XP On Your Thumb Drive..

[b3nje]

http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=177102101&pgno=1&queryText=

How long till all harddrives are as big as your thumb and pc's are as big as your hand!

 

[G_F]

Not long i doubt. I have had a full Linux disto on a flash drive for a few months now, comes in very handy.

 

[biojo]

well theres allready a pc that straps to yer wrist, and im sure last year some one made a 1" sized hd, so i`d say it can or is allready done, but obviously not same spec as newer pcs now

"Toshiba has just created the world's smallest hard drive. At 0.85" in diameter, this unit takes the title of tinyness from Hitachi's 1" hard drive, now the second smallest drive around"

http://www.arcom.co.uk/wearable_computer/Zypad/default.htm

 

[MaLicE]

supposedly ibm or someone a few years back made a hologram hard drive... like one of the holograms on a credit card... information is sent via light or summit daft...

 

[biojo]

i believe that was for memory (RAM) etc