At a discussion of flash memory technologies to be included in Windows Vista and “Longhorn” here at TechEd 2006 this morning, Microsoft’s program manager for Windows Client Performance Matt Ayres confirmed to TG Daily that inclusion of hybrid hard drives will be a requirement for mobile systems that carry the Vista Premium logo, beginning in June 2007.
The good thing is that you are able to run Vista without such a drive, although it will not be ‘designed’ for it. The bad thing is, that these flash drives are looking to be extremely expensive. Either way, it just shows that Vista requires a beast of a machine to run reliably as seen in todays site article.