On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 18:30, Max Waterman wrote: > Jens Peter Vilstrup wrote: > > On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 17:35:38 -0600, John Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>Here is a nice comparison with a complete micro-ATX system and the Mac > >>Mini in price. They are both pretty comparable. The PC can even be > >>made better by getting a cheaper 32 MB video card along with changing > >>a few other things while adding a sound card with SPDIF. > >> > >>http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=9450 > >> > >>I guess then the argument for opportunity cost would be exandability > >>versus the advantage of having the MacOS with included software. > >> > >>Any opinions???? > >> > >>I do wonder about differences in noise levels of the two systems though. > > > > > > He quotes the MiniMac drive as being 7200RPM, which I simply do not believe.
At USD499, getting a 7200 RPM drive in it would be a STEAL actually. > > I don't think it is a valid assumption that it will be 'faster' simply > because it has a higher RPM. And why would that be? Unless of course, one can order all the writen bits onto the Hard Drive to be sequential and thus reduce seek times or latency, it will have an effect of being "faster" > IIRC my (top of the range, at the time) > powerbook came with a slower spinning hard drive than the lower models > because it out performed them. The explaination was something to do with > density... Density is the amount of bits which is forced into 1 sector/cylinder of the drive. The more bits there are, the higher the density (DUH!). The density does not affect the "fast" but effect more towards the capcity of the drive. There is some tradeoff with higher density whereby the heads/electrical has a tougher job to do to to decode the data. This is tranparent to end-users. > > Perhaps you already know about this and can explain further? > > Max. > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 19:21:41 up 10:45, 8 users, load average: 0.65, 0.91, 0.64
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