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On the way to miss_chance's studio the other day I saw this:

in the window of this:

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MacWorld is coming up. Folks are predicting a thin laptop. I'm predicting that it's a tablet with a capacitive multi-touch screen. Whether it has a keyboard at all, and whether there's an option to put a traditional HD in it instead of flash, still remain to be seen.

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[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that didn't make any sense, did it? OK. The thing I wonder about is putting *swap* on a flash drive, because the constant writes will wear it out faster. Am I still behind the times on that?

[jered]

Personally, I'm against swap on multi-gigabyte non-server machines -- and have you noticed that the standard config for a MacBook Pro is 2 GB RAM now?

Not quite swap, but Microsoft Vista uses flash drives for a feature called ReadyBoost, which is an application pre-caching feature.