Update – Samsung to introduce laptop computers June, 2006 without a hard drive. Instead? 32 gigabytes of NAND flash memory. US$3700 in Korea only.

Samsung Notebook Replaces Hard Drive With Flash

The very limited Apple Shuffle with 512MB of flash memory costs C$89 today.

Competitors need offer twice as much memory (1GB) plus more features for C$79 in order to sell.

A 1GB flash memory card for my camera costs C$40. A 256MB USB key fob drive C$10!

Flash memory technology has no moving parts. It is much more reliable than the spinning disk on this computer. Or on the original iPod.

Death to spinning disks. In future I buy devices with flash memory instead. Like the iPod Nano, for example.