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Flash Drives in Future Apple Laptops?

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the shock-proof-storage dept.

danscript writes "Samsung hopes that falling prices for flash-memory chips will mean solid-state memory can eventually replace hard-disk drives in Apple PowerBooks and iBooks as well as other devices, Macworld UK is reporting. The benefits? - silent; less power; reliable and faster."

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  1. Flash by Zlib+pt · · Score: 5, Funny

    "I'm sorry sir. You can only install OSX 10 times. Then you ran out of read/write operations"

    1. Re:Flash by advocate_one · · Score: 4, Funny
      IIRC the numbers are good enough that they would probably live as long if not longer than your average laptop HDDs.

      the only people who might possibly run into the write limit would be Gentoo users...

      --
      Donald 'Duck' Dunn: We had a band powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline.
  2. Re:extra bonus by rokzy · · Score: 4, Funny

    who is booting a Mac 1000 times?

    you're obviously a Windows user.