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Fujitsu now focusing more of their efforts into putting SSDs into their notebook products:
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=6875
Give it another 18 to 24 months and we will see widespread adoption. |
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Sony's VAIO G Series Gets SSD Option
Brandon Hill (Blog) - April 10, 2007 10:10 AM
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=6852
Now, this is a true laptop.
| Quote: | | When the Sony VAIO G was first announced in November for the Japanese market, prices ranged $1,800 USD to $2,100 USD. The SSD option will set you back an additional $545 USD. |
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Apple looking to flash for notebooks:
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=197801483
I've been waiting for this since 1992! ...And TV whereever you go...where is this tech revolution everyone's talking about? The problem with investing inthe future is it takes soooo long to get there.
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The first hybrid drive is shipped:
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/7YbqtNErOi5ilr/Samsung-Achieves-Hybrid-Hard-Drive-Milestone.xhtml
This should also give a boost to the sales of Vista going forward.
| Quote: | Additionally, the drives use 70 percent to 90 percent less power than regular hard drives, an important factor for those who often run their laptops on batteries. Battery life is extended by about a half-hour, the company added.
"The MH80 also offers up to five times the reliability of traditional notebook PC hard drives," said Samsung. "As the drive's platters are idle 99 percent of the time, the MH80 eliminates the need for the hard disk to constantly spin whenever a computer is operating on battery power. As a result, the drive is much less susceptible to shock damage, resulting in less data loss and fewer needed repairs." |
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The next generation memory. Story: Intel to Sample Phase Change Memory This Year
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=6371
| Quote: | This week Intel privately shared parts of it roadmap for memory technologies through 2008. Revealed was that Intel’s progress on phase-change memory, shortened as usually PCM or PRAM, will soon be sampling to customers with mass production possible before the end of the year.
Phase-change memory positioned as a replacement for flash memory, as it has non-volatile characteristics, but is faster and can be scaled to smaller dimensions. Flash memory cells can degrade and become unreliable after as few as 10,000 writes, but PCM is much more resilient at more than 100 million write cycles. For these reasons, Intel believes that phase-change memory could one day replace DRAM.
“The phase-change memory gets pretty close to Nirvana,” said Ed Doller, CTO of Intel’s flash memory group. “It will start to displace some of the RAM in the system.” |
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HenryTo
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http://www.eetasia.com/ART_8800453683_499486_ac8a19ed200702.HTM
Flash has already replaced HDDs in many high-volume MP3 players. That fact caught the industry's attention when Apple Computer announced its flash-based iPod Nano and stopped producing its hard-drive-based iPod Mini. SanDisk's move is a sign that a similar shift could happen for a segment of the notebook market, according to some. In a nod to that possibility, market watcher International Data Corp. is about to hire its first analyst to focus on flash drives. |
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San Disk solid state hard drive showcased at the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas:
http://www.anandtech.com/tradeshows/showdoc.aspx?i=2905&p=4
Uttely impressive.
This and the fact that Vista is a memory hog should be a gift for memory makers in 2007. |
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Interesting. For me, though speed wasn't a factor. It's power, quiet, and data safety. Really allows a laptop to be a laptop--or something a kid could more reliably use.
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