Dell Offers Laptops with Flash Drives

by Jordan Yerman | April 25, 2007 at 09:13 am

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I'm not affiliated with Dell, in fact I've had fairly negative experiences with their products, but the news here is that they are offering a flash-based notebook. In large capacities, flash memory is exponentially more expensive than the standard spinning drive, but once the product gets out into the market and demand grows, then production increases and price drops...

Dell has begun allowing anyone buying its Latitude D420 sub-notebook to kit out the machine not with a regular hard disk but one of SanDisk's 32GB Flash drives.

The PC giant is charging a whopping $549 for the solid-state drive. You can knock off the price of the hard drive you no longer need, of course, but that doesn't reduce the overall cost of the notebook by much. No wonder Dell's pitching the option to big-business buyers.

A laptop-commuter myself, I look forward to one day not having to carry my machine like a sleeping infant.

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