Upgrade your Eee PC with addon SSD chips

Dan Ackerman | Jul 30, 2008

Love your Eee PC but hate its skimpy 4GB-20GB of SSD storage? Our most recent Eee PC, the 9-inch Eee 901, had a 12GB SSD chip (you can get 20GB in the Linux version), but even that makes it hard to install apps or store photos, music, and so on. The new 10-inch Eee PC will sport up to 40GB of SSD storage, but we're already talking about a US$699 laptop there.

As an alternative, memory maker Buffalo is working on 32GB and 64GB SSD chips that can plug right into the PCI-E slot on the Eee's motherboard (which is easily accessible under a panel on the laptop's bottom).

The chips are coming in September; expect to pay around US$150 for the 32GB version and US$300 for the 64GB version. These will no doubt be followed by even larger, cheaper versions down the road.

We've news as well that ASUS has a roadmap for yet more Eee PCs to come.

Via CNET Crave

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