“SanDisk said Monday that Windows Vista is not optimized for solid state drives, delaying the delivery of optimized drives until next year,” Brooke Crothers reports for CNET.
Crothers reports, “Solid state drives (SSDs) are used instead of hard disk drives in select high-end notebook PCs today such as the Apple MacBook Air and Toshiba Portege R500.”
MacDailyNews Take: Sounds like Toshiba’s SOL then, huh? Unless you like limiting yourself to running a bloated upside-down and backwards OS that’s not optimized for your storage hardware while concurrently prohibiting yourself access to the world’s most advanced operating system along with reams of best-in-class applications. Get a Mac – you can even slum it with Windows when you want to see how poorly you can make your SSD perform.
Crothers continues, “Speaking during SanDisk’s second-quarter earnings conference call, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Eli Harari said that Windows Vista will present a special challenge for solid state drive makers. ‘As soon as you get into Vista applications in notebook and desktop, you start running into very demanding applications because Vista is not optimized for flash memory solid state disk,’ he said. This is due to Vista’s design. ‘The next generation controllers need to basically compensate for Vista shortfalls,’ he said.”
MacDailyNews Take: Great. Bastardize your hardware design in order to compensate for Microsoft’s ineptitude. Do we all get to use these drives that will offer controllers that are designed around Vista’s shortfalls? Oh, the excitement.
Crothers continues, “‘Unfortunately, (SSDs) performance in the Vista environment falls short of what the market really needs and that is why we need to develop the next generation, which we’ll start sampling end of this year, early next year,’ Harari said. Harari said this challenge alone is putting SanDisk behind schedule. ‘We have very good internal controller technology, as you know…That said, I’d say that we are now behind because we did not fully understand, frankly, the limitations in the Vista environment,’ he added.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: For what, exactly, is Windows Vista optimized, besides lining a convicted monopoly abuser’s pockets and forcing hardware purchases on people who haven’t yet figured out that what they really want is an Apple Mac?
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Davis Machead” for the heads up.]
“The Lenvo Thinkpad beats the MacBook Air soundly”
can you say “opinion” i knew you could……
if you go looking at spec sheets, turns out the thinkpad weighs more, is thicker, and the low end costs $1000 more than the entry MBA.
….so it does beat it soundly in price.
and, the final smack down, does the thinkpad run OS X? then it is just a pathetic paper weight.
It is not hard for Apple to stay ahead of the competition when the competition is so stupid. I tried to install a webcam on Vista the other day and could not get it to work because of the Vista Firewall. It worked instantly when I plugged the same camera into my Mac. You see my point?
Vista is one of those little gifts to Apple that just keeps giving… month after month… year after year!
Billy Gates should be proud…his former team has single handily turned a market over to their competitor, i.e Apple!
@shen
Don’t beat up on paperweights shen. Thank kind of rudeness is not accepted here.
“did MS ship a gold master floppy stack?”
Yes, and his name is Bill.
It’s important that developers pickup Microsoft’s slack. Perpetuating poor coding is essential to the relationship between an enabler and a company with a codependency problem.
“his former team has single handily turned a market over to their competitor”
Yes, and Apple just took advantage of it and raced up to 3% share worldwide leaving Microsoft with only about 92%! It’s a bloodbath!
Excellent take, MDN. I agree. Now that Macs can run Windows natively, buying anything else is like buying half a computer.
Did I just read someone stating that the Lenovo Thinkpad soundly beats the MacBook Air? WTF?? In what sense could this be true? Cheap plastic construction? Loose keys? Ugly, soviet-issue design? Windows Vista suckage? Yeah, the Lenovo Thinkpad is tops in those departments for sure.
In other news, Kia Motor Company “soundly beats” Mercedes.
I’m shocked. Just shocked!
Vista isn’t optimized.
I told a Windows expert that Vista was slow. He smiled and said it was written for faster hardware, so as the hardware got faster, the improvement would increase. I said, that’s exactly what we would see with badly written code. So how can we tell the difference?
His smile evaporated.
Vista was designed for Microsoft’s partners, not its customers. The idea was to motivate people to buy new computers to get Vista’s wondrous new features, causing an increase in sales that benefited Microsoft’s partners. The hardware would deliver the performance, so optimization wasn’t terribly necessary.
It didn’t work.
The best thing that ever happened to Apple was the Microsoft Partner program.
So Sandisk is spending all kinds of money because Shitsa sucks AND will redesign their drives (probably making them slower in the process) in an attempt to work better with Shitsa?
Great strategy, Dandisk!
@hoovercar,
You’re giving the PC guys too much credit. More like 10% in my book.
DailyTech calls SanDisk on their scapegoating…
http://www.dailytech.com/SanDisk+CEO+Vista+is+Not+a+Friend+to+Our+SSDs/article12458.htm
It’s not that our product sucks, it’s that Vista r t3h d3pH1L!
Whatever…
7 Deadly Sins of Windows:
1.Lust-Allows lots of porn malwares
2.Gluttony-consumes too much hardware resources
3.Greed-is full of DRM to appease greedy RIAA and MPAA
4.SLoth-is just barely good enouhg for undemanding users
5.Wrath-Punishes users by forcing them to use windows
6.Envy-Wants what Mac OS X has
7.Pride-thinks itself as pretty and “innovative”
Thanks to ../. for this.
The ONLY thing Vista is optimized for is SUCKING.
Vista sucks, everyone knows it, yet instead of fixing the issues, or even trying to fix them, the rest of the world is expected to rotate around it?? Wake up!
Vista’s optimized for 5 1/4 floppies… not those newfangled 3 1/2 thingies…