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Technology Stocks : WDC/Sandisk Corporation -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: inaflash who wrote (33639)	9/30/2006 10:11:09 PM
From: Pam	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

No, not alone by any means, but every bit helps in the Ultralight category (and I mean full laptops that run Windows XP and hopefully Vista), where they strip every optional device (optical, etc.), the flash can definitely help. I envision the hard drive as a strippable device as well in a couple of years (external like optical). In this category, under 3 pound units are already available and some getting close to 2 pounds, and the drive towards lighter weight will continue. The trick is to provide enough function and power at an affordable cost. Here, every ounce cut somewhere means getting that much lighter or adding a slightly larger battery for a few extra minutes. Saving a few watts here means a few more minutes there. I think, as soon as s/w starts getting distributed on Sandisk's OTP cards, we can get rid of CD/DVD drives just like we got rid of floppy-disk drives. Why don't we just have a memory card reader instead, in the UMPCs? Normally a USB port itself should be enough but a memory-card reader comes in handy because one can easily transfer pic's from different DSC's and hopefully videos from DVR's down the road and also all sorts of data from a whole slew of gizmo's floating around that use nand flash memory cards. I do not know why this hasn't happened yet? Hopefully it will start happening next year!

To: inaflash who wrote (33639)	9/30/2006 10:15:40 PM
From: inaflash	Respond to of 60323

Here's another leading edge ultraportable comparison: Fujitsu LifeBook Q2010 "The bad: Horrid battery life with standard three-cell battery; very expensive; small keyboard; no optical drive without a dock; no WWAN." "The notebook weighs in at 2.3 pounds" "with the 0.5-pound, high-capacity battery, the LifeBook Q2010 turned in the second best time we've ever recorded in the labs: a remarkable 7 hours, 38 minutes on battery power." "The record-holding Lenovo ThinkPad X60s goes all day long with 8 hours, 16 minutes of battery life." reviews.cnet.com Now, can some reviewer redo these test with SSHD?