The drive is available in ultrathin formats that can fit into a very thin notebook computer.
Seagate, Western Digital and Toshiba are shipping hybrid HDDs targeted for the ultra-thin mobile computer market with up to 8 GB of flash memory and 1 TB hard disk storage.
The big idea, just like with any sort of thin client computer, is that the tablet connects back to a server where all the heavy lifting is done and all sensitive data is stored.
Oberweis has sold his holdings in thin-client computer company Neoware (nasdaq: NWRE - news - people ), drug-test kit maker American Bio Medica (nasdaq: ABMC - news - people ), and medical-device company Cyberonix (nasdaq: CYBX - news - people ).
The technology works by placing a thin acrylic panel over the computer display.
Successful mergers in the computer industry are thin on the ground.
The IBM team's quantum computer was a straw-thin vial filled with a rust-colored liquid packed with millions of copies of a single organic molecule.
And the advance guard of this revolution is neither a console nor a computer, but a flat, thin, palm-sized piece of plastic.
The prospect of sitting at a desk (probably in front of a computer), with only a thin partition separating you from a sea colleagues is sometimes too much to bear.
Although in decline over the last year or so notebook computer makers appear to be poised to offer thin and light weight, reasonably priced products that provide performance and power use like those of flash memory devices with the storage costs of hard disk drives.
Taking its cues from computer-aided-design software, an extruder stacks thin layers of gooey thermoplastic that cure into shape.
During a colonoscopy, a doctor examines the inside of the colon and rectum by inserting a colonoscope, a thin, flexible instrument that sends images to a TV screen or computer.
At the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show, computer makers will be pushing a new breed of ultra-thin, ultra-light laptops amid a sea of razor-thin smartphones and tablets.
Ntera's first product is NanoChromics, an ultra-thin display that looks like regular paper but can change what it displays, just like a computer screen or LCD.
The company, Thin Film Electronics, has a license with reasearch center PARC (inventor of the graphical user interface and the computer mouse) to market printable microelectronics devices.
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