Yeah, it will be nice to finally break the 100 GB barrier in laptops. Those paltry 10GB hard drives they typically came with don't seem to be worth messing with these days because after loading all of the software needed to be "mobile", there's no room left!!!
ATTENTION THREAD-TRACKERS (CHANGE OT TOPIC COMING) A useful utility that I have been watching and testing is finally getting to the useful stage (it still has a few bugs in it, but I think these are minor now) http://www.osx-zone.com/#boot The utility is named BootCD. Waht it allows you to do is create a bootable OS-X CD --- very useful indeed if you need to fix a crashed Mac. Okay, BACK ON TO THE MAIN TOPIC again. On Friday, October 11, 2002, at 08:25 PM, Lee Larson wrote: > On Friday, October 11, 2002, at 02:51 PM, Jerry Yeager wrote: > >> I wonder if those >300gb drives will be high speed or not (7200 rpm or >> faster). If so, you could have a new video capable Mac with over a >> terabyte of storage space (alas, it will require an OS upgrade to >> access all of the drive space though). If not, these could make >> network attached storage devices worth buying -- that one is a bit of >> a stretch as it is cheaper to buy a computer with lots of drive space >> and use it as a server. > > You could partition it into a couple of 120s and a tiny 60. > I guess the 60 would be the spot to either put the OS or put the swap file... > It's amazing how fast storage is changing. > > It won't be too long before 100+ GB drives are the norm. It wasn't too > long ago that I installed an "enormous" 20 GB drive. Now I don't even > look at the sale prices for drives under 60 GB. I just bought a new > laptop with a 30 GB drive, and am a little annoyed that the hard drive > is so small, but I console myself by knowing a 100 GB upgrade will > probably be cheap by next summer. > > A DVD seemed like an enormous disk at one time. Now I copy them to my > hard drive so I can return the disk to Blockbuster and watch the movie > later. > And soon we will have 4X DVD writers. I wonder if Moores' Law will be applied to the peripherals as well? (Moore's Law: The processor power of computers will double from the previous state every 18 months or so) Jerry > > The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be October 22 > For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of > activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>. > > > > The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be October 22 For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
