Do you think an SSD would help in a Netbook?

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I use a Netbook to watch TV and Movies on planes when I travel. Its OK but it cant decode Hi-Def at all and takes forever too boot up.

I was wondering if the problem is the 4500rpm laptop drive.

What do you guys think? Worth trying or go buy a new one? My eye's keep wandering to the Mac Book Air's since it can replace both my Netbook and my Mac Book Pro.

Its got a 1.7ghz Atom and 2 gigs of Ram.
 
well a faster hard drive wouldn't hurt but if you're streaming you also have to consider how fast your internet connection is. If you have 3g it's not really ideal for that purpose.
 
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i'm sure it would definitely speed up the boot process and cause video to run much smoother (question is how much smoother i guess and is it worth the cost).
 
An SSD drive would speed up your computers hard disk seek time but wouldn't help much when streaming video since that all depends on your internet connection, ram and processor speed. If you do buy an SSD hard drive (they are expensive) make sure it has trim.
 
I use a Netbook to watch TV and Movies on planes when I travel. Its OK but it cant decode Hi-Def at all and takes forever too boot up.

I was wondering if the problem is the 4500rpm laptop drive.

What do you guys think? Worth trying or go buy a new one? My eye's keep wandering to the Mac Book Air's since it can replace both my Netbook and my Mac Book Pro.

Its got a 1.7ghz Atom and 2 gigs of Ram.

It will not make a difference. The bottleneck is that Atom CPU trying to decode HD video, not getting the compressed video from the disk to the CPU.

I have a 13" MacBook Air, and it plays 720p/1080p stuff just fine. Newer (since ~2008/9) models offload the work to the GPU.
 
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