He points to gold - a resilient conductor of electricity - which shows clearly in the connecting prongs of a laptop hard drive.
The 1GB of integrated flash memory is a nice touch, but it's not a substitute for the complete inabilty to access the laptop's hard drive when the unit is off or in sleep mode.
After the arrest, he consented to the seizure of his laptop computer, a hard drive and several flash drives, the affidavit in the ricin case states.
The initiative inspired several advances in laptop technology, in terms of features (flash memory instead of a spinning hard-drive), design (a laptop-to-tablet form and a waterproof keyboard) and price reductions.
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In 2001, a student software developer was told by Apple support that, despite his sob story about dropping the hard drive connected to his laptop causing damage, they couldn't resolve an issue that resulted from physical abuse.
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"If somebody were to steal my laptop today, they can't get into my hard drive, and they can't use it, " says Hauguel.
MHz Pentium laptop with 16 megabytes of memory and a one-gigabyte hard drive, and it will get as confused as any human shopper might.
When he does travel with a laptop, he uses his iPod 160GB Classic as an external hard drive that he loads with movies to watch during his flights.
Air tight protection: Traditionally, hard drives are located in one corner of laptops, so if a laptop is dropped, there's a good chance the hard drive is going to be seriously damaged.
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So now, at the end of each day, she downloads the images from her camera to her Apple Macbook Pro laptop, and transfers them again to a Western Digital 250GB mini hard drive.
Additionally, upgraded machines tended not to be good values, as boosting the RAM, hard drive capacity, and optical drive drove the price "beyond the reach" of most business laptop customers.
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He also noted that a smattering of companies would be showcasing USB 3.0 gear at upcoming trade shows, with a Buffalo external hard drive, an ExpressCard-to-USB 3.0 adapter and even a full-on laptop with a functioning USB 3.0 port making a stop at IDF later this week.
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