The latest release of light laptops are now using solid-state hard drives. Macbook Air and even the Asus Eee Pc 107 laptop are now using these type of drives.
Solid state drives, which use flash memory, are significantly more expensive than laptops with hard drives.
But with no moving parts, unlike hard disk drives, they’re also considered more reliable and rugged, boot up more quickly and can offer longer battery life.
Flash memory is already widely used in smaller devices like digital music players, cell phones, GPS units and cameras.
Flash-based players are quick to boot up, and don’t face the risk of skipping or getting damaged as easily as players with hard drives.
Hard disk drives use rotating, magnetic platters to read, write and store data. Flash-based solid state drives are made up of chips, which are less volatile.
In the past year, several notebooks in the 2- to 4-pound range using flash-based solid state drives have been released by companies such as Dell, Toshiba and Sony. Prices range from $2,100 to $3,400.
source: MSNBC
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