How to increase the value of a $100 PC to $250 and make it unaffordable

[Christopher Browne]

On 12/10/06, Sy Ali <sy1234-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On 12/7/06, Simon <simon80-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > If the hardware has an SD card slot, storage no longer becomes a
> > constraint on what you run ...
>
> Isn't SD speed a concern?  I'm sure the SD slot in these laptops isn't
> particularly awesome.

Ah, but there are two kinds of reads:

a) Read-once, as at boot time, where there's a nominal amount of stuff
loaded, once.

b) Then, after boot, things will be read and will tend to be cached in
memory so that subsequent requests are "nearly free."
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