Seagate has launched the Momentus 5400 PSD laptop-use hybrid hard drives, featuring 256MB of embedded Flash memory for faster boot-up and better system performance. "What you do is take a logical address of a hard disk drive - say, sector 0," Barnetson illustrated for us, "and rather than having it reside on magnetic media, you say it now resides on Flash media. Any operations that are done to it, whether they be read or write, are not so much cached as they are pinned, or physically moved from the magnetic media over to the Flash memory." A sector which contains frequently accessed files or other elements, such as a FAT table, could be pinned to Flash memory for faster read and write performance, he said.

The leaked manual for the Samsung SPH-P9200 revealed the full specifications of this ultra-mobile PC device. The UMPC features a 5-inch 800×480 touch-sensitive display, a folding keyboard, a Via C7-M processor at 1GHz, 512MB of RAM, and a 30GB hard drive, and supports Wifi, Wibro and HSDPA networks, according to the manual.

In January 2007 Samsung  showed the SPH-P9000 UMPC device which features Mobile WiMAX technology, at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2007 in Las Vegas. Samsung SPH-P9000 also incorporates Windows XP operating system, and full QWERTY keyboard

Fujitsu today announced the affordable LifeBook V1010. Starting at less than $800 and delivering the performance and reliability usually associated with higher-priced LifeBook models, Fujitsu claims the LifeBook V1010 notebook "eliminates the need to sacrifice quality for a lower price." The basic Fujitsu LifeBook V1010 configuration features the Intel Pentium Dual-Core T2130 processor at 1.86GHz, 1GB of DDR2 system memory, a 120GB hard drive, a DVD burner, and the Intel GMA 950 integradted graphics, managing the 15.4″ widescreen display with 1280-by-800 resolution. Customers can also purchase the V1010 with the Core 2 Duo Processor T5200 at 1.6 Ghz and 2GB of RAM for an additional $100.