Comments on: Apple lines up for Intel-Micron flash

Intel, Micron launch joint venture to produce NAND flash memory, with Apple prepaying $500 million.

[joshhyde]

This is more about computers than you think

More specifically laptops. Just think, Apple comes out with NAND equipped laptops while everyone else is still using HDDs. The batteries in the laptops would last much longer between charges and bootup quicker, also. You have to look at the BIG PICTURE.

[SystemsJunky]

Highly Unlikely

NAND Memory is not designed to reach the sizes in access of
todays HDD Drives (Not yet anyway) 60 - 250 GB..Its just not
possible. Not only that but the speed at which it transfers is only
6 mb per second at the moment. Toshiba is looking at doubling
that next year to 12. MS and Toshia have ventured to create a
"hybrid" drive that will bake HDD's with one gig of NAND (Cache)
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Samsung-and-Microsoft-are-
cooking-HDD-with-NAND-memory-1469.shtml
The other problem is voltage. The typical NAND Arch uses
between 2.5 - 3.6 Volts. Which would render your battery
useless in a matter of an hour or so especially with more
memory. Not to say that that wouldnt be bad a$$ is that did
occur, but the price(high) and the performance(low) would not
prompt any sales.

I've been using a 4 GB Ramdisk card from Gigabyte that does
kindof what you described. You should see Doom 3 and
photoshop after they are installed on this thing. They are
smokin. And the cool thing is, windows picks it up as a second
hdd.

http://www.giga-byte.com/Peripherals/Products/Products_GC-
RAMDISK%20(Rev%201.1).htm

[Roman12]

Yeah

I have seen the small 4Gb chip insode of a Nano, and I do not see why not they could make a chip roughly the size of a laptop HDD with a capacity of over 40GB. Once they get thig going and fix up all the minor problems and bugs, as a result we would have lots of fast and efficient storage on new laptops.
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[indrakanti]

Apple is hardly an early adapter

"Just think, Apple comes out with NAND equipped laptops while everyone else is still using HDDs"

I remember the time when Apple was still shipping their "top of the line Powerbooks" with 4200rpm drives when many other comapnies were using 5400/7200rpm HDDs in their PC laptops (TOP OF THE LINE). I have no reason to believe Apple will be the first one to adopt NAND chips in their portables.