Flash-based Laptop for $30

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Very cool. Addonics is selling a $30 Compact Flash adapter that allows you to boot from any CF card just like a standard 2.5″ hard drive. The adapter comes in SATA and IDE and can use multiple flash cards at once.

Clearly, you’d need a few hundred for some fat CF cards — $260 for 24GB — but the read and write speeds will be phenomenal. This will become extremely important as newer cards come out, allowing for some amazing upgrades to devices as disparate as laptops and the Apple TV. Good stuff.

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Addonics CompactFlash Adapters Replace Notebook Hard Drives [Gizmodo]