The entire world is now slowly shifting to Flash-based storage in mobile devices. The latest trend is to get rid of harddisks in your laptop - and you will have longer battery life, faster shutdown/reboot, better shock-resistance. Not to mention that flash memory takes less space than a harddisk.

Fujitsu follows this trend with their NAND-convertible Lifebook laptops:

Fujitsu is estimating that it will receive roughly 20,000 orders for its new NAND-convertible Lifebook laptops