netbooks

[kandrathe]

It's because of the power req as well as the noise, the littletop's with DVD drives sound like a 747 about to take off... /vrroom

Back in the late eighties, I read a paper on using crystals as solid state storage devices. The theoretical storage density is the size of each crystal atom. The crystal substance when hit with one color of laser would absorb energy and elevate an electron to a higher orbital. When hit with a different color would drop the electron back to the lower orbital and emit a photon. Being that the storage could be a portion of a sphere without the need for spinning, the accuracy and density can be controlled by rotating a very small mirror for lasing and sensing. The closest thing to this technology is the Digital Multilayer Disk.