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DIY notebook with no hard drive

pengyou Page Icon Posted 2005-12-17 3:15 PM
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I recently discovered a product called diskonchip that is a memory chip designed to allow it to work like a bootable hard drive. Some motherboards - I think not only desktop but, am hoping, also notebooks have an empty socket. This chip was designed to be put in it.... I have been thinking that it would be nice to have a small notebook to take around with me as a control center, possibly still with a hard drive but an external hd that would be used for storage. Does anyone know anything about this? I am really hoping to find a subnotebook that will do this for me.

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torch Page Icon Posted 2005-12-17 3:25 PM
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Sounds a little like the H/PC Pros...
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CE Geek Page Icon Posted 2005-12-17 4:04 PM
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Maybe specifically the NEC MP800/880 with the USB Clik! driver installed.
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C:Amie Page Icon Posted 2005-12-17 7:03 PM
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For no reason other than being in a good mood (first time for everything)

Here is apicture of a notebook with no hard drive



Just an observation

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Snappy! Page Icon Posted 2005-12-17 7:10 PM
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There is really such a thing ...

eg
http://www.tri-m.com/products/msystems/index.html
http://www.m-sys.com/site/en-US/Products/DiskOnChip/

and gosh, tri-m ... didn't my sister used to work in that company? How small is this world!
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Wessex_nut Page Icon Posted 2005-12-19 6:56 AM
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Does that mean I can drop my laptop now with one of these?
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sophisticatedleaf Page Icon Posted 2005-12-19 6:21 PM
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Disk on Chip...that's what they use for those pci-card sized 486 embedded systems. Pop it into your pc, and you have another computer running. Woot. DOS. (Yeah, I would probably save myself a lot of trouble if I just got one of those...)

I guess it is used for other embedded systems, but I expect most of them to just use compactflash drives and such by now instead.
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