"The Vaio UX90 will come with 16GB of flash memory storage in place of the 30GB hard drive on the original model. It will cost around $1805, or about $345 more expensive than the disk-based model, and go on sale in Japan on July 3."
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| willywilly Member  Activated Member 662 Posts 2/05 |  Posted - Jun 30 2006 : 2:10PMPCWorld.com article on Sony Vaio "Sony will replace hard disks with flash memory when it launches a new model of its Vaio U laptop next week, it said today. [Link] |
| BigBobxxx Senior Member 2681 Posts 5/04 | Posted - Jun 30 2006 : 3:36PM "The Vaio UX90 will come with 16GB of flash memory storage in place of the 30GB hard drive on the original model. It will cost around $1805, or about $345 more expensive than the disk-based model, and go on sale in Japan on July 3." [Link] |
| willywilly Member Activated Member 662 Posts 2/05 | Posted - Jun 30 2006 : 3:42PM
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| BigBobxxx Senior Member 2681 Posts 5/04 | Posted - Jun 30 2006 : 3:59PM Plus it's double what a very good (and better equipped) laptop sells for nowadays. I'm sure it's very light and fast as all get out. [Link] |
| jrv Senior Member 1266 Posts 2/03 | Posted - Jul 1 2006 : 1:21AM One problem is that flash memory only has a limited number of lifetime write cycles, 100,000 or so as I recall. That's not a problem for a camera, but Windows is something else - it expects to scribble all over the disk, all the time. I'd wonder how long the warranty runs, and if it covers the flash memory simply wearing out within a year or two, or less... [Link] |
| croy Platinum Member Discovry 4574 Posts 3/04 | Posted - Jul 1 2006 : 5:12AM Some flash memory is only rated for 10K write cycles, though not this. Flash memory is better utilzed in those SCSI sticks. [Link] |
| Joey Starr Senior Member Still wanking after all these years. 8082 Posts 10/00 | Posted - Jul 1 2006 : 6:14AM From the Mac Rumors website : Apple Planning Ultra-Portable? [Link] |
| croy Platinum Member Discovry 4574 Posts 3/04 | Posted - Jul 1 2006 : 10:13PM [Link] |
| BigBobxxx Senior Member 2681 Posts 5/04 | Posted - Jul 1 2006 : 11:01PM [Link] |
| Joey Starr Senior Member Still wanking after all these years. 8082 Posts 10/00 | Posted - Jul 1 2006 : 11:09PM [Link] |
| croy Platinum Member Discovry 4574 Posts 3/04 | Posted - Jul 1 2006 : 11:11PM More likely somebody who wants to use a computer in a vehicle. There is a small professional market for that. Then again, it is also a way to keep the brats quiet as the SUV makes it through the rough roads of suburbia. [Link] |
morbidthoughts  All-Star Member Big cats scare me but... 3627 Posts 1/03 | Posted - Jul 1 2006 : 11:53PM [Link] |
| kataboom master blaster ad astra per aspera 995 Posts 6/03 | Posted - Jul 2 2006 : 3:08AM [Link] |
| Redish Poetic Moderator Long and Cursive road to the Ivory Pagoda in the province of Loraine 4076 Posts 12/03 | Posted - Jul 2 2006 : 3:23AM [Link] |
| croy Platinum Member Discovry 4574 Posts 3/04 | Posted - Jul 2 2006 : 4:13AM [Link] |
| BigBobxxx Senior Member 2681 Posts 5/04 | Posted - Jul 2 2006 : 8:49AM $849, $999, $1,023, $1,299 & $1,350 [Link] |
| Redish Poetic Moderator Long and Cursive road to the Ivory Pagoda in the province of Loraine 4076 Posts 12/03 | Posted - Jul 2 2006 : 8:49PM [Link] |
| morbidthoughts All-Star Member Big cats scare me but... 3627 Posts 1/03 | Posted - Jul 2 2006 : 9:02PM I do carry my computer in my backpack everywhere though. Add some more weight to the backpack for camera equipment or stacks of papers; and well, you get the drift. For my business travel needs, I care about battery life (my comp lasts around 4-5 hours on a regular battery), weight, and size dimensions (specifically for the plane trip), and then maybe the lcd (for presentation). I just need something that can run Office and Photoshop. Anything else is just a luxury. If I need speed and power, I use my desktop. [Link] |
| Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99 | Posted - Jul 3 2006 : 7:39AM [Link] |
| ShiWarrior Senior Member 1170 Posts 8/01 | Posted - Jul 3 2006 : 6:00PM
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| Unicorn Member 156 Posts 4/04 | Posted - Jul 4 2006 : 5:17PM I've heard of add in controller cards for desktops that allow you to drop in regular desktop DDR 400 or similar which is actually MUCH faster than a hard disck, Flash, on the other hand doesn't work the same way and gives up a LOT of speed and throughput for protection from power loss. I for one am curious to see how it goes. The disk has always been the limiting factor in a computer. [Link] |
| jrv Senior Member 1266 Posts 2/03 | Posted - Jul 4 2006 : 9:53PM I should have done the arithmetic: a 16 GB device is rated at 1.6 petabytes of writes via wear-leveling even at only 100,000 writes per cell. Since the design lifespan for a PC is usually about 1,250 work days that's 1.2 terabytes per day, so it's probably going to outlive the chassis fans anyway. If it needs to be faster just do more than one write at once, in parallel. That's already what's going on – it take more than a microsecond to program a single cell, but nobody has ever done that. They've always done at least 8 cells at once, and I suspect that modern memory cards do not less than 256 bits at once. The device in this case might well write as many as 2048 cells at once. I would not be at all surprised to see it beat rotating magnetic drives in sequential read and write performance.[Link] |
| kataboom master blaster ad astra per aspera 995 Posts 6/03 | Posted - Jul 15 2006 : 2:46AM [Link] |
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