Buzz Out Loud Lounge: What's up with the caps? Hybrid laptops wave of future

What's up with the caps? Hybrid laptops wave of future

First of all, what is up with cnet all capitalized on the website? I mean the logo of the site is all lowercase, looking hip and trendy like ebay or kd lang, but the infusion of caps to the website name looks odd, like someone missed a styling meeting.

Anyways, listened to the most recent podcast, dealing with flash-based laptops. I don't think flash memory will drop at the rates most industry experts expect, since those companies expect to still make money at the relatively new platform (its not like tube televisions).

No, I think that completely flash-based laptops will still be too pricey for most consumers. I also think that people would still rather have more hard drive space than an instant on, and we are still a good five years away from flash approaching hard drive sizes at an even reasonable price. I do think that hybrid laptops, those who use both flash and a normal hard drive will be the wave of the future. Think about this, a laptop with the operating system and major programs stored on a 8 or 16 gig module on the motherboard. With the system on the disk, there would be an instant-on effect.

Another 8 gig card would be used for files, and web cache, just like photoshop and a scratch disk, or the hard-drive-based ipods. Files would be loaded from the hard drive to the flash card when being used.

This would allow for several benefits - First, the less the hard drive would be used, the less power the laptop would utilize. Second, with the addition of motion sensors, there would be less of a chance that a hard drive would be spinning when a laptop was dropped, reducing the possibility of damage.

Can you see it now - the new Macbook Pro, as fast as your thoughts - 10-second startup time, 20 percent faster in file handling with flash operation, big honkin hard drive for storage.