Screeching tires, jet propelled Windows [finally]! Yikes! 30 years of speed-craved assembling and abandoning, loving and leaving PC's never prepared me for this jolt juice. As they say of a few other really good things in life such as Verizon fiber optic internet (FIOS), once you've had an SSD boot, you'll never go back! But unlike fiber, you can take the SSD with you, especially when installed in a a laptop.
The cause for this lift-off: Kingston Technology sent me a 64 gig solid state disk upgrade kit, on my qualified request to improvise an "old computer resuscitation strategy" for these turbid economic times. Given the domestic tech budget, my biannual upgrade has resorted to miniature i-products, rather than desk tower upgrades. However, having finally managed to properly equip my principle computer into doubling as the living-room entertainment center, I decided to dust off a 6 year-old, defect-ridden, very dog Dell to serve only my book writing needs while the TV is sucking up all available desktop & bandwidth.
What is a "Solid State Disk" and why put such an expensive beast in Grandpa Dell? Speed, speed, speed. 45 second boot. 5 second program load. Details next installment.
