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Posted by Rod in Apple at 8:28 am on Tuesday, 20 November 2007

Reports rumours of an ultralight NAND based MacBook for January.

Report: Ultralight MacBook at Macworld

With the new Samsung 64 GB NAND flash drives getting there it seems like the time has come for a fundamental shift in mobile computing.  No moving parts = smaller, faster, longer battery life.  It is a big step forward.

The Engadget guys couldn’t wait and loaded the drive into a MacBook Pro and demonstrated a 20 second boot.

The first MacBook Pro with a 64GB SSD?

I hope they do the big video card in the ultralight model.  Imagine that, a tiny notebook you can plug into a 30″ screen.

Maybe the next generation screens will have hard drives in them, so when you dock you back up. I guess they all have USB now so that’s where you plug your big drive in.

The Mac OS is still missing a feature like Offline Folders in Windows, which is the most seamless way to backup I’ve seen.

MacOffice 08 is looking promising. Office 2008 Sneak Peak: Entourage 

I’ve had a play and think Office 08 is a huuuge improvement. The new Entourage seems great. Phew.

But it’s not all going Apples way. Noticed on Andy, this video of how to do PR wrong …

Video: Apple’s PR machinery caught on tape 

Ouch!!

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Comments(4)

    Comment by Martin Tuip at 10:29 am on 20 November 2007

    I’m not sure if drives are the way to go in screens .. I would probably prefer solid state drives or flash memory over a harddisk.




    Comment by Raj at 11:14 am on 20 November 2007

    Interesting that the disk is not the thing that sucks the juice in a laptop.

    http://storagemojo.com/2007/11/15/flash-drives-not-worth-the-candle-in-notebooks/

    Still it might be a driver to lower power usage on the rest of the system board.




    Comment by Dermott at 11:45 am on 20 November 2007

    Raj, not sure the Storage Mojo’s example is based on pure science. If you take the Toshiba Portage R500, it comes with either a 120GB SATA disk or a 64GB solid state disk. Battery life times for the solid state version is much longer. Toshiba claim 12.5 hours for this version. As the only difference is the drive I would have thought battery life had a relationship to disk type.




    Comment by Don at 1:40 pm on 20 November 2007

    And, er, double ouch?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zORv8wwiadQ