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Apple and LG plan Flash Laptops

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the what-are-you-wearing-under-there dept.

Lucas123 writes "An article in Computerworld states that Apple and LG each plan to launch new laptops — one that's supposed to ship this month — with hybrid disk drives. The new drives are like hybrid cars in that the NAND flash memory works in conjunction with the spinning disk, kicking in data that can be cached like portions of the operating system, which can make for much faster boot up and resume times."

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  1. What "resume" time? by thinbits · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Either it's a Windows thing I don't understand, or "resume" means something that is not obvious. When I open my MacBook (and any PowerBook I've ever owned), it's usable almost instantaneously (within a second or two).

    Do Windows laptops not work this way (I've never used one)?

  2. Petrol fueled drives! cool! like Pear Trees! by fantomas · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "The new drives are like hybrid cars"

    w00t! Petrol fueled hard drives! but ecologically sound!

    oh. you didn't mean that. You just meant that you wanted people who didn't know what "hybrid" meant to have point of reference.

    Actually you meant "They are a bit like Pear Trees". As in, a hybrid...

    hmmm...