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MacBook Air 1.6Ghz HDD vs 1.8Ghz SSD Benchmarks

Macrumors.com has preformed one of the first benchmarks on the MacBook Air standard hard drive vs SSD:

“Overall, the results of the 1.8Ghz SSD are as expected. The 1.8GHz processor gives a small boost in CPU performance. The SSD option, however, gives the most dramatic speed increases in non-sequential file reading since there is no physical drive head to move. As expected, the SSD is slightly slower at sequential file writing, but the low seek time makes up for this when performing non-sequential writes.”

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