Don, your prediction is probably right, I'll stick to my OSX and UNIX favorites... I only use Windows where I have to, and will keep using XP there until I'm forced to update because xyz application or game forces me to go to Vista.
ME was a horrible experience. Charles On 5/2/07, Don Cooper <[email protected]> wrote:
While we're "On Computers" and predictions I'll try my John McLaughlin voice: >Vista will become the next instance of an 'ME' type, poorly received release.< Opinion, Commentary? -WaV (IMO - even with USB 2.0 - non volitle memory sticks are too slow to speed up any process. Useful as a substitute for older removeable magnetic storage, but about the same.) On 5/2/07, Charles Goldsmith <[email protected]> wrote: > > David, flash drives are becoming a very viable medium for computers. > Dell recently announced that certain models of laptops would have the option > for a flash hard drive, but at a steep cost. > http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/26/2049235 > > I predict that within 5 years, you'll find lots of computers having a > solid state drive. > > Lots of people are using usb flash drives as a part of their OS today, > moving their swap files over to flash for speed: > > http://lifehacker.com/software/vista/speed-up-windows-vista-with-a-flash-drive-221592.php > > http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2007/04/24/living-dangerously-moving-your-macs-swap-files-to-a-usb-flash-drive > > Windows XP won't support this without quite a bit of hacking, but it can > be done. It's not for the faint of heart though. > > One thing to note, moving your swap file over will work, but with cheap > USB Flash drives, it will actually slow you down, make sure you use a > quality flash drive that is built for performance. > > Charles > > On 5/2/07, David Locklear <[email protected] > wrote: > > > > A few weeks ago, I posted an idea about putting a USB stick on the > > inside of your computer. This idea met with little fanfare. > > > > Asus, a motherboard company, has decided to take my idea one step > > farther. They took the plastic shell off the USB stick and then > > soldered the flash-memory card to one of their newest Vista-ready > > motherboards. > > > > http://techreport.com/reviews/2007q1/asus-vistaedition/phison.jpg > > > > Of course, there are obvious disadvantages to this, like what if you > > get bad memory or your memory later fries. Or you decide you like > > it, but want more flash-memory. > > > > But with 512 Mb, you could "temporarily store" your current work > > projects, > > especially Word and Excel files. > > > > I think the main reason they are doing this is that they claim it > > "might" speed up the time that your Vista computer boots. But if > > you already have fast RAM, this new Vista feature, will not be > > improved by the flash-memory. > > > > > > Ten years ago, I worked for an engineering research company on a > > AutoCAD station. The computer had a huge 600 Mb hard-drive. My > > point is that you > > can probably find a practical use for a 512 Mb flash-memory on your > > motherboard. > > > > My prediction is that in another 10 years, computers will have a > > mother-board > > slot for internal flash-memory. It "might" use something similar to > > Firewire 800, and we will be talking about gigabytes. For example, > > Lexar, > > already has a Firewire 800 CF Card reader for their fastest 8 Gb > > cards: > > > > http://www.lexar.com/readers/pro_udma_reader.html > > > > > > In summary, now would be a good time to invest some money in a > > start-up > > company making flash memory. > > > > David Locklear > > > >
