Faster, Lighter, Less Expensive-- Here They Come!

After reading "The Death of the Hard Drive" by Jeremy Kaplan, I couldn't help but thinking of schools-- which tend to lag so far behind cutting edge-- which were investing huge bucks in desktop or laptop computers loaded up with thousands of dollars on their hard drives.  With that in mind, read these excerpts:

The Chrome OS will  . . . stores everything -- files, applications, data bits and bytes, literally everything -- on online servers rather than on your home or office PC. . . .


The Apple iPad has no drive, and the newest MacBook Air laptop skips a hard drive entirely as well; they all rely on flash memory chips for storage. . . .

"As interesting as what it has is what it doesn't have," CEO Steve Jobs said when he unveiled the computer in October. By going with flash memory, Jobs claimed that the new MacBook Air would be 80% smaller, two times faster, and more reliable -- and like an iPad, it would turn on instantly, rather than booting up as other computers do. . . .


As tablets and ebooks become more prevalent, we'll see more devices and fewer hard drives, agrees Ross Rubin, director of industry analysis for NPD data.

The future of computing is the cloud which allows for more agility and far less expense.For those schools that have made big investments in gear, it's time to cut their losses and start looking at Macbook Air, Chrome OS, and iPad.