Most solid state drives claim they can endure twenty or thirty gigabytes of writes, but recent tests have shown the limits often far exceed those numbers.
The processors, video cards and displays found in laptops are better than ever, but they're not the only innovations that impact the future of portable PCs.
Samsung ramped up production of its new SSD, which is featured in Apple's new Macbook Air. The XP941 features 1.4GB per second data read, and is super slim.
iMacs can now come with 256GB or 512GB flash storage instead of 1TB HDDs, as long as you're willing to pony up more cash than the computer's base price.