While a number of cheap netbooks ship with solid state disks in lieu of hard drives, they tend to be cheap solid state disks. This means that while you get one of the advantages of flash memory (no moving parts to break), you also often wind up with computers that feel sluggish compared to hard drive equipped models. A handful…

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Netbooks are small and affordable. And in order to make a laptop both of those things, computer makers typically build netbooks out of cheaper parts. For example, while a number of netbooks come with solid state disks, they’re not generally in the same class as the high end SSDs you’d find in more expensive laptop or desktop computers. Netbook SSDs…

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