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Samsung Announces Solid State Laptop

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hug-him-and-squish-him-and-call-him-george dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Samsung has announced they'll be manufacturing solid-state laptops, with an eye for a June release in Korea. Everything you wanted from a laptop: faster boot times, quicker storage access, less noise, longer battery life. Laptop Logic has the story." From the article: "Now to the features of this laptop: Celeron M 1.2GHz, 12.1-inch screen, 512MB DDR2, Wireless LAN 802.11b/g, Digital Multimedia Broadcasting TV, and measuring 2.5 pounds. Price? $3,700 and only available in Korea in June."

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  1. Celeron M? by gibbonformayor · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I remember when I bought my Celeron M laptop and was dismayed to find that the only difference between a Celeron M and a Pentium M was cache size and the fact that the Celeron CAN'T CLOCK ITSELF DOWN to SAVE POWER. If you're shooting for lower power consumption among other things, shouldn't they use the Pentium M? In the same vein, higher on-die cache means fewer RAM accesses which means LOWER POWER CONSUMPTION. This in combination with eldavojohn's point seem to indicate they didn't *quite* think this thing through...maybe.

  2. Re:Seek Time & Reduced Heat by TheGreek · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Seek time for a 5400 laptop hard disk: ~ 12ms
    Seek time for a 7200 laptop hard disk: ~ 10ms
    Seek time for solid state hard disk: < 0.1ms

    Number of rewrites on solid state storage: ~1 million.
    Number of rewrites on a laptop hard disk: Until the drive mechanism dies.

    Hope you don't do a lot of swapping on your solid state flash hard drive.