NVFS Laptop?

From the sounds of it (just reading in between the lines of D Conference coverage) the Foleo will have 128MB of RAM and have a slot for a Compact Flash (CF) card for storage. It is my guess that the Foleo will ship with a 256MB Compact Flash card with the operating system installed (with 128MB of space available after operating system is installed). This would be a desirable set up I think.

Just as the Life Drive had it’s operating system installed on a CF Hard Drive which could be swapped out for a CF Flash card later (after much F*cking around by users on some forums – sadly this was not an easy thing to do) this could give the Foleo a very adaptable operating system/RAM configuration. If the CF Card can ‘simply’ be swapped out for a bigger one once the operating system has been installed on the new card I could see this set up making the Foleo VERY desirable to Linux users who could easily set up the Foleo as a Linux pc (with or without the Palm Linux). If the CF card was also used for RAM it would alleviate any issues with lack of RAM the device might otherwise have.

Imagine a laptop with no moving parts… Ok, this is not too hard to imagine as this set up is now becoming available as laptops get shipped with solid state hard drives. These hard drives cost half as much as a Foleo by the way. Now imagine a laptop with NVFS memory. I think this could be a real plus. Actually thinking more about the Foleo’s ability to have instant on and off makes me think that this might be the way the Foleo is set up for hard drive storage space and RAM.

Oh, and yes the dog got a biscuit for the modeling job.