Why are SSD laptops so rare and expensive?

pappa_golf

why not buy the laptop YOU want , not one being dictated to you, and spend £40!


£40 (SSD + USB h/disk case) is the going price for a 1t portable drive , which is what you will probably need to but after fitting a small SSD

indesisiv

MarkBargain wrote: »

Given that 128GB Solid State Drives (SSDs) only cost £35 and are so much faster than HDDs, I find it strange that laptops still use HDDs as standard with SSD laptops costing a lot more or not being available at all many places. People often say to buy an HDD laptop and upgrade it to SSD, but what a hassle (especially moving Windows over). Come on shops...more SSD laptops please!

Most people need more space than 128GB on a laptop! So need the HDD.

On mine I have put a 256GB SSD in as the main drive and replaced the CD with the old HD. So certainly for me if they are going to use small SSD's in laptops then they should also come with (or have the facility) to put in a 2nd harddrive.

RichardD1970

MarkBargain wrote: »

Thanks for the info about upgrading from HDD to SSD, so perhaps not as difficult as I thought. Still, I am sure the average user would prefer to buy a laptop with an SSD in it to start with than have to do that.

Saveonlaptops have Lenovos with SSDs for a reasonable price (i3 4GB £279.97) but I think Lenovos can have rather poor keyboards, otherwise that would be a relatively good deal. Ebay laptops with SSDs mostly seem to be Lenovos around the £300 mark.

My Lenovo has a 1TB hybrid SSHD, best of both worlds.

Nowt wrong with the keyboard, although the mouse pad can be a bit flaky at times.

pappa_golf

AJXX wrote: »

Generally it isn't however check specs/ease of fitting before buying the SSD (or laptop even).

I recently got an i3 HP Ultrabook off eBay for an absolute steal with the intention to use it for light web browsing, also purchased (separately) an SSD to give it an extra edge.

I've done upgrades on desktops and laptops for years, just assumed it would be a fairly easy job, but holy crap, I spent 4 hours having to turf up the bloody keyboard and half of the internals trying to swap the HDD out for the SSD - the rate expletives where flying out would have made Gordon Ramsey proud!

Worth it in the end, but at some points I thought I was going to just chuck it out the window.

On a side note, and this is likely personal preference, but if you're updating an existing PC to an SSD drive then I'd take the opportunity just to freshly install Windows rather than mess around with cloning your existing HDD.

Couple of memory sticks off eBay (32 GB's) probably end up costing less than £10.

Download Windows 10 image - use something like Rufus to image the USB stick - then boot from it and install windows.

Yes you'll have to then move data across and re-install programs, but you'll end up getting rid of an awful lot of rubbish built up over the years.

did your ultrabook take 32g?


please supply me with 32g of sodimm memory for £10




PS: the link I posted to for the win 10 ISO , contains microsofts of image software , why do you need Rufus

kwikbreaks

pappa_golf wrote: »

please supply me with 32g of sodimm memory for £10

I suspect AJXX was talking about pen drives to do the data transfers and windows install rather than sodimm memory. I seriously doubt any laptop could handle 32GB of memory.

pappa_golf

kwikbreaks wrote: »

I suspect AJXX was talking about pen drives to do the data transfers and windows install rather than sodimm memory. I seriously doubt any laptop could handle 32GB of memory.

and the necessity to use rufus , when Microsoft supply the correct programme

Mr_Toad

As others have said it's a simple process.

When I bought my MacBook Pro I'd already bought a 250GB SSD and the first thing I did was install it and do a clean install of the OS.

A couple of years later I upgraded the 250GB to a 500GB SSD and because OS X is *nix based it all I had to do was back up my personal directory do another clean install then copy my folder back.