From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_gate.net)
Date: Wed Feb 23 2000 - 01:19:03 EST
Intrestingly, the new machine will have an 18gig drive, not the 25gig drive,
which may explain the shortage of both..
DELL is eating up the 25gig drives and IBM is eating up all the 18gig drives..
the 25gig drive i have been testing in my 770Z is FAST..!
STeve Andre' wrote:
> At one point IBM was too conservative about things, then they started going
> too far in the other direction, I think. As an example the i Series units
> are great when they work, but they've had a lot of problems with them. So
> I think IBM is once again having to come to terms with the forces of the
> market, and figure out how to make things that they can make money on, and
> which people want.
>
> Dell doesn't have a 75G disk. In fact, they use IBM disks, of which 25G
> is the currently largest unit made. That 75G is when you use something
> called the MegaBay, which sounds lots like the ultrabay system that IBM
> has.
>
> It will be interesting to see what IBM shows for the 775; preliminary data
> suggests that it will be a real kicker of a machine. We'll see what they
> do...!
>
> --STeve Andre'
> andres_at_msu.edu
>
> At 11:02 AM 2/22/2000 -0600, Lestari, Ruby wrote:
> >I seriously believe IBM need a mojor reconstruction for
> >Thinkpad...
> >So far, all the competitors, namely Dell, Toshiba, etc.
> >have already use more advanced technology than IBM.
> >I believe Dell has almost 75GB for Hard Drive and SXGA+
> >monitor. All other high-level notebook mostly equipped with
> >2X AGP 3D video card with 8MB.
> >What's up with our beloved IBM's Thinkpad..??
> >
> >Ruby Lestari
-- Happy trails...** Bill Morrow ** :-) WEB page http://thinkpads.com e-mail: bill_at_thinkpads.com, penzance_at_gate.net
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