Not trying to argue, but I have been ordering 7200 rpm drives factory installed in my Dell laptops for probably over 2 years now.
From: HELP_PC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 11:29 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: R: Why XP is doomed 15k for SAS were until a couple of monthes ago only for SAS 3.5'' .Now they are out also for SAS 2.5'. Manufacturers started now to ship some models of laptops with 2.5'' 7200 rpm GuidoElia HELPPC ________________________________ Da: Sam Cayze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Inviato: lunedì 12 maggio 2008 17.21 A: NT System Admin Issues Oggetto: RE: Why XP is doomed Ok, maybe the 80's was a stretch, I was kidding. But 72000 RPM 2.5" disks have been out for a few years I would imagine. At least three years I would imagine, since I have been working with laptops. Usually you have to buy them separately, as the manufacturer does not ship them. Even 10,000 RPM 2.5" drives are out now. SAS and SATA. I just got a 15K RPM in my workstation now. From: HELP_PC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 10:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Why XP is doomed You are wrong . On laptops 7200rpm disks are new! Some brands started now to distribute them on laptops and for workstations 10000 rpm SATA GuidoElia HELPPC ________________________________ Da: Sam Cayze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Inviato: lunedì 12 maggio 2008 16.48 A: NT System Admin Issues Oggetto: RE: Why XP is doomed I never buy any laptops with 5400 RPM disks. That's so 1980's. I throw 7200 in all our laptops, heat has never been a problem. Now, on an ultra-portable or tablet, I could see how it could be... But then again, there are many 7200 RPM drives that claim they are just as cool as 5400 rpm drives... From: Bill Lambert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 9:04 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Why XP is doomed Doesn't putting in a 7200 spin disk increase the heat factor? I always thought that was the reason some laptops come with 5400 spin drives to keep the heat down. Bill Lambert Concuity 847-941-9206 From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2008 6:46 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Why XP is doomed My wife has a top of the line Sony SZ48 series Vaio. Fantastic machine - carbon fibre case, weighs next to nothing, two GPUs. Performance out of the box is abysmal. I replaced the drive with a 7200 RPM disk, upped the RAM, and tried to remove as much Sony crapware as possible (it even comes with its own copy of SQL Server to manage your media - because WMP obviously can't do that). Runs a lot better now, but I suspect it'll run a lot better with a clean install. Cheers Ken From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 11 May 2008 9:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Why XP is doomed Check out this story: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=429 It's a perfect example of a manufacturer shipping a Vista machine with unacceptable performance. This resulted in a black eye for the manufacturer (Sony in this case, but they're not the only ones to do this) and a lost customer for the manufacturer and Microsoft alike. I didn't participate in the Vista beta, but I did grab it as soon as it RTM'd. I installed it on my home desktop, which is a modest box (Pentium D CPU w/ 2 GB of RAM) I built myself a good year before Vista was released. It ran great. Still does. Now, if I could run Vista fine on a machine that I built from parts that were never designed to work with Vista, why is it that PC manufacturers can't ship brand new machines that work as well? John From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2008 3:44 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Why XP is doomed Hold on there... If an OS requires new drivers and more horsepower... we can't blame the new OS? Oh yes we can. --Matt ross ________________________________ From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Vista wasn't perfect out of the gate, but it's not the piece of junk people think it is, either. A huge reason Vista has a negative image is that the hardware OEMs have been releasing buggy drivers for it--if they released drivers for it at all--and have been shipping Vista computers that either don't have enough horsepower or are bloated with crapware or bad drivers (or all three). It all adds up to a bad experience for users, and the OS gets the blame. No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 8.0.100 / Virus Database: 269.23.15/1426 - Release Date: 5/10/2008 11:12 AM ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
