Last October, for example, the company unveiled a new line of thin MacBook Air notebooks that have no disk drives.
It has no disk drives, cutting down on space and heat emission.
Now in the instance that you get a bad disk or no disk, you can take it back and they will replace it with the same item.
It fires up in a snap, no whirring disk drive sounds, no long-secret-handshake security software.
The original Mac had 128 kilobytes of memory and no hard disk drive.
That's precisely what I paid in 1985 for my first Macintosh, with its small black-and-white screen, 512 kilobytes of memory and no hard disk.
PocketZip is a tiny spinning disk, and, no matter what the company says about its reliability, consumers will think that a spinning disk is going to skip when subjected to sudden motion.
Not really finding any new features -- certainly no new icons, no voice memos, nothing obvious about disk mode.
With disk drive prices dropping, the Crowns no longer had an edge in this narrow market.
One very nice feature is support for torrents that you can trigger remotely for download to the player (presumably on an attached disk drive here, as there's no internal storage from what we can tell).
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They picked disk drives, for two reasons: There were no standards bodies dominated by big companies.
But unlike many of his friends, he has no illusions about making it as a veejay, a video disk jockey.
The modules never come with a disk or CD-ROM, and there are no drivers to transfer or InstallShield wizard to run.
In addition, with no moving parts, the SSD is more durable than traditional hard disk drives and it consumes less power to help maximize battery life.
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On the other hand, there is no shortage of third-party software that enable policy-based disk encryption on iPhones and iPads (including, full disclosure, the market-leading Afaria software offered by my employer, Sybase).
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It has no mechanical moving parts, it uses less than a hundredth the power of a hard disk, and it can be made very small.
Because these new storage systems have no moving parts, they use less energy and can be accessed much more quickly than moving disk drives.
Two officers respond to the suspicions of Susan Gilvray (Evelyn Keyes), a comely, no longer quite young blonde who is left alone in a suburban house at night by her aging disk-jockey husband.
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