All three of Pioneer's new players come complete with either on-board memory or flash drive for expandable memory to ensure consumers can take advantage of BD-Live right out of the box.
ENGADGET: Pioneer intros BDP-120 / BDP-320 / Elite BDP-23FD Blu-ray players
Apple's 3-pound MacBook Air, the 2.4-pound Toshiba includes the optical drive that the MacBook Air lacks while cramming in 128 gigabytes worth of storage, thanks to the world's largest capacity flash memory-based hard drive.
The initiative inspired several advances in laptop technology, in terms of features (flash memory instead of a spinning hard-drive), design (a laptop-to-tablet form and a waterproof keyboard) and price reductions.
Kingston offered a new version of their Wi-Drive with up to 128 GB flash memory capacity and expansion capacity using an SD card.
Seagate had a technology demonstration at their hotel suite in the CES where they were showing a 7mm thick 2.5-inch hybrid drive with 500 GB HDD and 32 GB flash memory capacity.
As we approach the general availability of ultrabooks with the Windows 8 operating system it looks like the largest sales for ultra-thin computers will include a hard disk drive as well as flash memory.
Only thing is, data stored on that relatively slow disk drive (instead of flash memory) resulted in "sluggish" screen-to-screen transitions.
Intel announced a new SATA interface enterprise solid state drive (SSD) that uses 25 nm multi-level cell flash memory (this is 2 bit per cell technology referred to as MLC).
FORBES: New Technology and Investment Opportunities at the 2011 Intel Developers Forum
The company's USB 2.0 HyperDrive SPACE may look like your average Korean-bound DAP at first glance, but actually houses your choice of 2.5-inch hard drive, and can automatically transfer pictures or media from a smorgasbord of flash memory directly onto the HDD to keep your card ready for more.
ENGADGET: SavitMicro HyperDrive SPACE 2.5-inch HDD enclosure backs up flash cards
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