If Tenerife is divided into three, then Costa Adeja in the southern part of the

island was given the lion’s share of both sunshine and nightlife. This is the main tourist area of Tenerife, and encompasses the long stretches of beach that make up the Playa de las Americas and Los Cristianos. This part of the island gets sunshine nearly year-round– you’ll get nearly perfect beach weather all the time in Costa Adeje, with only a touch of cool weather in late winter.

Tourists from all over flock to the sun and heat of southern Tenerife. Because of this, Las Americas and Los Cristianos have filled up with world-class hotels and resorts, as well as great golf courses, water parks, an a wonderful theatre that looks like it was transplanted from Las Vegas’s famous strip. Young tourists in particular are attracted to this area, as it’s full of great bars and clubs that are open 24 hours a day. Here, the party never stops.

Puerto de la Cruz

In the northern part of the island of Tenerife you’ll find the second major tourist city, Puerto de la Cruz. Puerto de la Cruz, though full of nightlife and fun things to do, strikes quite a contrast with Las Americas and Los Cristianos. This part of the island is greener, quieter, and a great place to enjoy a bit of culture.

The town of Puerto de la Cruz itself charmingly combines the old harbor town it used to be with the culture of the tourists who flock there today. The town has a somewhat Northern European feel to it; both cozy and chic. It’s full of lush gardens, great open air restaurants, and inviting places to simply walk and breathe the night air. If you’re looking for a bit of culture, there are some wonderful pieces of history here, such as the Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Peña and the Castillo de San Felipe.

Not all the best sunbathing and swimming spots in Tenerife are on the southern coast. Puerto de la Cruz boasts the Lago Martinez, a group of gorgeous seawater pools designed by the Caesar Manrique, a famous Canarian artist. Also in the Puerto are the pretty volcanic sand beaches, such as Playa Jardin, and wonderfully lush natural parks, such as the Loro Park (home of the world’s largest collection of parrots) and the botanical gardens.

El Teide

Splitting Tenerife down the middle is the gorgeous spike of a mountain called El Teide. This just-barely dormant volcano is both beautiful to look at from any point on the island, and a lot of fun to visit. Taking the cable lift to the top of the mountain gives an eye-popping view of the island, and a hike along the silent and shady El Teide is a wonderful way to cool off and relax after a day of sun and swimming.

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Hard disc drive makers have been hit hard by the appearance of NAND flash drives. NAND storage capacity has climbed fast, and costs are shrinking, making the technology more feasible for use in personal media players. HDD makers are act in reply by upping storage and reducing sizes and power requirements on their own devices, but as NAND nears 60 GB, HDD makers may need to hedge their bets.

Unlike in the digital audio player market, the fight between NAND flash and hard-disk drive (HDD) on the personal media player (PMP) platform is far from over. The 1.8-inch HDD still has a firm grip on the PMP category that requires storage capacity of 20 GB or higher due to the cost per byte advantage over NAND flash.

Our consumer survey indicated that among PMP owners, hard drive-powered devices still account for a slight bulk of the ownership. On the other hand, the micro-drive segment (1-inch or the 0.85-inch HDD), which features a capacity ranging between 4 to 12 GB, has been hit hard by the NAND flash as its cost-per-byte lead — which it enjoyed during 2003-2005 — has dissipated, and NAND flash’s merits (durability, low power consumption and light weight) earn it the preferred status for the low storage PMP category.

1.8-inch HDD makers, mainly Toshiba Latest News about Toshiba, Hitachi (NYSE: HIT) Latest News about Hitachi, Seagate, and newcomer Samsung Latest News about Samsung, are fully aware of the threat the NAND flash is posing to their HDD business Over 800,000 High Quality Domains Available For Your Business. For portable CE market. Therefore, their battle policy include the following:

1. Maintain the cost advantage by enhancing capacity at the same cost. In September 2007, Toshiba launched two new 1.8-inch HDD models: one with 80 GB storage using a single platter, and the other doubling the capacity using two platters. Samsung made a similar announcement two weeks earlier.

2. Dress up the HDD with features that make it slimmer, more energy efficient and more durable. For instance, the 60 GB, 1.creep HDD from Samsung or Seagate is measured at only 5mm (0.2-inch) thin. The latest Toshiba 160 GB model consumes 0.32 watt of power in idle condition, compared with the 1.5-watt industry average.

Seagate has long been touting its G-force technology, an anti-shock feature that protects the drive by moving the heads off the platter when the device is powered off. Thus, during a drop, no parts make contact through the media inside the drive. All of these skin are aimed at keeping HDD as a viable option for portable device manufacturers.

3. Support CE-ATA, a portable CE-friendly storage interface. The new interface standard replaces the Serial ATA (advanced technology attachment), an interface well-suited for mainstream computing applications that emphasize faster data transfer rates but care less about power consumption. CE-ATA, on the other hand, addresses well the key challenges of a PMP design: cost-effective integration and maximum power efficiency.

The CE-ATA Specification 1.0 was finalized in March 2005. Since then, Hitachi has been a strong promoter of the new standard; Seagate has too conformed to the standard in its latest 1.8-inch HDD models. but, Toshiba and Samsung support both the CE-ATA and the legacy parallel advanced technology attachment (PATA) interfaces on their 1.8-inch drives.

Flash’s Response

On the other side of the aisle, flash memory manufacturers are gearing up their production capacity and redrawing the roadmap to further challenge the HDD’s role in the market for portable entertainment devices.

According to the theory first publicized in 2002 by Dr. Chang Gyu Hwang, president and CEO of Samsung Electronics’ Semiconductor division, flash can double its density growth every 12 months. Like the famous Moore’s Law, the prediction has worked out quite well over the last five years as NAND flash storage ability grew from 256 MB in 2002 to 16 GB in 2007. Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) Latest News about Apple has by now incorporated the 16 GB NAND flash in its latest iPod nano models. If the theory continues to hold, the next milestone will be 32 GB in early 2008.

It will be just a matter of time before the manufacturers to ramp up production and bring the cost down to a market-acceptable level. Samsung debuted the world’s first 32 GB flash card in September 2006, follow by SanDisk (Nasdaq: SNDK) Latest News about SanDisk in January 2007. In early 2008, Apple released its latest iPod touch with 32 GB of flash memory — just what we have predicted for this capacity flash reminiscence to go mainstream.

Looking ahead, flash is expected to reach 60 GB or higher during the 2009-2010 timeframe, at which point it will begin to take away the medium-storage PMP market share from the 1.8-inch HDD manufacturers. Companies that do not have assets in the flash business have come to grips with such a trend. Seagate, for instance, has not only bent hybrid drives mixing both flash and HDD, but also announced map in September 2007 to make flash-based, solid-state disks from 2008, a measure to hedge its bets in the client electronic market, in our psychiatry.