Laptops that have the new drive would start becoming available in the first half of 2007. SanDisk has said that it would add about $600 to the cost of a new laptop.
Another benefit is low power consumption. Machines that use the new flash drive will consume only half of what a hard drive would require.
Real world tests show that a fully loaded Vista laptop boots in about half the time it takes with a standard hard drive.
Posted By: Steve Wiseman on Thursday, January 04, 2007
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