Time's up for HDD PCs
Meteoric rise of SSDs means new laptops featuring HDD as their primary storage will be non-existent by the end of the year, analyst Context predicts

In less than 12 months, no new laptop will be sold in Western Europe with a hard disk drive (HDD) as its primary storage. That's according to analyst Context, whose figures show 93.3 per cent of new...
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