Interesting, although my MacBook Pro already "boots up" from sleep in under a second!

So much memory... Video, RAM, now this. Crazy. I'd like to see it, but how much more space would it consume/need? I think we'd all like the features of current Powerbooks with the MacBook Pros.

Very cool. I hope Apple adopts this. Would there be any benefit for desktops with this? How about launching programs user-specified quicker with this technology? I know Apple Music uses would like Logic to boot up in about half the time!

I look forward to this technology. Anything to increase the real world speeds is a good thing to me.

Maybe Apple can incorporate or better said take advantage of this new technology in Mac OS 10.5 "Leopard"

I love this technology - getting rid of platter drives is the holy grail of laptop and TABLET computing!

Ever run a Pismo from Flash? Ever run Linux from RAM? Ever played an iPod nano and been impressed with the lack of seek times, vibration and BULK?

The future is in flash. Platter hard drives are great for huge data stores that you want to be fast, re-writable and of course cheap. But the age of tugging one around with you all the time and fearing the worst when you drop your computer or left it stored in the cold is coming to an end.

Apple first!

why is this "new"? hypothetically, as long as my boot loader could see the memory (like on a usb flash drive, or something along those lines), i could say, put a Linux kernel on it, and boot from there. The only difference I see is this is soldered to the board.

While this could be loaded without having to spin up the disk, the kernel still has to initialize and go through its boot process. Will parallelizing the hard drive spin up really make a difference?

putting OS libraries and files on a separate physical disk (whether its flash or platter-based, especially one that rarely needs writes), is bound to speed up any application, is this a potentially cheap and efficient way of doing just that?

The "switch" to Intel has made the Mac roadmap a bit more interesting. Gone is the secrecy we had with IBM and Apple on future processor and related technologies. It's nice to on a winning team for a change.