[plug] [OT] Acer Lappy

[Senectus .]

On 5/25/05, Leon Brooks <leon at cyberknights.com.au> wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 May 2005 09:26, Senectus . wrote:
> > Samsung just announced solid state flash drives for laptops by the end
> > of the year.. (only 16 gig though).
> 
> > That should drop power requirements and increase speed substantially!
> 
> Dunno about the speed, unless the drive is internally cacheing and writing
> to several chips in parallel. The price of 16GB of flash is still kind of
> breath-taking, too.

But the price will come down as this tech (solid state hard drives)
becomes the norm..
Read times and throughput *should* crank.. and the limitation should
then be the bus..
Plus the fact that it's solid state.. should make it a lot harder
wearing and more resistant against droppage etc.
Personally I'm really looking forward to this.. cause hard drives have
always been the biggest bugbear for laptops..


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