TFOT=The Future of Things. I couldn’t fit it all on a one line header!
They have a great article on solid state drives. It includes an interview with Samsung and its a, sorry, ‘must read.’
the most significant performance advantage comes from its latency feature – less than 1 millisecond; roughly 10-15x faster than a hard disk drive.
UMPC’s will have to drop the HDD in 2007 if they’re going to meet the battery life challenge. I’d like to see flash drives for the operating system and 1.8 spindles as a second drive for data.
I haven’t got any details on pricing but I’d guess that an 8GB drive isn’t going to be prohibitively expensive now.
With LED backlighting and low power Wifi, maybe we’ll see the first 5w ultra mobile PC in 2007.
Steve.
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