And in the age of cheap removable memory, it's a shame there's no way to expand the unit's very limited storage capacity.

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It is packaged with a 2 gigabyte removable memory card and 4 gigabytes of internal storage, of which just 1.8 gigabytes is available to the user.

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For the hardware geeks out there, here's the reference design, which seems to indicate some future models "could" support removable memory for loading in and getting data off of PMCs.

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MP3 digital music players hadn't yet hit the market to any real extent, and removable flash memory cards were limited to use in digital cameras.

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Its products include removable and embedded memory cards used in many electronics, including medical devices and notebook computers.

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And since it's a Sony product, it also uses that company's Memory Stick for removable storage.

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The unit has 32 megabytes of memory and, as we suspected, uses the SD memory card for removable storage.

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Votes are stored in duplicate, in a removable card locked inside the voting machine and in built-in semiconductor memory.

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The latter is an unusual choice, but other 11-inchers like the Zenbook Prime UX21A forgo a memory card slot altogether, so it's at least nice to have removable storage to supplement the non-expandable 128GB SSD.

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There's 4GB of memory and a 128GB SDD in all three, while the hybrid bucks the trend by offering a removable battery, with both the faster Core i5 and the Core i7 models coming with an extra cell bundled in.

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