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Subject: Re: you're not going to believe this.
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> 	you guys aren't going to believe what i just found on the web for
> 	the ASUS Eee-901 [or is it the "900"].  it was for the 9- and
> 	10-inch screens.  i was using konq which just segv'd so i am
> 	taking a break and thought i'd share this.
>
> 	last night, i could barely believe the ten-inch with a 40GB SSD.
> 	these mini-notebooks take two memory chips. they just plug in.
> 	i was googling around and found they have 32's and even 128's.
> 	so you can get 64 or up to 256Gigs of solid state disk ...
> 	not in a year or two (or five or six), but now.

today we have huge flash disks for really cheap, but still don't have 
native flash filesystem in any OS, be it FreeBSD or windoze or mac os x or 
whatever.

This flash chips have to emulate hard drive, which slows them down 
manyfold