Later this month, hardcore gadget nerds in Asia will have a choice of three HDD-free laptops and one UMPC when Fujitsu joins Samsung and Sony in pimping portables with sturdy flash memory in place of feeble little spinny platters.
https://gizmodo.com/samsung-q1-ssd-umpc-solid-state-but-pricey-175732
Although pricing and specs haven’t been finalized yet, plumping for the chunks of Samsung-produced flash in the B- or Q-series laptop PCs will add ¥80,000 (US$669) or ¥160,000 ($1,338), for either 16GB or 32GB slabs, to the already-hefty ticket.
Fujitsu laptops also ditching hard drives for flash [Digital World Tokyo]
