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Technology

Happy memories

By Bennett Daviss

10 April 2004

FRUSTRATION is programmed into our electronic devices along with their operating systems. Every time you use your PC, it takes precious minutes to boot up and power down. Your PDA never holds quite enough data. Your cellphone’s battery fades before you can finish your list of calls and check your email. Your notebook computer crashes and sends the draft of your report to oblivion. And it’s all because of memory chips.

Memory is the Achilles’ heel of electronic devices: it slows them down and guzzles their power. If only there was one perfect form of computer memory – one that starts your PC instantly, lets batteries…

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