On Thursday, February 6, 2003, at 07:07 AM, Steve Fuller wrote: > I was looking over the specs for the new AlBooks on Apple's site, and I > noticed that they are using 4200RPM hard drives by default in these > notebooks. Does anyone know of any reason that they are doing this > other > than cost? Is it heat or noise? When they charge $3300 for their high > end notebook, I guess I kind of expected them to use higher end > components (ie 5400RPM drives).
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