Is SSD Option for Your Laptop Worth Its Premium Price?

While the replacement of your spinning hard drive with Solid State Drive give promising benefits for your laptop such superior reliability, faster data access, and longer battery life, etc..It also costs a premium price compared to the traditional hard drive (roughly $1300 for the Apple MacBook Air and $700 for the Toshiba Portege R500).

In reality, the first users have seen the SSD option only delivers marginal gain in battery life and better, but not perceivable performance gain. Watch the analysis from WJS’  Walt Mossberg after the jump!.

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