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Old Jan 29, 2011 | 10:01 am
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Originally Posted by adambadam
What exactly does that mean?
SSD = solid state drive. It's the same technology as a USB thumb drive, but in hard disk form. As a result, it is much faster. My laptop used to take a good minute or two from when I pressed the power button until I could use it - and even then, it kept loading stuff off the hard drive for several more minutes. Now it takes 20 seconds from pressing the power button to using Firefox.


Originally Posted by Efrem
Absent the backup, I doubt I would have stayed that calm. I know from what they said that the outcome would not have been as smooth, perhaps not even as fair financially.
On the other hand, getting angry would have accomplished zero towards fixing your computer. @:-)
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