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wtallis on Feb 6, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Sony’s 2001 offer from Steve Jobs to run Mac OS on...

Well, it doesn't have to be a severe bottleneck in order for faster storage to be an advantage. If you've got two laptops with the same CPU and amount and speed of RAM, but one has a 30% faster SSD, then the latter will do a better job of keeping the CPU fully loaded.

valleyer on Feb 6, 2014 | [–]

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPU_bound>

halter73 on Feb 6, 2014 | [–]

Unless the 30% slower SSD can keep the CPU fully loaded since it's not the bottleneck.

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