The Mac uses only plug-in memory modules, its operating system automatically recognizes all the memory present, and all Mac software can share it.
Virtualisation provides a way of hiding a computer's resources its central processor, operating system, internal memory, network controller, and storage devices behind a software curtain.
In a November 2nd interview, CEO John Kish explained that Pano Logic designed what he calls a zero client endpoint a device with no processors, memory, operating system or software that lets employees get to their corporate applications and data securely via the so-called cloud.
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Under its shiny new skin, new hardware and software, such as a slimmed down version of Apple's OS X operating system and a flash memory drive, instead of the current iPod's mechanical hard drive, could keep the new device thin and light.
The guy in my client meeting had a MacBook that ran both Windows and Mac OS so it came with a lot of extra memory to handle both operating systems.
While it's certainly tempting to wax philosophically about how Commodore has finally made the transition from 64KB of memory to 64-bit operating systems, the truth is that the company which just announced a line of boutique gaming PC's at CeBIT is far removed from the one that ruled the 80's and enhanced our droll elementary school days with some therapeutic Rampage.
Perhaps the biggest gain may be in dual storage computers where a flash memory device is used for storing operating systems, software and frequently accessed content (and maybe even for write caching) while a hard disk drive provides much less expensive mass storage of user data.
The company's flash memory unit hasn't posted an operating profit since before 2004, and it continues to devote billions of dollars toward its Itanium chip, which never lived up to original hopes.
When your computer boots up, it spends an interminable amount of time heaving some 30 million lines of operating code from the hard drive onto its main memory, DRAM (dynamic random access memory).
SSDs using flash memory consume considerably less energy when they are operating compared to HDDs.
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As with any bare-bones kit, you'll need to install your own memory, storage, wireless networking components and operating system.
Using a combination of HDD and flash memory in either a hybrid HDD or a dual storage notebook computer, where frequently used data (and possibly the operating system and application software) is kept in the flash memory, while the bulk of user content is kept on the HDD, has been shown to provide about 80% of the performance improvements of a pure SSD-based computer.
This is because the operating system and pre-loaded software are all on the flash memory.
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To find out, the 200 patients in the Houston trial are being given an amnesia-inducing drug to blot out the memory of the operation before they are whisked into the operating room.
The laptop comes with 64M bytes of SDRAM (Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory) and Microsoft's Windows NT 4.0 operating system preinstalled.
Driven by rising multimedia use, present PC configurations are seeing greater memory and hard drive capabilities, on top of which a new operating system could drive PC unit gains toward the 20% year to year level in each of the next two years.
The flash memory leader is more expensive than its industry average, but it also has better operating margins.
Red Hat, the world's largest Linux distributor, has provided an extremely compact version of its Fedora operating system, called Sugar, that uses a mere 130 megabytes of the XO's flash memory.
Toshiba's new memory element advances the company's pioneering work in STT-MRAM and overcomes the longstanding operating trade-off by securing improved speed while reducing power consumption by 90 percent.
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But for those of us who came up in an era when a glossy hunk of paper and ink was a thing to behold, the tangible result of a hardworking group of professionals operating in a weekly cycle that felt as natural and inevitable as the tides, this is a day for memory and regret.
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