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To: NHP who wrote (21410)	1/7/2002 6:31:41 PM
From: Ausdauer	Respond to of 60323

NHP, Sorry it took so long to get back. I was in Europe over Christmas and intentionally limited my PC access time while on vacation there. Regarding flash memory hard drives in PC's. I posted a few months back that one of my biggest disappointments with my wife's new desktop is the noise the HD and fan produce while operating. One of the potential benefits of a flash based drive would be power consumption and heat generation. I am not sure what type of gains could be achieved. (Some articles I have seen indicate the CPU is the main offender.) I am also not sure of flash access times as compared to a hard disk. Clearly cost is a limitation as well. I also think about the long boot up times for laptops and wonder why laptop makers haven't tried to follow the lead of the handheld gadget manufacturers. "Instant On" is a big plus. This is achieved with some mixture of DRAM and flash. A laptop that could boot up on command and then just sip current from the battery would be welcomed. Again, cost is probably the major constraint at this juncture. It will be interesting to see what new applications are found as flash prices continue to benefit from manufacturing efficiencies like SNDK has championed. Aus