Any real-life experience using SSD yet?

With Office 2008 installed, I have 36.72 GB available.

Library: 7.22 GB
System: 4 GB
Applications: 3.27 GB
Users: 102.7MB
User Guides: 4kB

Seems like 15.5 GB or so.

I saw 2 MBAs rebooted at the same time by a tech at a Dallas store. The SSD MBA booted maybe a second before the 80G HD MBA.

BarryXSharp wrote:
Peter:

Another burning question I have on the HDD and SSD MBA models is the interchangeability or compatibility.

Can the HDD model be upgraded to SSD simply with a 'switch' ?
Can the SSD model be upgraded with a larger SSD down the road simple with a 'switch' ?
Can the SSD model be re-worked with an HDD of a larger size than 80GB if available simply with a 'switch' ?

I don't see why not. It shouldn't be any different than any other notebook computer where the drives can be replaced/upgraded. I really doubt that the firmware is set to reject upgrades. People have been installing 320GB 2.5" SATA drives successfully in machines that were made long before such larger capacity drives were available.

Replacement of the hard drive doesn't even look all that hard compared to (let's say) an iBook. The 1.8" PATA socket seems to be a standard.

OK - but do you know definitively that the MBA/HDD model can at a later point have its HDD replaced with an SSD device by a simple 'switch' out ?

I haven't encountered any user reports of third-party SSD upgrades. In theory possible, but a more likely option I'd have thought would be third-party protocols to swap the 1.8" PATA.

I just got mine tonight!
Amazing!!!!
I used the program xslimmer and monolinguual to remove fat binary and
extra languages and got up to 43G with iwork installed
I removed garage band and idvd
I figure this should be plenty of space left over for essential data
non essential data i keep on my other computers.
does anyone know if you can uses a usb flash drive to store non essentials such as itunes library
or other data? I have seen 16g flash usb high speed

does anyone know if you can uses a usb flash drive to store non essentials such as itunes library
or other data? I have seen 16g flash usb high speed

I don't see why not. I have my /Users resident on a separate disk spindle from my boot disk Volume in order to keep my boot drive well and truly locked down to fit onto a small 74 GB WD Raptor 10K disk spindle in my PM G5.

In Leopard Apple has made it easy to have user homes located on different spindles to the boot drive. See Accounts Pref panel and unlock and highlight an account and then Right Click and select Advanced Options...

I mistakenly thought this comment regarding low power use would translate into cool power. All MBA's run hot and the fan cranks. The SSD is no better than the HDD when it comes to quiet operation due to fan sound. All MBA's run hot. It still is a sweet machine. Just wish I had the grand back.

And low power would also result in long battery. Don't expect more than 3 hours.
It still is a sweet machine.