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Originally Posted by keithwalton Is that a flash hard drive i spy in there or somthing else  what ever it is that thing sure has alot of ram chips!
The most interesting bit though to me is the shared heatpipe for what must be gpu, north bridge and cpu in that order. why is the cpu last seems abit odd to me! |
No flash hard disks, just general memory.
In the third picture, you're looking at 7GB of memory in that picture.
There is 2GB in the machine 1GBX2, there are a pair of 2GB ram sticks sitting on the laptop to the left (4GB total for the pair), and the third little card you see below the ram sticks is a "Robson Cache" card.
A Robson cache, is just a block of flash memory, generally of a very high speed variety, and about 1GB in size. It costs about $70. It supports Vista Readyboost, and Readydrive. Essentially in a laptop it allows you to use half of the flash memory in combination with your standard platter hard disk to create a hybrid disk. Unlike the USB solutions, this one is actually a card that is internal to the laptop, is manufactured by Intel, is designed specifically to work with the chipset, and thus works at a lower level that your average USB solution.
Could be helpful if it can be used to speed up Fedora boot... as I read somewhere on the RedHat website:
"Although developers quite enjoy the fact that they can turn their machines on, and have time to make a cup of coffee and read the paper before Fedora is ready... sometimes developers have already had their coffee, and the paper has been pinched by a co-worker, leading to early morning frustration"