Here's something to hurt your pocket even more. If your laptop wants to have the Vista Premium logo sticking prominently, then it will have to be equipped with those pricy hybrid hard drives. Definitely a put off since it will add costs to a notebook manufacturer's line.
At a discussion of flash memory technologies to be included in Windows Vista and "Longhorn" here at TechEd 2006 this morning, Microsoft's program manager for Windows Client Performance Matt Ayres confirmed to TG Daily that inclusion of hybrid hard drives will be a requirement for mobile systems that carry the Vista Premium logo, beginning in June 2007.
Add hybrid hard drives to get a Vista Premium logo source
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