Samsung's 128GB SSD will be demonstrated in a notebook PC -write speed of 70MB/s and a read speed of 100MB/s

[LuKreme]

On 7-Jan-2008, at 23:35, John Musbach wrote:
> On Jan 7, 2008 11:23 AM, Kevin Callahan <kcall at mac.com> wrote:
>> Samsung's 128GB SSD will be demonstrated in a notebook PC at CES  
>> 2008 in its
>> Semiconductor Product Showcase, Room N236, at the Las Vegas  
>> Convention
>> Center. It offers a write speed of 70MB/s and a read speed of 100MB/ 
>> s. It
>> also offers a 3.0 gigabit-per-second SATA II interface and low power
>> consumption (c.0.5-Watts in active mode).
>
> This is fabulous, if Apple were to use this as the storage medium for
> their ultraslim macbook then it might just become a possible purchase
> for me (this and if they have some kind of at least external optical
> drive available for purchase with the macbook)

Well this drive is brand new, and I doubt it's in the new slimbook, if  
that in fact exists.  Most likely it is a smaller flash drive, around  
32GB or so.  However, it bodes well for the future.

I expect that the slimbook will have a firewire port and a USB2 port  
for attaching any peripherals, whether they be external drives,  
optical drives, or even TDM and attaching to another Mac.

I suspect that any Macintosh slimbook will be targeted at people who  
already have a Mac, so that, for example, it is setup to 'dock' and  
synch much like a iPod. In fact, it would not be all that bad if  
instead of firewire/usb it just had a dock connecter and the way to  
install software is through a dock and sync process.

I'd be quite happy with something that had a decent resolution screen  
(maybe twice the size of the iphone or larger), touch capabilities, no  
drives, and a slide-out keyboard in the new ultra-slim form factor.   
If it was the size of one of those keyboards (the screen, I mean) that  
would be spectacular.

It has to have a keyboard though.  The touch keyboard on the iTouch/ 
iPhone is quite nice, but I can't see using it for typing a lot.  For  
example, this email.

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