Makes me wonder when will Apple put flashram into their Powerbook...

Might be a while - it's not fast enough, nor has it the capacity to be useful yet.

samgsung is alreday testing some sort of 8gb memory

a year or two froom now no more har drives will be needed

i thing it's cool

interresting bloghttp://techscurry.com/?p=6

I don't get it. I thought Apple dropped Samsung for essentially political reasons. What's changed, and why do they need a completely new contract if they're getting back together again?

Maybe something not right was going on....

Samsung is a good company. I'm glad to see two companies work together. Samsung is a leading compnay in memory industry and Apple knows it. Whatever happened in the past will play a positive role for both Apple and Samsung. Go Apple!!!

There will always be a need for rotating hard drives, at least in the near term. They respond faster, and, at least so far, have MUCH larger capacities.

In the next couple of years, yes, larger flash memory devices will be made, as I read a while back that Samsung has a 16 GB chip in development.

But, 16 GB will hardly drive a modern desktop unit. However, imbedded computers, such as for cars or aircraft, which have environments much too rough for the typical hard drive, will probably see greater capacity for added functions driven by a larger capacity for loaded software and/or data. I see, for instance, much more accurate, reliable and faster navigation systems.

There WILL come a day when the modern, rotating magnetic disk hard drive, will go the way of the horse and buggy. But it'll take a few years more.

16Gb Flash chip

In the near future, there may be a market for this in ultra tiny laptops. In the more distant future, it is a question of if not when all computers, including desktops, will be using solid state memory.

Ok, so we were both a bit behind the curve! It's not "in development", but already being built. Could have been a prototype, tho.

Either way, my previous post doesn't change. Even doubling the yield to 32 GB still wouldn't really satisfy the average user's storage needs, and these things take time to develop.

Increase the storage capacity to 64 or 96 GB, and you've got the makings of a tougher laptop - but you'd need to increase the response time for the chips, too. And I'd bet that heat would begin to be a problem by then. You've got heat from the CPU already - add in a large storage device and we could be carting around a portable water cooler as well as the laptop!