Despite the stepped-up activity, some art dealers still bemoan what they call the indifference of the tech world and write off tech billionaires as glorified engineering nerds who skipped art history to play with their computers.

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Thus while all-SSD laptop computers are increasing in popularity, it appears that approaches that combine flash memory with HDDs may play an even bigger role, at least in the near term.

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