Wednesday, January 7th 2009
ASUS Loads Up Notebook with Massive 512 GB SSD
ASUS is preparing the industry's first notebook with a 512 GB solid-state drive (SSD). The ASUS S121 comes in an ultrathin form-factor while carrying hardware that puts it in the grey-area between netbooks and UMPCs.
The S121 comes with a 12-inch LCD screen with a compact yet rugged chassis. It is powered by an Intel Atom processor running at 1.33 GHz and 512 MB of RAM. Its storage is care of a rather massive 512 GB SSD. Its availability and price isn't known at this point, though we suspect that with the exclusiveness built around this product coupled with ASUS categorizing it outside its ULPC/netbook lineup, it will carry a rather high price tag.
Source:
TechConnect Magazine
The S121 comes with a 12-inch LCD screen with a compact yet rugged chassis. It is powered by an Intel Atom processor running at 1.33 GHz and 512 MB of RAM. Its storage is care of a rather massive 512 GB SSD. Its availability and price isn't known at this point, though we suspect that with the exclusiveness built around this product coupled with ASUS categorizing it outside its ULPC/netbook lineup, it will carry a rather high price tag.
7 Comments on ASUS Loads Up Notebook with Massive 512 GB SSD
the market is saturated with net books & Eee laptops that its kicked up some pretty fee-arse competition. Obviously will have to wait & see if the pricetag justifys buying a laptop with 512Gigs worth of SSD. - On the other hand if you have enough ram you could probably set it up as some sorta cheap server.
512Gb SSD is O-V-A-H-K-I-L-L like George Clooney announcing hes homosexual kinda overkill
Its NOT powerful enough to game on unless the games can be software renderd
theres only so MUCH you can download before u run outta crap to download
& how often are you gonna fill the 512 up even half way with music & other media????? though in this sense its a great idea as the 2nd function of this laptop/netbook is Portable Storage.
the market is devided up into a few different catagories:
Medianuts - Audiophiles, Media (Music & Video) Editors & Music Engineers, CAD/CGI engineers etc
possibly not powerful enough to encode videos/music & render video at a decent speeds unless you enjoy waiting & stuttery low fps performance = Limited Use
great choice for Audiophiles who want to lug their WHOLE collection like everywhere. = Strike!!
Gamers
Dont even think about it.... = Very Limited Use
Business people
how many of them will store about 20years of powerpoint presentations?? on top of that Id think they'd rather store it on a USB key instead. but i suppose they will like the battery life of the laptop & generally the whole portability issue & the ability to hook up to the net almost anywhere = Limited Use
Regulars
who dont do much of anything & dont care or know much about whatevers 'hip' the so called 'lambs to the slaughter' for computer sales people. I dont see a regular guy using up even 300Gbs of space. = Limited Use
Tech heads
the ablility to run network diagnostics, hack wi-fi connections & download shit for hours & hours or set it up to function as a server. = 50/50 i suppose. with enough ram it would make a decent server, but im not sure the CPU is upto handling the stress of being a games server too well
but this one looks nice 12,1inch screen, Intel Atom, 512gb SSD but only 512mb memory that's just the bottom with that low memory but i hope it's upgradable:laugh: