Flash Drives in Future Apple Laptops?

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."

Comments

Re:Reliable? Don't think so.

[laffer1]

You must not have an Apple Macintosh then. Run top sometime in OSX.. trust me.. it uses a lot of swap. My computer (ibook g4) uses a lot of swap because it does not have enough ram (256mb is not enough for 10.4...) Apple never puts enough ram in any of their products and therefore these products will need swap. My wife has 1.25 gb of ram in her dual g4 and even that uses swap space. Its how modern operating systems work!

Its NOT a freebsd kernel.. thats the most common mistake people make. Its a freebsd userland but its a Mach kernel! FreeBSD is a monolithic kernel! I know because i have machines running both here now. Look at the source code to darwin and you'll see C++ code in the kernel.. now look at the freebsd kernel.. note its C code (well assembly in both too). Its not the same kernel. They did use some freebsd code in their kernel for memory management and network related things. Thats different than being the SAME kernel.

After these mistakes its hard to believe your other stats at face value. I'll certainly research flash drives, and i'm sure their better now than in the past. Hard drives are better than in the past. As many have pointed out, i'm not sure about speed though.

Also, don't ask why i'm on slashdot.. thats silly. Just because I dont' believe that flash drives are glorious pieces of engineering doesn't mean i dont' belong on slashdot.. thats a serious Troll comment.