To: ShadowAce
2 posted on
12/23/2008 6:05:20 AM PST by
Red Badger
(I was sad because I had no shoes to throw, until I met a reporter who had no feet.....)
To: Red Badger
When I managed a computer retail store in 1980 in Boston we had MIT engineers pop by telling us about designs for computers with 1 gigabyte capacity.
Had a good laugh as we were selling 64k ram business systems for $6,000.
3 posted on
12/23/2008 6:10:18 AM PST by
AU72
To: rdb3; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; GodGunsandGuts; CyberCowboy777; Salo; Bobsat; JosephW; ...
4 posted on
12/23/2008 6:10:31 AM PST by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: Red Badger
Nice. Do SSDs run cooler than regular HDs?
To: Red Badger
Let me know when Win-doze allows boot-from-flash. I’ll be carrying my PC in my wallet!
To: Red Badger
...line up of NAND-flash-based solid state drives (SSD) with the industry's first 2.5-inch 512 GB SSD and a broad family of fast read/write SSD's based on 43 nanometer Multi-Level Cell NAND..."You lost me in the first sentence!
To: Red Badger
I ordered a Dell Mini9 netbook (6"x9")with a 32GB SSD to replace my bulky laptop for business travel. Arrives this morning and eager to see how it performs.
I have NOT seen these SSD drives marketed to desktops - any reason why not?
11 posted on
12/23/2008 6:17:07 AM PST by
newfreep
("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." - P.J. O'Rourke)
To: Red Badger
How much? Six months ago a 16G flash drive was over $150. Now they are $50-70.
29 posted on
12/23/2008 6:32:42 AM PST by
CholeraJoe
(It was a great party until the SWAT team tossed in the flash-bangs and tear gas.)
To: Red Badger
I've been in the biz long enough to remember IBM disk drives that had all of ten-gig capacity, and even before that mainframes with only 512K RAM. Of course they were the size of a large side-by-side Amana refrigerator and had power and interface cables six inches thick. So..... 512 GB SSDs are pretty impressive!
33 posted on
12/23/2008 6:43:11 AM PST by
Rummyfan
(Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
To: Red Badger
Mechanical hard drives will soon become as obsolete as floppy drives.
37 posted on
12/23/2008 7:32:26 AM PST by
The Great RJ
("Mir we bleiwen wat mir sin" or "We want to remain what we are." ..Luxembourg motto)
To: Red Badger
45 posted on
12/23/2008 8:14:19 AM PST by
Sender
(Never lose your ignorance; you can never regain it!)
To: Red Badger
OK.. you lost me after GB I must admit, ehehehe...
70 posted on
12/23/2008 9:17:19 AM PST by
tflabo
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