<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Ron Lauzon <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rlauzon@gmail.com">rlauzon@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
On 01/26/2010 03:09 PM, Bob Kline wrote:<br>
> What I find strange is that most of<br>
> them come with 160GB drives now.<br>
> I'd thought the trend would be to<br>
> a few GB of RAM, and maybe 16GB<br>
> of flash. All for fast bootup, and<br>
> ruggedness. For portable use one<br>
> doesn't need a hard drive IMHO. And<br>
> I'm sure they eat up a lot of the cost<br>
> of the devices now.<br>
><br>
<br>
Actually, the cost of a 160GB hard drive is very cheap compared to 32GB<br>
of flash.<br>
<br>
My System 76 Starling netbook was only $350. That included the extended<br>
life battery.<br>
<br>
Compare that to my Archos 5 Internet Tablet, with 32 GB of flash. It<br>
cost only slightly less than the netbook - but no keyboard and a 5"<br>
screen as opposed to the 10" screen on my netbook.<br>
<br>
--<br>
Ron Lauzon - rlauzon at acm dot org<br> <br></blockquote><div>Yowzer. 16GB and below have seen</div><div>big price drops. 32GB haven't yet.</div><div><br></div><div>But Puppy Linux is less than 100MB,</div><div>
perhaps compressed. It does all the</div><div>common things: seamonkey browzer,</div><div>scanning, e-mail. One can sit in front</div><div>of the TV and surf and send e-mail.</div><div><br></div><div>Here again, it all depends on one's needs,</div>
<div>but for me 32B would not be useful, and </div><div>160GB certainly not.</div><div><br></div><div> -- Bob</div><div> </div></div><br>