Laptop prices may go down now that Apple announced that they will be launching hybrid notebooks that will take advantage of the fast memory that we already have working in digital cameras or the portable media players. There is also an LG report that says they will be using hybrid drives, spinners and flash, for their new R400 notebooks they will be launching.

We already know that Samsung is shipping samples of their new NAND technology memories for better speeds and lower power consumption, and the new Apple and LG news can only mean better prices and performance for us the users. The technology is light, much better shock resistant, less space needed which would make information safer and the laptop thiner and lighter. Apple is already using the technology on the iPod Nano and the iPod Shuffle music player, and plan to release the hybrid laptops in the second quarter of 2007.

About the hybrid LG notebook we have more informations though, since they will be shipping it in a couple of weeks and apparently it has a 14.1-inch wide screen display, BlueCore4 which some kind of Bluetooth 2.0, and will have a 1.3 megapixel integrated camera. It also has an ATI Radeon X2300 (120MB VRAM), 1GB DDR2 Ram and the 120GB2.5″ MH80 Hybrid Drive. It’s supposed to cost around $1200.

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