The humble hard drive is slowly starting to be made obsolete. Prices for solid-state drives, which use flash memory rather than a spinning platter to store data, have begun to shrink down in price to a level that the average consumer can begin to afford.

But...

OCZ has unveiled an unnamed external SSD that it'll be showcasing at CES next year. It'll be the first to feature USB 3.0 connectivity, meaning that it should be able to theoretically reach 4.8Gb/s, though that'll sink to more like 1.6Gb/s in real-world...

OCZ has unveiled a 15-inch gaming notebook based on the Intel Centrino 2 platform.

Why this machine is different is it is part of the company's DIY range - the idea for which is users get to "spec their own systems for their own applications",...