Re: [CNET] Notebook Makers Prepare 1GHz Blitz

From: Tony Finch (dot@dotat.at)
Date: Tue Mar 20 2001 - 14:27:53 PST


Gregory Alan Bolcer <gbolcer@endtech.com> wrote:
>A gigahertz on the desktop is worth two on the road. Typically
>it's so crippled with batterysavingcrap and other power
>saving techniques that you'll never get anywhere near the
>performance.

The robustness requirements of laptop hard drives slow them down by a
factor of two or three compared to desktop drives. Very sucky.

Tony.

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