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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."

2 of 114 comments (clear)

  1. pagefile by chasingporsches · · Score: 0, Redundant

    turn off your pagefile / swap partition and it should last a while. otherwise, i wouldn't give it more than a year.

  2. Re:Seek Time & Reduced Heat by Eideewt · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Flash memory and RAM aren't the same thing though. As far as I know, RAM doesn't have a limited number of writes, but flash is only guaranteed for a million or so.