From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_gate.net)
Date: Sun Apr 23 2000 - 18:53:39 EDT
Steve...
touche' :-)
you're probably correct..
make it and we'll fill it up.. :-)
and then fulminate because theres not MORE capacity.. :-))
when i typed that, i was playing some music i had downloaded in the last few
hours..
(the only McGuire Sisters song i could find on the 'net)
its, 3megs..!
STeve Andre' wrote:
> I suspect lots, Bill.
>
> For me, I've made the transition to laptops as my permanent computing platform.
> This XGA display I'm using on this i 1451 is just so marvelous that it
> really hurts
> my eyes to have to stare at a fuzzy old Trinitron monitor any more. I
> really mean
> that. My headaches have gone down tremendously having used TFT displays for
> all my computers now. Then there is the mobility issue, such that I can
> write, or
> work on code wherever I am. I even have the advantage of having a built in UPS
> on my ThinkPad, something that I wound up appreciating at work about two weeks
> ago when the power glitched for two seconds. Everyone else's computers
> rebooted
> but mine...
>
> So I think that more and more people are going to be demanding large disk
> drives.
> Personally, I could use 300G of disk on my laptop. I've always wanted to have
> everything I've ever done with computers near me, and huge drive on my laptop
> would literally let me carry a large part of my life with me at all
> times. Not a bad
> thing.
>
> Lastly, I'll point out that data like audio files and soon video files will
> capture folks
> imaginations, such that many gigs will be consumed that way.
>
> If IBM comes out with the 30 or 32G disks for us folks this summer, I'll
> upgrade my
> i 1480 to it. If they don't, then I'll get an 18G disk and fill that
> within a week.
>
> I really could use 300G. I know I'm not alone.
>
> --STeve Andre'
>
> At 03:23 AM 4/23/00 -0400, Bill Morrow wrote:
> >the A20p has an 18gig drive.. which points to 12.5mm..
> >the T20 (51U) has an 18gig, the T20 41U has a 12gig..
> >
> >and, in spite of my earlier 43gig comment, how many users really need 2 x
> >25gig or,
> >even 2 x 18gig on any one laptop.. ?!
> >
***SNIP***
-- Happy trails...** Bill Morrow ** :-) WEB page http://thinkpads.com e-mail: bill_at_thinkpads.com, penzance_at_gate.net
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