At the Cebit technology fair in Germany, Samsung unvieled plans for a laptop using solid state flash memory and eliminating a hard drive. The laptop has 32GB of flash memory. The newer memory chips are smaller in size and occupy the same space as traditional 1.8″ disk-drives.

Whats The Advantage?

1. Speed! – The new chips allow data to be reached much faster, the prototype laptop that Samsung showed off was able to boot in 18 seconds versus 31 seconds for the laptop with a regular hard disk drive. This is a great stride in speed almost 50% as fast as traditional hard disks.
2. Reliability & Portability – Solid state memory can handle a beating, This is the same technology used in MP3 players that allows you to smack them around without skipping. This makes your data safer. Solid state memory is also much lighter than hard disks. This will open up all sorts of opportunity’s for new super light portable laptops.

The Real Problem Here?

Although there are many advantages to this new technology the only major downside is the cost. One of these 32GB chips cost’s almost 900$ making it hard to have a large amount of storage space in any medium. But technology prices are always falling so in a few years this technology will start popping up on a lap near you.