http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/16/vista-premium-logo-requirements-no-hybrid-hdds-after-all/ Engadget Comments for Vista Premium logo requirements: no hybrid HDDs after all? http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/16/vista-premium-logo-requirements-no-hybrid-hdds-after-all/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/16/vista-premium-logo-requirements-no-hybrid-hdds-after-all/If not,will someone explain?

thx]]>Jun 16th 2006 8:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/16/vista-premium-logo-requirements-no-hybrid-hdds-after-all/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/16/vista-premium-logo-requirements-no-hybrid-hdds-after-all/Jun 16th 2006 9:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/16/vista-premium-logo-requirements-no-hybrid-hdds-after-all/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/16/vista-premium-logo-requirements-no-hybrid-hdds-after-all/Jun 16th 2006 9:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/16/vista-premium-logo-requirements-no-hybrid-hdds-after-all/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/16/vista-premium-logo-requirements-no-hybrid-hdds-after-all/
No. It means OEMs wanting the Vista Premium label on certain PCs have to meet these specifications.]]>Jun 16th 2006 9:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/16/vista-premium-logo-requirements-no-hybrid-hdds-after-all/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/16/vista-premium-logo-requirements-no-hybrid-hdds-after-all/Jun 16th 2006 9:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/16/vista-premium-logo-requirements-no-hybrid-hdds-after-all/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/16/vista-premium-logo-requirements-no-hybrid-hdds-after-all/
Nobody is talking about this, but flash memory has a limited lifetime of write/re-write cycles after which the bits just don't switch anymore. Right now not many people have hit the upper limit because we don't churn data (unless you happen to be a pro photographer). But these new uses will be hitting the flash memory hard, and it just doesn't hold up like the magnetic bits on a hard drive. In a like manner, the hybrid hard drives may have really limited lifetimes.

I hope MS allows the "supercache" feature to be turned off, or I flatly will refuse to upgrade to preserve my flash memory devices' lifetimes.]]>Jun 16th 2006 10:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/16/vista-premium-logo-requirements-no-hybrid-hdds-after-all/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/16/vista-premium-logo-requirements-no-hybrid-hdds-after-all/
Given that Vista does a lot to reduce the amount of necessary reboots and crashes, and uses the Flash primarily for boot file caching... it's unlikely someone will wear out the 100,000 read/write cycles in the operating lifetime of the average PC.

Also, I think only a certain small percentage of the memory becomes unusable after 100,000 read/write cycles.]]>Jun 16th 2006 10:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/16/vista-premium-logo-requirements-no-hybrid-hdds-after-all/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/16/vista-premium-logo-requirements-no-hybrid-hdds-after-all/
Neal Saferstein]]>Jun 16th 2006 11:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/16/vista-premium-logo-requirements-no-hybrid-hdds-after-all/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/16/vista-premium-logo-requirements-no-hybrid-hdds-after-all/
And it's about time that integrated graphics sees some digital output. I'm not a fan of integrated graphics, but it has it's uses. The huges turnoff though, is the general lack of a dvi port, they almost always use an analog d-sub connector. I'm sure there are already some motherboards out there with integrated dvi, but I haven't personally seen them.

Maybe we can do away with the ps/2 ports as well... well they'll be around as long as the BIOS is still around

I don't see how anyone can see this as "bad" news, it's refreshing that oem manufacturers and motherboard manufacturers will start to phase out some of the older technologies.]]>Jun 17th 2006 12:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/16/vista-premium-logo-requirements-no-hybrid-hdds-after-all/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/16/vista-premium-logo-requirements-no-hybrid-hdds-after-all/
...

Wait... don't tell me that wasn't sarcasm, guys?]]>Jun 17th 2006 3:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/16/vista-premium-logo-requirements-no-hybrid-hdds-after-all/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/16/vista-premium-logo-requirements-no-hybrid-hdds-after-all/Jun 17th 2006 3:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/16/vista-premium-logo-requirements-no-hybrid-hdds-after-all/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/16/vista-premium-logo-requirements-no-hybrid-hdds-after-all/Jun 17th 2006 12:43PM