NEC has discovered a way to make a Windows XP laptop just a little more secure. Remove the hard drive does the trick, and in their “PC Parafield” system they’ve done just that.

Internal flash media takes the place of a drive for the OS and the storage of baseline software. I don’t know how trusting I’d be with the high I/O volume Windows tends to create completely running off of flash on my laptop, but NEC seems to think it’s a good idea, so who knows?