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Old 01-09-2014, 03:56 PM   #463
bill_mchale
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Originally Posted by ApK View Post
The $199 Acer is (or at least was when we bought ours) available for the same price with a 320GB HDD or a 16GB SSD. We have one of each.
(I have the HDD for the Linux system.)

We note that while the boot speed of the SSD is impressive, The HDD boot is pretty darn fast, too. More importantly, we have almost never had to reboot these things. Unless the battery goes totally dead, there is almost no reason to.
They both wake from sleep very quickly.
I checked the Acer website before I posted... So I am going by Acer's official prices. That being said, it is always possible that Street Prices will be less... But that would be true of Acer's competitors as well.

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