Samsung Announces Solid State Laptop 114
An anonymous reader writes "Samsung has announced they'll be manufacturing solid-state laptops, with an eye for a June release in Korea. Everything you wanted from a laptop: faster boot times, quicker storage access, less noise, longer battery life. Laptop Logic has the story." From the article: "Now to the features of this laptop: Celeron M 1.2GHz, 12.1-inch screen, 512MB DDR2, Wireless LAN 802.11b/g, Digital Multimedia Broadcasting TV, and measuring 2.5 pounds. Price? $3,700 and only available in Korea in June."
Celeron M? (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Seek Time & Reduced Heat (Score:3, Insightful)
Seek time for a 7200 laptop hard disk: ~ 10ms
Seek time for solid state hard disk: < 0.1ms
Number of rewrites on solid state storage: ~1 million.
Number of rewrites on a laptop hard disk: Until the drive mechanism dies.
Hope you don't do a lot of swapping on your solid state flash hard drive.