Apple and LG plan Flash Laptops

Lucas123 writes "An article in Computerworld states that Apple and LG each plan to launch new laptops — one that's supposed to ship this month — with hybrid disk drives. The new drives are like hybrid cars in that the NAND flash memory works in conjunction with the spinning disk, kicking in data that can be cached like portions of the operating system, which can make for much faster boot up and resume times."

Sweet

[danpsmith]

Let me be the first to say:

<borat>Nice</borat>

Re:OK Sure

[tak amalak]

Oh, and can I be the first to coin the term "Flashtops"?

hybrid

[mastershake_phd]

The new drives are like hybrid cars

So they get 50mpg?

Re:OK Sure

[maxume]

It's really too bad. If they had access to the source, they could totally change the way that OSX was paging, in order to work better with swell new hardware.

Real purpose

[reydelamirienda]

So now the OS will go in a big flash drive as if it was some kind of firmware (you don't change the os very often, so flash life is not a problem) and leave the spinning disk to what really matters: pr0n!

Re:OK Sure

[FSWKU]

Oh, and can I be the first to coin the term "Flashtops"?

I think that term is reserved for the ones already using Sony batteries.

Re:OK Sure

[Trailer Trash]

....people a lot smarter than the average SlashDot reader....

I hear they're also taller than the average midget...

Re:We've already got one!

[the darn]

You have just missed a Monty Python reference. Please turn in your Slashdot card, as well as any and all other nerd paraphernalia.

Re:drives are like hybrid cars

[operagost]

Ooh! Let me try...

I upgraded to Vista, which is like kicking myself in the balls.
I started playing World of Warcraft, which is like smoking crack (but less socially acceptable).

Re:Warranty?

[jusdisgi]

The new drives are like hybrid cars in that the NAND flash memory works in conjunction with the spinning disk...

Oh...so that's how hybrid cars work...

Re:drives are like hybrid cars

[Eccles]

Cars already boot instantaneously.

You've never owned a British car then, I take it.

Eureka!

[Anonymous Coward]

Putting swap on a RAM disk, eh...? That totally isn't totally redundant!