ASUS releases first Terabyte Notebook PC
The M70 by ASUS will be the first notebook PC released with a 1 TB hard drive. A terabyte is 1000 GB, which is an insane amount of space that can fit almost any video or song you currently own. The need for such a huge hard drive came from complaints from notebook owners that they had to buy an external hard drive to fit all of their data, which requires a wall socket connection and essentailly turns your notebook into a desktop. The utter loss of mobility caused by this spurred computer developers to make bigger hard drives standard on notebooks, but ASUS has now officially upped the ante for the industry. Along with the 1 TB hard drive, the computer will run specs better than competition, along with a Blu-Ray drive and a 1080p High-Def LCD screen. A terabyte can fit 1000 copies of the Encloypedia Britanica, and the prefix “tera” originated in ancient Greece as a word for “monster”.
http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/04/16/index.html#entry-48557814
Keith Meyer
This is crazy. The technology for computers is advancing so fast. Laptops are already being equipped with blu ray players thats crazy considering that sony’s dvd’s had only conceded a few months ago. I know that when i built my lap top i tried to get the most memory possible, but at that time a tb wasn’t even possible, looks like i’ll have to get another lap top before my college career is over. ughhh
I agree with Ryan. I think it is a brilliant idea that it is large enough so that people don’t have to go out and spend money on an external hard drive!