Topic: Solid-State Storage Devices

Special Report: What's Up With Solid State Hard Drives?

It seems like every new drool-worthy notebook these days -- from the MacBook Air to the VooDoo Envy -- is sporting solid state hard drives instead of traditional hard drives. If you don't know the particulars of what solid state ...READ»

Intel Announces SSD Drives for Netbooks

Seeing the incredible consumer interest in "netbooks" -- aka UMPCs, sub-notebooks, or "nettops" -- Intel [NASDAQ: INTC] has announced it will begin production of solid-state hard drives with the "value ...READ»

Intel Announces SSD Drives for Netbooks

Microsoft has just announced that it will expand that functionality to work with its Windows Mobile platform, placating the numerous Windows power-users who've been following rumors of the crossover for months.READ»

Lenovo Announces Laptop with 13-Hour Battery

Not content to be outdone by the rash of ultra-marathon computers coming out of Dell [DELL] and HP [HPQ], Lenovo [LNVGY] announced yesterday that they'd be releasing two new ThinkPads, one of which is a 2.5 pound business ...READ»

Fujitsu Makes Netbook Line Official

Fujitsu [OTC:FJTSY] hasn't exactly been cloak-and-dagger about its new netbook, the LifeBook U2010, but this week it got official with the line, showing it off in all 5 colors. Those colors are: Ocean Black (?), Pink Gold (??), Cool ...READ»

Sony Intros Impressive "TT" Laptop

Billing it as the "world's lightest Blu-ray notebook," Sony [SNE] announced today its new TT series notebook. The device will come housed in a carbon fiber chassis, and weigh just 2.8 pounds. It will sport an 11.1-inch ...READ»

Toshiba Portege Gets Massive Solid State Hard Drive

The venerable Portege line, Toshiba's [OTC: TOSBF] ultra-portable notebooks, has just gotten a little more venerable. The R500, the company's well-received 12.1-inch LED-backlit laptop, has officially gotten an upgrade to a 128GB ...READ»

Nokia's N96 Smartphone Available July 31st

While most smartphone enthusiasts would agree that Nokia's [NYSE: NOK] N95 is already a few steps ahead of the competition, the N96 will blow them away – for good reasons and bad. The N96 was originally announced at Mobile Congress ...READ»

Nokia's N96 Smartphone Available July 31st

The N96 was originally announced at Mobile Congress 2008, but more details have since come forth. READ»

Western Digital Spends $65 Million to Get Into SSD Market...Finally

Considering Western Digital's household name status in hard drive-based storage, it's a little surprising that the company hasn't dipped its toe in the fast-developing solid-state drive market before now. Acquiring Silicon Systems, ...READ»

Reinvented Hard Drive May Be Faster Than Solid-State

The era of the hard drive appears to be coming to an end, with the swift rise of solid-state storage that brings with it lower power consumption and higher speeds. But wait: British scientists have just reinvented the hard drive ...READ»

Samsung Mass Produces Solid State Hard Drives

Admittedly, hard drives are not the stuff of most peoples' dreams. But they are, however, increasingly important in the future generations of notebooks: because they have no moving parts and can be configured to sip energy, they ...READ»

Toshiba Announces Massive Notebook Hard Drives

This week Toshiba's [OTC:TOSBF] storage division announced the notebook industry's first 400GB hard disk, upping the ante in the increasing format war between traditional hard drives and solid state drives, which store their data on ...READ»

The Solid State Revolution

The death of moving parts means your stocking will be stuffed with smaller,faster, stronger -- and quieter -- gadgets. READ»

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VooDoo Envy Ordering Goes Live

Voodoo Computers is the badass gaming arm of HP [NYSE:HPQ], and the company has acquired a considerable cult following. Now it seems the company is trying to leverage that loyalty with its new Envy laptop, which went on sale today. ...READ»

Toshiba To Debut First Half-Terabyte SSD For Laptops

The rise of solid-state drives gets a boost today (despite recent industry woes) as Toshiba reveals what it says is the world's first 512GB SSD for laptops. The 2.5-inch drive is aimed at the notebook crowd, as well as desktop PC ...READ»

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Sanyo Updates "Gorilla" GPS Devices

Today Sanyo [OTC:SANYY] announced an heir to its well-liked Gorilla line of GPS devices, which have been lauded by customers and tech journalists alike for their multitude of extra features. The new model, dubbed the NV-SD585DT, ...READ»

Asus' Eee Keyboard: The Tiny Media PC You've Been Waiting For?

One oddity that popped up at CES last week was the Asus Eee Keyboard--it's basically an entire functioning PC with a 5-inch touchscreen display crammed into not much more space than a conventional dumb QWERTY unit. And now that ...READ»

Technology: Hacking, Loving, Hating the Asus EEE PC

This week I became the roughly one billionth person to buy one of those diminutive, happy little things called Asus Eee PCs. Mine is the low-end $299 version, and it came in a color I've taken to calling Confident Man ...READ»

Asus Debuts Yet Another Eee PC

Perhaps a little drunk on the wild success of its Eee PC notebook, Asus [TPE:2357] is releasing yet another iteration of the much-loved little machine called the Eee OC 904 HD. News junkies will recall that Asus announced more ...READ»

Special Report: Hard Drives Not Dead Yet

A couple of weeks ago, I gave you the lowdown on solid state drives: what they're for, how they work, and where they're headed. In the name of equal time, I also got the scoop on the future of traditional hard drives, in case you ...READ»

Vodafone To Sell New Dell Netbook

Dell's [NASDAQ:DELL] new netbook, the Mini Inspiron 9, is reportedly being sold with built-in mobile broadband service by European telecom provider Vodafone [NYSE:VOD]. The computer, which is aimed at entry-level and ...READ»

Steve Jobs Reveals Apple's MacBook Air and iTunes Movie Rentals

Steve Jobs announced Apple's new ultra-thin laptop MacBook Air during his keynote at MacWorld. With only a .76" thickness at most, Jobs called it the thinnest laptop ever made. Air features 13.3" LED screen, 1.6 GHz Intel Core Duo ...READ»

MacBook Pro's Solid State Drive Climbs Everest Without Breaking a Sweat

Solid-state drives are taking over the world, and for good reason. They're tiny, and consume very little power. But there's one benefit that often goes unnoticed: Since they don't rely on the delicate moving parts of typical hard ...READ»

How Expensive is Samsung's Viral Video Super PC?

This week Samsung released an "edgy" viral video to appeal to the youngsters and get people talking about its solid-state hard drives. At the risk of indulging the electronics company by doing just that, I've broken down the ...READ»