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Re: As far as Wireless N goes, I don't really care about it. The cafes that I go to are still on Wireless B. My house is on Wireless G and a few places that I go have G. The Robson stuff does sound interesting. Another layer in the storage hierarchy.

Michael, maybe I am a different consumer than you, but faced with the choice of 802.11g and 802.11n based laptops, it would be an easy decision for me to go with 11n. If not for today's infrastructure, then for tomorrow's. I usually prefer to keep my laptops for 3+ years, and I'm sure that over this period of time, I can expect the industry to move to 11n infrastructure.

As for Robson, Intel has demonstrated this before, and it is quite impressive. It has the ability to boot the system twice as fast, as well as load applications twice as fast. As these are typically the big limiters in performance today (especially in laptops, which do not use RAID-0 and are forced to implement slower RPM drives in order to conform to power budgets), I would be very interested in paying more for a technology that accelerates these.