Hard drives have been the major system bottleneck for most computer users for years now. I'm surprised that it's taken this long for that fact to settle in AND for companies to realize that's the future growth area.
Video cards? Eh...unless you are a freak you can get by. I play most new games and get by just fine spending $200 every couple of years. Processor? The quad core intel I bought 2 years ago was dirt cheap and I have yet to saturate all 4 processors. --------------------------- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation <http://www.secureworldfoundation.org> Montreal Office +1 (514) 466-2756 Canada +1 (202) 683-8534 US On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Stan Zaske <swza...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Yep, Vista and Win7 are both very hardrive intensive compared to XP. Better > pony up the dough and get a solid state drive with the "barefoot" > controller. LOL > > > > Steve Tomporowski wrote: > >> I've noticed this 'problem' on both Vista and Win7. It seems like the >> system puts it's file manager to sleep, so that if you try to do a disk >> action, you get a substantial delay. For instance, I'll be playing a game, >> then I jump to email, when I try to drag and drop, there is a delay, I get >> the circle, then finally it moves the message. Of course, the next message >> goes quickly. The same with getting disk directories. I'll click on a >> drive, get the 1st half of folders, then the circle and then the moving bar, >> then it finally gives me all the folders. Of course, after that point, >> everything works quickly. My power settings are for always on, so it's not >> a power down. Anyone else seen this? >> >> Thanks....Steve >> >> >> __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus >> signature database 4537 (20091023) __________ >> >> The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. >> >> http://www.eset.com >> >> >> >> >
