Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 21:23:12 -0800 (PST) From: David Chien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] 1.8" HDDs
they're probably going to skip over the 1.8" HDs and move right into the sub-1" market -- ala that latest Toshiba 0.8" HD. No point going smaller if you're not going super-small right? But whatever, I think it will take quite an effort to move smaller than 2.5" for now -- most laptop makers have standardized on it, and only the mini-notebooks are using the 1.8" HDs. Cost alone is a factor that'll prevent the migration to more expensive 1.8" HDs. As for connectors, we'll have to see -- they're still trying to see if SATA will work in notebooks, or perhaps other connector formats. I think it's going to be quite a few years before the mini-HD market settles on any format, and most likely, it'll be determined by what devices are the most popular and uses which types of drives (eg. nowadays, 1.8" in the iPods are really popular in sales, so that connector may become standard just because of volume production). ===== adorable toshiba libretto The latest news and information for the Toshiba Libretto owner. http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
