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Silicon Harddrive???
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Yeah, 10 hrs. max battery life, that's hardly enough "solid state" to be safe to work with.
Just image, you coming home after a long day, to discover there was a long power outage. Great.
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I remember experimenting with putting the system folder on a ram disk in the Mac OS 7-9 days... that was cool.
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"Bill Gates can't guarantee Windows... how can you guarantee my safety?"
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Originally Posted by what_the_heck
Yeah, 10 hrs. max battery life, that's hardly enough "solid state" to be safe to work with.
Just image, you coming home after a long day, to discover there was a long power outage. Great.
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The entire purpose of this is to use it as a scratch disk, not to store sensitive data on.
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The Google video is a fake as Tech Report's boot time for the i-RAM was only 4 seconds faster than a hard disc. It's still very very very fast at copying files.
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Originally Posted by macaddict0001
The entire purpose of this is to use it as a scratch disk, not to store sensitive data on.
Is it? Ok then. Why even build in a battery ? Why do you need scratch data beyond a reboot ?
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This would work well with SuperDuper's idea of putting the system files in a sandbox and running the OS off of that. Since there's a backup on the regular hard drive, you don't have to worry about losing the data if the power runs out.
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Originally Posted by what_the_heck
Is it? Ok then. Why even build in a battery ? Why do you need scratch data beyond a reboot ?
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In case of sudden power loss.
You could still lose a little data if the power went out as all the info on the scratch would eventually disappear.
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Originally Posted by production_coordinator
In case of sudden power loss.
You could still lose a little data if the power went out as all the info on the scratch would eventually disappear.
For a sudden power loss you'd still need a UPS. The regular memory of the computer is still not "solid state". So I don't see the point.
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Originally Posted by what_the_heck
For a sudden power loss you'd still need a UPS. The regular memory of the computer is still not "solid state". So I don't see the point.
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the battery acts as a ups.
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Originally Posted by macaddict0001
the battery acts as a ups.
But not for the RAM of the computer ! 
This is ONLY a substitute for the HD !
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Originally Posted by what_the_heck
But not for the RAM of the computer !
This is ONLY a substitute for the HD !
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oh i didn't understand your answer.
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