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Post #114,054
by deSitter
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8/17/03 11:45:10 AM
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New Re: I do tend to think more in terms of desktop machines
I have a "high" RPM (5400) drive in my Thinkpad. It's not that bad.

And it's dead quiet. Spookily so.
-drl
Post #114,064
by hnick
8/17/03 1:14:22 PM
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New Varying mileage :)
I have seen some decent IBM laptops. I don't deny that some upper level machines are quite nice.

I don't tend to use laptops as my real workspace. I normally use laptops as test machines, which accounts for my point of view. If I use a browser to download a large file, an ISO disk image for example, I notice that it takes about 10 minutes, literally, to copy the image in the tmp directory to the final destination. I put that down to having one platter and one head which has to scurry back and forth to do the copying. I am aware that extra memory would not help that situation particularly. I just used it as an example really poor performance of laptop drives. I try to avoid doing anything that requires any real performance on laptops. They are either target machines or a portable terminal to a machine that I can use to do serious work. They're not bad for catching up on e-mail during boring meetings.

Again, that's just me. Varying mileage, salt, etc.

Hugh
Post #114,070
by deSitter
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8/17/03 3:51:28 PM
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New Re: Varying mileage :)
Don't know about Windows, since it's pointless to measure ANYTHING under Windows (there being no way to really change it) - but ext2 on this A31 is blazing fast due to intelligent caching. A global find command that returns 10s of thousands of files gets entirely cached and runs at processor and memory speed when executed a second time.
-drl
     ME laptop CPU/mem oddity - (tablizer) - (34) - Aug. 16, 2003, 02:52:08 AM EDT
         Re: ME laptop CPU/mem oddity - (deSitter) - (26) - Aug. 16, 2003, 03:25:05 AM EDT
             Choices? - (tablizer) - (25) - Aug. 16, 2003, 06:11:43 PM EDT
                 RAM is cheap - (hnick) - (6) - Aug. 16, 2003, 06:25:46 PM EDT
                     Doesn't more RAM eat up laptop batteries? - (tablizer) - (4) - Aug. 16, 2003, 06:43:34 PM EDT
                         I do tend to think more in terms of desktop machines - (hnick) - (3) - Aug. 17, 2003, 09:53:36 AM EDT
                             Re: I do tend to think more in terms of desktop machines - (deSitter) - (2) - Aug. 17, 2003, 11:45:10 AM EDT
                                 Varying mileage :) - (hnick) - (1) - Aug. 17, 2003, 01:14:22 PM EDT
                                     Re: Varying mileage :) - (deSitter) - Aug. 17, 2003, 03:51:28 PM EDT
                     Re: RAM is cheap - (deSitter) - Aug. 16, 2003, 07:16:32 PM EDT
                 Re: Choices? - (deSitter) - (17) - Aug. 16, 2003, 07:14:30 PM EDT
                     Sheesh. - (Another Scott) - Aug. 16, 2003, 07:35:06 PM EDT
                     If it came pre-installed, it's fine. - (static) - (15) - Aug. 17, 2003, 01:02:28 AM EDT
                         No. - (pwhysall) - (14) - Aug. 17, 2003, 04:10:19 AM EDT
                             and why? - (deSitter) - Aug. 17, 2003, 06:40:55 AM EDT
                             So sure are you... - (static) - (12) - Aug. 19, 2003, 06:59:16 AM EDT
                                 Re: So sure are you... - (deSitter) - Aug. 19, 2003, 10:23:54 AM EDT
                                 ME was pretty universally despised inside Microsoft. - (inthane-chan) - (9) - Aug. 19, 2003, 11:09:54 AM EDT
                                     The first thing you do with Me . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (8) - Aug. 19, 2003, 02:38:19 PM EDT
                                         Au contraire... - (admin) - (7) - Aug. 19, 2003, 02:40:34 PM EDT
                                             Yeah, but the clients get annoyed . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (1) - Aug. 19, 2003, 03:39:06 PM EDT
                                                 Yep. - (admin) - Aug. 19, 2003, 03:51:08 PM EDT
                                             *snort* - (deSitter) - (4) - Aug. 19, 2003, 05:55:09 PM EDT
                                                 ICLRPD (new thread) - (inthane-chan) - Aug. 19, 2003, 06:06:26 PM EDT
                                                 Dunno what color it was. - (admin) - (2) - Aug. 19, 2003, 06:40:30 PM EDT
                                                     Refund? - (kmself) - (1) - Aug. 19, 2003, 08:31:35 PM EDT
                                                         Many thanks!! Karsten - (Ashton) - Aug. 24, 2003, 08:31:55 PM EDT
                                 Windows ME and stability - (orion) - Aug. 19, 2003, 01:58:37 PM EDT
         Haha - (pwhysall) - Aug. 16, 2003, 05:47:46 AM EDT
         Get SpyBot Search and Destroy. Get Mozilla Firebird. - (Another Scott) - (3) - Aug. 16, 2003, 08:53:47 AM EDT
             Or, AdAware from LavaSoft or both. -NT - (a6l6e6x) - Aug. 16, 2003, 04:16:18 PM EDT
             I'm seeing a lot of damage from scumware. - (Andrew Grygus) - Aug. 16, 2003, 07:42:56 PM EDT
             seeing that a lot myself - (SpiceWare) - Aug. 16, 2003, 11:20:03 PM EDT
         current state of things - (tablizer) - (1) - Aug. 19, 2003, 11:23:10 PM EDT
             Licensing agreements. - (inthane-chan) - Aug. 20, 2003, 12:15:09 AM EDT

He clearly said, "To blave".
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