We already told you about Intel’s new ultramobile SSDs, but their tiny size means high cost and low capacities, only up to 16GB. That’s why the company promised SATA-II SSDs in the 1.8″ and 2.5″ sizes with capacities up to 160GB, with read and write speeds exceeding Samsung’s 100MB/s and 70MB/s, respectively. Best of all, Intel says its goal is to drive down the currently exorbitant prices of solid-state storage to something less punitive, predicting two subsequent 50% drops in 2009 and 2010. [Daily Tech]
Timetraveler
March 12, 2008 at 2:58 AM
I’ve been waiting for this since the early 1990′s when I used a fantastic HP Omnibook 430. It had a small 8 MB PCMCIA card as a hard drive. The operating system and programs were on separate cards. I could turn this laptop off and then turn it on the next day and it would be at exactly the same spot as when I turned it off. It ran on 4 double A batteries. So yes, it is about time we recover some of the capabilities of the early HP Omnibooks. The SSd’d will definitely help.
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