Under the hood, this guy packs an Intel Core 2 Duo, 8GB memory, an ATI Mobility Radeon HD GPU (up to 1GB DDR3 VRAM), and either a 500GB HDD or 64GB SSD.

ENGADGET: New Toshiba Satellite laptops land in Europe

We hope to see HDD and SSD combinations or future hybrid HDDs that would support write caching, particularly for notebook and especially ultra-thin notebook computers.

FORBES: Will A Fusion Drive Approach Become Widespread in Computers?

Lower prices could make hybrid HDD (or dual storage with both a HDD and an SSD) storage the highest volume ultra-thin notebook computers.

FORBES: Niches for Flash Memory at the 2013 CES

Storage-wise, you're looking at a 128GB and 750GB SSD, or just the 750-gig HDD.

ENGADGET

These approaches can combine a smaller SSD that stores the operating system and applications and a larger HDD that is used for user data, or a hybrid HDD that has flash memory inside a HDD that is used to store frequently accessed data on the flash with less used data kept available on the HDD.

FORBES: Seagate Discontinuing 7,200 RPM Drives--A Focus on Capacity?