Category: PC

Historical coverage of the PC market and new products by Charles W. Moore. 2004-2017.

More Ultra-thin Hybrid Drives On Way For Super-slim Ultrabooks

The Register’s Chris Mellor reports that in analyst briefings WD CEO John Coyne and CFO Wolfgang Nickl revealed that WD is developing thin and ultra-thin hybrid hard disk drives for the PC Ultrabooks market with a likely transition to energy-assisted recording in 2015 enabling 1TB 2.5-inch disk drive platters. Mellor notes that current Ultrabooks are 21mm and 18mm thick, but Intel wants to slim them […]