Speed can be helpful, or forgettable (Newsday)
Cameras, MP3 players, smartphones, palmtops, digital picture frames: Unlike PCs and their spinning hard drives, most of these portable devices rely on some form of removable solid-state memory. In fact, the no-moving-parts movement is even beginning to challenge the hard drive as a primary storage medium for portable computers. Witness two ultralight laptops: Apple's new MacBook Air has a ...
