Neither of my test machines used the energy-saving, but costly, solid-state drives that are slowly replacing mechanical hard disks.

我用来测试的电脑没有使用固态硬盘。这种节能却昂贵的硬盘正逐渐替代机械硬盘。

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But solid state drives (SSDs), which replace hard disks with memory chips to store your data, are much rarer and newer and still can add significantly to the price of even a high-end laptop.

但固态硬盘(SSD)的确是新生事物，在高端笔记本的价格中仍可能占很大比例。

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Chrome will run only on computers that use flash memory solid state drives instead of conventional hard drives. It's a bold approach.

Chrome将只能在使用闪存式固态硬盘的计算机上运行，而不支持传统硬盘，这是个大胆的举措。

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Examples: selling solid-state hard drives on certain notebooks, or offering laptops preloaded with a Linux operating system called Ubuntu.

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Those newfangled devices rely almost exclusively on solid-state hard drives, and smartphones outsold PCs for the first-time last year.

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Intel is introducing a new series of solid-state hard drives that offer up to 600 GB in capacity, CNet reports, as its chip geometrics shrink to just 25 nanometers.

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