At 12:16 PM -0600 01/05/2006, srn wrote:
http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20060105A5020.html
(article talks about a rumour that future/soon Apple laptops will use Intel's NAND flash memory as a mass-storage device instead of a traditional HD)
Tis a logical progression of technology. The traditional electromechanical HD is a fragile, slow, power-sucking, heat-making brick tied to the computer's forehead. Getting rid of it is a Good Thing.
I remember buying a sweet RAM disk a few years back... It was 128 MB, for only $280,000!!!!
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