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Über ultraportables on distant horizon
Posted by: Matthew ElliottThu Jan 05 09:41:00 PST 2006
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We are still a few years away from seeing zero-spindle laptops, but later this year, Samsung, the leading manufacturer of NAND memory, and Microsoft will release a hybrid hard drive that uses NAND memory as a cache when the hard drive is idle. Samsung claims that this will extend battery life by 36 minutes. Having already developed a sore shoulder at this CES from lugging around my clunker of a laptop, I'd gladly trade it in for tiny ultraportable with solid-state memory. Perhaps that will be a reality at CES 2009.
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for a portable computer a 5GB flash hd is, for most uses plenty.
Seems to me most lok at a portable as a replacement for their desktop. And that is possible. But the need to take a computer to a field work site or a meeting or to work on some 'stuff' at a coffe shop, requires a mush smaller hd. One that can to the work of the monent not everything one can think of to do.
My Sony Viao 505 had a small hd -4gb I think, but, then it was a laptop replacemet, and it served as an office based Stock trading platform,and it still does, when my big computer has problems from my house.
If I start putting videos and big pitures on the hd it will fill up quickly. But even then if one limits the info to the job of the day 5gb is plenty.
Advantages- Very small, lightweight (small battery), truely portable computer.
Like my old Libretto 50CT with 1/2 the weight. The Lib is 8"x4"x1" and weight 1.7 lbs. It has a 5"x3.7" screen and a very typeable keyboard. I would think it could be remade with a 5.5"x3.7" screen, a .5 thickness and get the weight down to 1 lb.
That would be a portable computer that one could and would take anywhere. Add an instant on like the PDA's have and you have something people will carry around and use.
just my rambelings Kevin Smith
Seems to me most lok at a portable as a replacement for their desktop. And that is possible. But the need to take a computer to a field work site or a meeting or to work on some 'stuff' at a coffe shop, requires a mush smaller hd. One that can to the work of the monent not everything one can think of to do.
My Sony Viao 505 had a small hd -4gb I think, but, then it was a laptop replacemet, and it served as an office based Stock trading platform,and it still does, when my big computer has problems from my house.
If I start putting videos and big pitures on the hd it will fill up quickly. But even then if one limits the info to the job of the day 5gb is plenty.
Advantages- Very small, lightweight (small battery), truely portable computer.
Like my old Libretto 50CT with 1/2 the weight. The Lib is 8"x4"x1" and weight 1.7 lbs. It has a 5"x3.7" screen and a very typeable keyboard. I would think it could be remade with a 5.5"x3.7" screen, a .5 thickness and get the weight down to 1 lb.
That would be a portable computer that one could and would take anywhere. Add an instant on like the PDA's have and you have something people will carry around and use.
just my rambelings Kevin Smith
by kmsmith (See profile) - January 11, 2006 8:52 AM PST
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