[Discuss] Linux on laptops

Shirley Márquez Dúlcey mark at buttery.org
Thu Nov 12 12:16:24 EST 2015


The tiny eMMC drives in Chromebooks are usually soldered on. There are
not a lot of systems yet with soldered-down larger SSDs, but the new
ultralight MacBook is one.

On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 12:08 PM, Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Nov 2015 08:36:25 -0500
> Kent Borg <kentborg at borg.org> wrote:
>
>
>>   - SD cards are not terribly fast nor reliable--but how much should
>> I trust random "SSD"s that come with soldered in notebooks these
>> days?
>
> Are you serious? Somebody's soldering in hard drives (SSD or
> otherwise)? Who is doing this? How did you find out about it? Where can
> I get documentation about this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> SteveT
>
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