Things are getting too quiet

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

After a recent blog comment saying that I was once a Sony fan (but no longer am), I just mysteriously found myself looking at a page on the Sony Style website, admiring the various models in the sexy little TZ range.

One thing struck me – the ‘top of the range’ model comes with a tiny but expensive solid state hard drive. It’s not just Sony – the likes of Dell offer something similar in their ultra-portables. Even the cheap (but not as cheap as it used to be) Eee PC uses a solid state drive.

And what’s wrong with that? They’re mechanically robust, and flash memory is now cleverly produced so that it doesn’t ‘wear out’ as quickly as the 1st generation products did. Plus prices are rapidly tumbling. It’s great, isn’t it?

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