Intel is developing its own take on the mini-tablet, with a new ultra-mobile PC platform to be announced at this week's Intel Developer Forum in Beijing. The big surprise? It's based on Linux. In the meantime, Intel announced new details of its forthcoming Santa Rosa PC platform, including a significant revision of the Core 2 Duo chip.
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Member since:2005-07-08
That's a good reason. I've also been planning a nifty AppleTV mod that involves replacing the HDD with a CF card and using it as an LTSP client with cachefs on the CF to speed access its NFS volumes on the terminal server. But this is caching a network resource, where flash should be a strong performer.
Flash caches are also popular amongst the SPCR crowd, since the sound of a hard drive spinning up is enough to make them cry. They like to hear the sound of their own digestive system over their computer.
Member since:2005-07-24
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Flash caches are also popular amongst the SPCR crowd, since the sound of a hard drive spinning up is enough to make them cry. They like to hear the sound of their own digestive system over their computer.
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True. But I've always figured that most of them need a life more than they a flash cache. ;-)
Computers making "computer sounds" is a time honored tradition dating back to the original Star Trek series, and Forbidden Planet before that.
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One advantage of a flash cache is that it eliminates the need for the drive to spin up every 10 minutes (by default) in laptop mode, while eliminating the danger of losing data while in laptop mode, in the event of an unexpected power off.
That's more important to me on a mobile device than the speed issues.