Flash Drives => Ready for Prime Time !!!

[Nflight]

I think you will find that Terry, Blackheath, Beerknurd and their Electricity bill reduction plans will find this interesting. :blob3:

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=4962

[Evil-Dragon]

I bet boot time on those types of HDD's would be pretty quick. I would get one when the time comes (that is if i ever find a job between now and then)

[Beerknurd]

very interesting...

[Strongbow]

The company I just left, Fujitsu, had already released NAND Laptops in Japan but the prices are still way too high - expect them to drop in 12months or so before being realistic!

EDIT: and here's an old press release with the price difference (Ouch!) http://news.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/0,1000000091,39284092,00.htm

[gatekeeper53]

This is here already as most people have a flash drive in their pocket. I am glad to see that in 4 or 5 years we will all be having quieter machines due to this tech. What I have been waiting for is this:

http://uw.physics.wisc.edu/~himpsel/memory.html