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Feedback: How fast ARE SSDs?

Sean B (Texas):

"You gave the Toshiba Tecra W50 a 'don't buy' in episode 136 of Before you Buy because it uses a HDD instead of a SDD. In the comments you suggested that Toshiba sacrificed 55% of the laptops performance for a 3% decrease in price. That doesn't sound right."

Even without a SSD, the W50 has a super-fast CPU, GPU and lots of memory.

Can not having a SSD really cripple a modern laptop by 50%?"

Here was the calculus I used:

That's how I got a 55% performance hit for a 3% cost saving.

So it wasn't a 3% price savings for a 55% performance penalty...
It was a 3% price savings for a 59% performance penalty...

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