No spin: Ars reviews the MacBook Air with solid state driveBenchmarks No, the SSD Air is not "instant-on." Unfortunately, it took 28.5 seconds to boot. Fortunately, that's still 12 seconds faster than the HDD model and 11.5 seconds faster than the Santa Rosa MacBook. It was still 2.5 seconds slower than the Santa Rosa MacBook Pro, however. We performed all the same benchmarks on our SSD model as we did on the HDD model, including Xbench, Cinebench, and ou
