How bout SSDs?
SSD's use much faster technology than your average Flash Memory- my point was that saying "Flash is faster than magnetic hard drives" isn't always true. Whether the iPod, iPad, or iWhatever uses an SSD, I don't know, and honestly don't care.
and isn't iOS an extremely stripped down version of OSX? because they both run .app files, they both are based on UNIX, etc.
Yes, that is my point. Saying that a tablet PC is running iOS is the equivalent of saying that you have a tablet PC running Android or Windows Phone. They aren't desktop operating systems, and a tablet PC by definition should be just as capable as a PC. Can you run, for example, Final Cut Pro on a iPad? Of Course not. And of course the whole "based on UNIX" thing is just a load of nothing, because it is meaningless. Apple fans like to repeat that over and over, as if being based on UNIX suddenly makes it inherently secure. It does not.
In that way I must agree with Geek-9pm; this makes 1TB drives a more economical (space-wise, if not money wise yet) option for both laptops as well as tablet PCs. SSDs are faster, but, they also cost a *censored* of a lot more per MB/GB.