And it costs more than the old one?Bertster7 wrote:
The new MacBooks are rubbish. No FireWire - which for Macs is a big deal. Glass over the LCD, which is shit ...
I have two identical drives here, only difference being RPM and number of platters (100GB vs 200GB).ghettoperson wrote:
Then those are the first I've heard of. 5400rpm gives less heat and better battery life anyway.max wrote:
*looks at freezers and my laptop*ghettoperson wrote:
I've yet to find a laptop with a 7200rpm drive.
The 5400 uses 2.48W. The 7200 uses 3.1W. A power consumption of 0.62W (~20%) more is worth it for 25-30% more read/write performance.
The idea of any hi-fi system is to reproduce the source material as faithfully as possible, and to deliberately add distortion to everything you hear (due to amplifier deficiencies) because it sounds 'nice' is simply not high fidelity. If that is what you want to hear then there is no problem with that, but by adding so much additional material (by way of harmonics and intermodulation) you have a tailored sound system, not a hi-fi. - Rod Elliot, ESP