500 GB 2.5 inch Mobile Drive and 1 TB Laptop Announced

I'd really have to check all of that out. It must be a lot of information for what you are saying Red.

Slowly, quietly, mostly unknown to the public, a whole new branch of mathematics is being developed. It involves solving for multiple variables in order to predict almost random like things such as the stock market and weather patterns. The solving for such problems necessarily involves huge numbers of iterations, huge multi-dimensional arrays, variants on fuzzy logic, artificial intelligence and lot's of propritary information no one wants to talk about. It's too valuable to give away! I find this stuff to be inordinately fun. All anyone needs to participate is a computer and a compiler.

I ended up taking a minor detour here, back into quantum physics. A lot of math there too. Not only that, I'm still trying to devise the reality/string equation and other possible variants. Wait, what a sidetrack! =D

I could see someone with about every movie from an entire genre on a laptop like that. I wonder how much music or video (in hours) could be stored on such drives.

I had mentioned the laptop a RAID (redundant array of independent disks, meaning 2 or more. Its a setup found more commonly on some desktops and a few remote harddrives.) After thinking about it, a RAID can still have problems (like one or more of the harddrives breaking down, or a connection issue). It comes with the territory, and I'm sure people will back up even if they have the most up to date machine on their hands. Now as for further technology expansion, do I hear a 1.5 TB notebook? 2 TB? Yes you promising company in the corner, I know you can do it :) Okay all humor aside, you've got the best point here. This is technology at its best and growing at its rapid rate. And OH YEA this new technology puts a smile on my face. Of course when its first out it'll be crazy expensive, but even new technology is getting cheaper and more mainstream rather fast.