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And it's still faster than PCs. :)

Apple makes some nice hardware but they are not alone in making good stuff. They have some stiff competition.

For example my Sony Vaio Pro is significantly faster than any of the numbers mentioned in the article. It gets nearly 1GB/sec in read speeds: http://i.imgur.com/24GdPiz.png

The drive is partitioned so ignore the odd size.

The thing is, you don't need 1GB/sec for an 11-13" laptop.

Why? I boot VMs and 1 GB/sec makes it happen in 5 seconds

This comment is so bad it was featured on @shit_hn_says: https://twitter.com/shit_hn_says/status/462524610844442626

Why would someone in this day and age say something like ”X is enough” when talking about tech? Is that a wish to be featured alongside Bill Gates?

(yes, I know Gates' quote is apocryphal)

You can do much worse than being featured alongside Bill gates!

They won't get much stiff competition from Sony:

http://www.cnet.com/news/sony-agrees-to-sell-pc-business-rev...

Going forward, no, but they did in the past and others will step in to fill those shoes. I hear ASUS makes some good stuff currently.

It has nothing to do with them being Macs vs. PCs, it just depends on who they buy the SSDs from.

Even though your statement is not necessarily true, I bought a Vaio T11 almost two years ago and I was able to upgrade the SSD (the laptop has the footprint of the 11" MacBook air) and I have a HDD (in addition to the SSD), that I can upgrade very easily, I also had a free SoDIMM slot and was able to double the ram from 4GB to 8GB. That's what I like about PCs. Here with the mac you only have one drive that you cannot change or upgrade and the ram is soldered.

my brain just exploded

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