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+ - Will PCIe flash become common in laptops, desktops?->

Submitted by Lucas123
Lucas123 writes "With Apple announcing that it is now using PCIe flash in its MacBook Air and it has plans to offer it in its Mac Pro later this year, some are speculating that the high-speed peripheral interface may become the standard for higher-end consumer laptops and workplace systems. "It's coming," said Joseph Unsworth, research vice president for NAND Flash & SSD at Gartner. The Mac Pro with PCIe flash is expected to exceed 1GB/sec throughput, twice the speed of SATA III SSDs. Apple claims the new MacBook Mini got a 45% performance boost from it's PCIe flash. AnandTech has the Air clocked in at 800MB/s. Next year, Intel and Plextor are expected to begin shipping PCIe cards based on the new NGFF specification. Plextor's NGFF SSD measures just 22mm by 44mm in size and connects to a computers motherboard through a PCIe 2.0 x2 interface. Those cards are smaller than today's half-height expansion cards and offer 770MB/s read and 550MB/s write speeds."
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+ - Flawed Defenses of Surveillance: 4 Responses->

Submitted by privacyprof
privacyprof writes "President Obama and others have been making flawed arguments about the government surveillance programs that recently came to light. They argue that the phone numbers and meta data isn't really sensitive, that these programs must remain totally secret to be effective, and that people shouldn't be concerned if they have nothing to hide. Professor Daniel Solove tackles arguments like these in his recent blog post."
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Comment: Re:What do I really want? (Score 1) 591

by mcl630 (#43363817) Attached to: If I could change what's "typical" about typical laptops ...

Faster boot times. Sure, with SSD I can boot to the Win7 desktop in about 30 seconds, but now that I'm used to that, it's an eternity (My nexus 10 takes over a minute, though...)

Instant on without being pre booted.

Partly facetious, partly serious.

Win7 on an SSD shouldn't take that long. Mine takes less than 10 seconds to get to the login screen and maybe 3 seconds from login to usable desktop.

Heck, my other box with a HDD and Win8 only takes 40 seconds to get to the desktop (and that's with Win8's Fast Startup option turned off).

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