Sweet laptop

[Chris Maunder]

Toshiba R500 world's lightest, thinnest notebook. 64GB flash hard drive...[^] Oops! <bang> it <bang> looks like I've <BANG> accidently dropped my <bang> old <bang, bang...BANG> laptop and <ba-crunch> will need to buy a new one. What a pity.

cheers, Chris Maunder

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[Christian Graus]

Cool - I saw that Dell have a 32GB flash hard drive, which just seemed too little to do anything with. I've been thinking about a Mac notebook, on the basis that it runs all PC software anyhow, as well as the Mac stuff.

Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ "I am working on a project that will convert a FORTRAN code to corresponding C++ code.I am not aware of FORTRAN syntax" ( spotted in the C++/CLI forum )

[carboncoder]

Very cool... Maybe we should start giving these away! Next2Friends (^) --> Free new Dell laptop every 30 days.

[keencomputer]

What is read write speed for the Flash drive. I think they are slow.

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[S Senthil Kumar]

Why would they be slower than hard drives? After all, there is no mechanical movement involved, so it should be much faster. More reliable too.

Regards Senthil [MVP - Visual C#] _____________________________ My Blog | My Articles | My Flickr | WinMacro

[soap brain]

Ooh, a big logo! Sounds pretty sweet!

It was only natural that when all my yo-yo strings finally broke I learned how to solve a rubik's cube over a weekend. I can now solve it in less than two minutes. :)

[si618]

Or perhaps this might tickle your fancy...

[Paul Watson]

That is one nice looking laptop.

regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa

Shog9 wrote:

And with that, Paul closed his browser, sipped his herbal tea, fixed the flower in his hair, and smiled brightly at the multitude of cute, furry animals flocking around the grassy hillside where he sat coding Ruby on his Mac...

[Hesbon Ongira]

Takes time for data to pass through (input/output) serial/usb ports. That is why it takes time to write into the flashdrives.

Regards, Hesbon.

[l a u r e n]

hey paul hows ireland working for you? still hacking away at the project? still loving the guiness and the green-eyed girls? missing home yet? :)

"there is no spoon" {me}

[S Senthil Kumar]

Does the article say the flash memory is read/written via USB/serial interface? I'm pretty sure it will IDE/SATA or something better, why would they use an USB port for internal storage?

Regards Senthil [MVP - Visual C#] _____________________________ My Blog | My Articles | My Flickr | WinMacro

[Paul Watson]

Ah sure, all grand here. Keeping off the Guinness but having a good time all the same. I'd miss home if I wasn't hearing what a harsh winter they are having back home. Here it has been raining a lot but has been pretty mild and liveable. As for the girls her eyes are more sea-grey than green but I do love her :)

regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa

Shog9 wrote:

And with that, Paul closed his browser, sipped his herbal tea, fixed the flower in his hair, and smiled brightly at the multitude of cute, furry animals flocking around the grassy hillside where he sat coding Ruby on his Mac...

[Anna Jayne Metcalfe]

Not if it's a Sony. Quite a few of us have had them before, and we've learnt from experience. X|

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[realJSOP]

I wouldn't buy a Sony laptop. My next one might be a Lenovo, but whatever brand it is, it must be available with XP on it.

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[Mike Dimmick]

Flash memory is faster in seek time (very little latency in opening a new row), but magnetic storage is still faster in sustained bandwidth. SanDisk are now offering CompactFlash flash memory cards that allegedly provide 45MB/sec sequential read/write speeds - for $314.99 for 8GB. Seagate's Barracuda 7200.11 range has a quoted read/write sustained rate of 105MB/sec for a 7200rpm drive. The problem is the 4.1ms average latency. These numbers might be slightly fake, though, as Seagate's Cheetah 10K.7 10krpm SCSI drives, for enterprise use, show a 39 - 80MB/sec sustained transfer rate (according to the data sheet). These are commonly used with the caches switched off. You get best performance out of a hard disk if you use it sequentially, rather than randomly - track-to-track seek time is typically 0.2ms or so for reading. That's why defragmenting the hard drive can really help, for data that's actually read sequentially (it doesn't help for SQL Server database files much because they're read randomly, for example, while the transaction log benefits hugely from having a dedicated disk as it's 99% sequential writes, the log only being read from when a rollback or recovery is required).

Stability. What an interesting concept. -- Chris Maunder

[Ryan Roberts]

Mike Dimmick wrote:

still faster in sustained bandwidth

Not for 2.5" laptop drives it isn't.

[VE2]

Technology marches on, but doesn't flash memory have a finite number of erase/write cycles that is much less than a hard drive?

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[leckey 0]

You're not going to buy a Gateway? :((

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[Mark_Wallace]

carboncoder wrote:

Next2Friends (^) --> Free new Dell laptop every 30 days.

Could I interest you in some Amway wall polish?

[Mark_Wallace]

Be careful not to sneeze whilst you're using it.