learned the concept from Julie-Anne Genter who was in the video linked to in the post you’re talking about (here).