On Sat, 2007-12-22 at 10:20 -0500, Robert G. Brown wrote: > > I personally hope they do it, although I do think that we're about to go > through yet another paradigm shift. With flash coming down to around > $10/GB or less wholesale in sizes up to 16 GB, I think we'll start > seeing pure flash-boot systems appear any day now. As in systems with > built-in 4 GB flash memory holding the basic OS installation, systems > with 8 GB flash memory holding the OS and several GB of userspace. A > whole new kind of thin.
http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=24&l2=0&l3=0&l4=0&model=1907&modelmenu=1 A friend has the all black model. He brought it forth in the pub the other night, to the universal admiration of assembled geeks. Shiny. Nice. No wi-fi in the Jerusalem Tavern to test it with though: http://www.stpetersbrewery.co.uk/london/default.htm at 300 years old the electric light is a new-fangled invention. Maybe a bit too late for the North Pole order tracking system to get it into the sleigh loading bill for your neck of the woods though. And have you been a good boy this year? ps. if anyones interested, these are being rebadged by Research Machines in the UK, which are a major supplier to the schools market. _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
