If there's an ultra-mobile PC (UMPC) that I'd most want for myself today, that UMPC might very well be the newest Q1 Ultra from Samsung. Earlier this year at CES, I got a real good gander at Samsung's then latest greatest: the Q1 SDD. The Q1 UMPC had already been out for a while. But the Q1 SSD marked the first time that the Q1 took on a solid state disk (SSD) instead of a traditional hard drive with platters, heads, and moving parts.
SSD's have their pros and cons. On the downside, relative to their mechanical siblings, they don't store nearly as much for every square millimeter of space they take up. Where SSD's are making their appearances today, most of them are 32 GB in size. Just moments before videotaping the latest UMPC (above), we videotaped some new hard drives coming from Samsung as well, including a USB-based 80 gigger that's basically the size of a credit card (thickness is about 3 or 4 credit cards). So, that gives you some idea of how far behind SSD technology is lagging hard drive technology.
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