Rohrer built the application and stored the only copy on a flash memory drive, which he showed to the GDC crowd.
Under its shiny new skin, new hardware and software, such as a slimmed down version of Apple's OS X operating system and a flash memory drive, instead of the current iPod's mechanical hard drive, could keep the new device thin and light.
The flash memory in the Fusion Drive moves data and applications frequently accessed by the user to the flash memory and move less frequently used data to the hard disk drive as the flash memory becomes full.
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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.
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Every new iMac now comes standard with 8GB of 1600 MHz memory and a 1TB hard drive, and customers can choose to configure their iMac with up to 32GB of memory and a new 3TB hard drive, or 768GB of flash storage for ultimate performance.
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It was bad enough when flash memory overtook hard drives in little devices: Apple's classic iPod used a tiny hard drive memory, but the other models rely on flash memory.
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For example, when you sign on for EC2 you go through a question and answer process where you decide on things like memory, hard drive space and processor speed.
It was bad enough when flash memory overtook hard drives in little devices: Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people )'s classic iPod used a tiny hard drive memory, but the other models rely on flash memory.
Driven by rising multimedia use, present PC configurations are seeing greater memory and hard drive capabilities, on top of which a new operating system could drive PC unit gains toward the 20% year to year level in each of the next two years.
So far as we can tell, the memory and hard drive stay pretty consistent as you move up in configurations, though you can opt for a Core i5 or i7 CPU. The highest-end confg also steps up from integrated graphics to a 2GB NVIDIA GeForce GT630M GPU. Curious?
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In a normal power scheme, after a half hour the notebook will drop to hibernate, which takes the bits in memory, puts them on the hard drive, and shuts off power to memory.
For example, because it is normally strapped to its owner, it is harder to misplace than a flash drive or memory stick.
The desktop Apple computers, the iMac and Mac mini, will include a combination of hard disk drives and flash memory called a Fusion drive.
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"CFast2.0 memory cards will help drive the future of professional photography and video-recording applications, " said Shuki Nir, senior vice president and general manager, Retail, SanDisk.
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The device is designed to pull down VOD broadcasts via wireless IP, and then store them for later viewing on a hard drive or memory card.
Back in the day we were asking our PCs to do the heavy lifting of running those resource intensive client-server applications that required lots of memory, local hard drive space and processing power.
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.
We realised that if you had digital music, music that was digitised that is, then you could store it on flash memory or a hard drive and thus create a music player that could store many more songs that the Sony Walkmans or portable CD players that were the rage at the time.
The PC Station also has speakers, a slot for three types of memory cards and a DVD drive.
The original Mac had 128 kilobytes of memory and no hard disk drive.
Content from cameras, stored on PS3 or a connected drive or USB memory is displayed together in a handy 'timeline' view.
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This last week saw some interesting announcements representing the implementation of technologies that will enhance hard disk drive and flash memory technology in 2013 and beyond.
Right now, there are two pre-built configurations of the U845 on Toshiba's website, which means you won't have the chance to customize things like hard drive size or memory allotment.
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XE300M22-A01US carries a 2.5GHz, Sandy Bridge-era dual-core chip on top of the usual 4GB of memory and 16GB solid-state drive.
When your computer boots up, it spends an interminable amount of time heaving some 30 million lines of operating code from the hard drive onto its main memory, DRAM (dynamic random access memory).
It had no mouse or hard drive, 512K of main memory and two floppy drives.
The Momentus XT drives include a flash memory cache inside of the hard disk drive.
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