SSD

The SSD market is growing so fast, and Intel is doing so well with it, that its revenues are beginning to shift toward memory rather than CPUs.

Experiments on commercial solid-state drives show it's almost impossible to know when a file is really gone or when it's just out of sight.

If you have a Macbook Air (or any other laptop, for that matter) with a solid-state drive, you can increase its battery life by forcing it to hibernate instead of sleep.

Leave it to that computer innovation center Columbia (the country, not the university) to come up with a way to turbo charge the lowly netbook into near-laptop performance. Haleron in Columbia spent six months engineering a netbook with two Intel Atom processors to rev up the performance. The lower netbook pricing enables income-limited South Americans to use a netbook in place of a more expensive laptop for general computer needs.