Re: [Thinkpad] Re: Thinkpad with a 800 meg HDD and no fan

Adam wrote:
> Sunday, June 20, 2004, 6:04:56 PM, Andrew in Ann Arbor wrote:
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>> > BTW Vicky, are you not using a laptop with a 800 meg HDD?
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>>That would be me, 560x with an solid state 800 Mb IDE flash drive
>>inside and a Viking 1Gb CF card in slot 1.
>>Not a power user machine by an means but OK for E-mail and totally silent.
>>Battery life is better than with a hard drive, reliability might be better.
>>Certainly no moving parts to fail
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> There is a fan whirring though?

No the mighty 233 Mhz Pentium II gets by without a fan.
Another reason I like my old 560x

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>> but there is some concern about flash
>>memory having some finite number of read (write?) operations.
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> If so, Windows would kill it all pretty quick.

I'm still waiting though I'm not entirely sure what to expect.
Massive read/write failures along with parts of the OS disappearing.
Netscape 7.0 has been flaky but apparently that's not unusual.
Hopefully having all my data on the PC card will allow me to quickly
abandon the system when it does go belly up.
AutoCAD and IrfanView still seem fine and I expect they both stress the
OS as much as Netscape.

-- 
Andrew in Ann Arbor
technology is the answer, what was the question?
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