Future Apple Notebooks likely to benefit from flash?

I think the main value is not speed or battery life, but rather hard drive longevity. The laptop is a terrible environment for a hard drive, and the key to longevity is bringing iPod drive technologies to the laptop. Spin less, reduce heat, more aggressive acceleration lockdown sensors, faster shutdown.

Hard drive failures are very expensive for Apple, they will do everything possible to double the life of the laptop hard drive (currently longevity is probably about 1.5-2.0 years average).

The benefit of flash memory in a hybrid drive is the reduced use of spinning the hard drive itself. That saves battery power. Apple must've turned down the offer due to cost factor because why would the company disadvantage its laptops in performance with other Vista capable laptops out there considering how much Apple is benefitting from the Intel switch and BootCamp? I mean, its embarrassing to Microsoft when Apple is heralded as making the best machines to run Windows on.

If I were Apple, I'd do everything possible to make sure the press labels it as such. Its like Coleco's strategy back-in-the-day of releasing its Atari 2600 adapter for the ColecoVision. Not many of them were sold, but many consumers bought the ColecoVision instead of the Atari 5200 (or the 2600) because they figured if there was ever a need to run 2600 software, they could buy the adapter. Similarly, if the general consensus from Joe Public is Apple makes the best computers to run Windows on, then the consumer will buy the Mac yet might never buy (or pirate) Windows Vista. Its piece-of-mind "security" that most will not take advantage of, like extended warranties.

Flash has low latency compare to HD which spin ups and down. Although the throughput of Flash is lower, its low latency helps and work very well with lots of small file which means spotlight will be faster as well as browser cache or any other apps that makes heavy use of small files.
I believe Robson uses Flash with transfer speed of 40MB/s Read and 20MB/s write compare to Desktop HD with 50 - 60MB/s Read. But it should be noted that Notebook HD are generally slower so the transfer speed of Flash and HD in notebook isn't all that much different as every one cried about.

And the question about hybrid drive. Personally i never liked the idea and i have always prefer Robson. ( Becoz i always think HD should double the size and cache as well as lowering power and leave all important fast file access to flash. Although that still seems a few years off ). I seems to record intel said something about Robson has an advantage being directly connected to the Chipset rather then accessing the flash memory through the SATA cable. ( Increase latency perhaps? )

"They are now where near as fast, I believe they are peaked out at 25MB's a second"

I'm not fluent in english, but I suppose he means "nowhere" . (or else I cannot understand)

Flash has less latency than hard drive. for sure. it will help to boot faster.

"They are now where near as fast, I believe they are peaked out at 25MB's a second"

I'm not fluent in english, but I suppose he means "nowhere" . (or else I cannot understand)

Flash has less latency than hard drive. for sure. it will help to boot faster.

"since flash is faster than a hard drive", since when is flash faster than HD's? They are now where near as fast, I believe they are peaked out at 25MB's a second.

Can anyone explain the benefits between this (Robson) and hybrid drives? The benefits touted in this article (and similar ones out right now) seem to be in relation to regular HDs. How does this Robson tech stack up against hybrid HDs?