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    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by usair, Aug 21, 2007.

  1. usair

    usair Notebook Guru

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    Now that a few notebooks are using

    SSD (solid state drive) instead of a

    hard drive AND with Vista using the

    flash drive as a hard drive too, I'm

    thinking that maybe the RAM and the

    hard drive will "merge" (the CPU using

    the SSD as its RAM) ... and why not

    imagining one of the duo or quad CPU

    used only for graphic ... that would

    leave us with no card, no RAM, no HD.


    I noticed that new flash MP3 players

    are cheaper that the old HD ones :D

    so ... maybe the next generation of

    notebook will all have SSD and Windows

    %$#     will use that as a big readyboost :confused:


    Amusingly, in the book Teleportation,

    David Darling talk of bank data transfer

    (optical only so far) technology result.

    (no data then)​
     
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  2. grateful

    grateful Notebook Evangelist

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    well in actuality I think readyboost would partially be useless other than categorization once SSD's hit mainstream, because they wont have to ration what is put in that category because everything will exist within it.....on the main drive anyway, but I agree with what you are saying

    basically you'll have storage space, several cores and controllers, not much else except spots to exchange
     
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  3. fabarati

    fabarati Frorum Obfuscator

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    Which option is too expensive now, maybe later?
     
    fabarati, Aug 21, 2007
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    Deliveryboy1989 Newbie

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    now i might be a little behind, but what exactly is a ssd?
    is it like a flash drive with like 36 gb on it?
     
    Deliveryboy1989, Aug 22, 2007
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  5. fabarati

    fabarati Frorum Obfuscator

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    Basicly yes. But It's geared towards being used as your main drive.

    SSD stands for Solid State Drive.
     
    fabarati, Aug 22, 2007
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    powerpack Notebook Prophet

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    Ah? SSD speed is what? Get rid of ram?
     
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    fabarati Frorum Obfuscator

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    It is not as fast as ram, but is MUCH faster than a HDD,
     
    fabarati, Aug 22, 2007
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    grateful, Aug 22, 2007
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