i've been eagerly awaiting the switch to flash (or other) memory instead of moving drives, but 1GB just doesn't cut it, imho. memory prices have really come down, so this seems like it could be one of the machine's fatal flaws. i hope the internal flash is at least very expandable. any flash-based consumer laptop (except for the $100 ones, at least for now) should at least have the capability of doing what a video ipod does. if you're going to carry around something this large, it should have the same multimedia capabilities as other laptops. i don't expect that it should be able to have TONS of storage room, but you should have room for some movies, tv shows, music files, etc. by not allowing you enough space to save things, it makes you a slave to a good wi-fi signal. yeah - maybe it has ethernet. but it's supposed to be portable.
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i've been eagerly awaiting the switch to flash (or other) memory instead of moving drives, but 1GB just doesn't cut it, imho. memory prices have really come down, so this seems like it could be one of the machine's fatal flaws. i hope the internal flash is at least very expandable. any flash-based consumer laptop (except for the $100 ones, at least for now) should at least have the capability of doing what a video ipod does. if you're going to carry around something this large, it should have the same multimedia capabilities as other laptops. i don't expect that it should be able to have TONS of storage room, but you should have room for some movies, tv shows, music files, etc. by not allowing you enough space to save things, it makes you a slave to a good wi-fi signal. yeah - maybe it has ethernet. but it's supposed to be portable.