phi ([info]palmwiz) wrote,
@ 2008-01-09 22:09:00
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On the way to [info]miss_chance's studio the other day I saw this:

in the window of this:




MacWorld is coming up. Folks are predicting a thin laptop. I'm predicting that it's a tablet with a capacitive multi-touch screen. Whether it has a keyboard at all, and whether there's an option to put a traditional HD in it instead of flash, still remain to be seen.


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[info]ceo
2008-01-10 03:20 am UTC (link)
Where is that?

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[info]palmwiz
2008-01-10 03:46 am UTC (link)
Oh, I totally should have done this as a "what's this" game.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22285320/ says Seattle is getting them too.

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[info]qwrrty
2008-01-10 03:36 am UTC (link)
smartcar!!!

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[info]lifecollage
2008-01-10 03:51 am UTC (link)
My car! Let me show you it!

Hell, let me show *me* it! Road trip!

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[info]mrf_arch
2008-01-10 04:10 am UTC (link)
Yay, smartcars!

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[info]vettecat
2008-01-10 05:06 am UTC (link)
They're in Boston now? Neat!

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[info]qwrrty
2008-01-10 01:30 pm UTC (link)
FWIW, I'm skeptical that they're ready to put a journaling filesystem on a flash drive.

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[info]jered
2008-01-10 02:23 pm UTC (link)
Why? Journaled file systems are great for flash, because they even the wear. Or are we caught in the journaled (log-structured) vs. journaled (transaction-logged) swamp?

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[info]frobzwiththingz
2008-01-10 03:01 pm UTC (link)
I was under the impression that all the modern flash drives have wear-leveling built into the hardware now, so even running plain old FAT on them is still OK.

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[info]qwrrty
2008-01-10 06:11 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, that didn't make any sense, did it? OK. The thing I wonder about is putting *swap* on a flash drive, because the constant writes will wear it out faster. Am I still behind the times on that?

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[info]jered
2008-01-10 06:15 pm UTC (link)
Personally, I'm against swap on multi-gigabyte non-server machines -- and have you noticed that the standard config for a MacBook Pro is 2 GB RAM now?

Not quite swap, but Microsoft Vista uses flash drives for a feature called ReadyBoost, which is an application pre-caching feature.

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[info]palmwiz
2008-01-15 08:40 pm UTC (link)
Journaling file system in fact available for flash. No capacitive screen -- so it's crow for dinner for me. I guess it's up to Nokia to push this envelope now.

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[info]qwrrty
2008-01-15 09:20 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, but I'm sharing some of that crow, clearly :-)

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