The HTC has a handsome, sturdier, aluminum body, dual stereo speakers, an excellent camera, better screen resolution than the new Samsung and twice the base memory for the same price.

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But it comes with just one-quarter of the memory the base iPhone includes.

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The solid- state drive (SSD) capacity and random-access memory (RAM) in the base configuration of the Modbook Pro are also being doubled.

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New storage systems are increasing using flash memory for system acceleration, such as faster transaction processing and data base searches.

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At the moment, memory chips are made by laying down strata of different chemicals on a silicon base, and then carving canyons through the layers in order to separate the individual components.

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