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Originally Posted by wodin
Yes but I'm thinking in terms of a 32 GB flash partition for the OS and applications to allow for rapid boot up and application loading and a much larger mechanical data partition (>100 GB) for all those ebooks and pics and movies and music and ....
32 Gb flash is relatively inexpensive, and in fact was/is the only storage on some netbooks like the early Asus's and the Asus T91. Which, by the way, is why I'm not interested in a T91; not enough storage. Now if it had a second mechanical drive ...
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"Relatively inexpensive" is relative. PCs and laptops are commodities, with commodity level pricing. A laptop using a 32GB flash drive for OS/Applications and a standard HD for data will cost a fair bit more than one using only HD. Why should the customer pay the higher price? Unless you can provide a simple and compelling reason, they won't.
I passed on early ASUS models for a different reason. Linux and a flash drive was fine, but screen size wasn't. I wanted a 10" screen, and early ASUS models didn't have them.
The model for the netbook assumed it would primarly access the net, and your data would live elsewhere. For the purposes for which I'd use it, that's fine. I wouldn't need a lot of local storage, and if I needed more, a USB 2.0 external drive would be the ticket.
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Dennis