Josias said:I saw this in a local magazine few days ago. This thing weighs more than the 17" iMac. BTW, why would they bother putting in two 2.5" HDD's instead of 1 3.5" HDD. Largest 2.5" available is 200 GB. Largest 3.5" is 750...
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bbrosemer said:
Or maybe they just think the size of the laptop will make them look smaller in relationship to it
zap2 said:
@ my work we got a 17" desktop replacement with 320GB hdd and half the weight and less price than the acer 17#'er
Josias said:
Redundant means that there are more than one thing fulfilling the same function. A Raid setup constantly backs up data and then backs it up again on a group of harddrives, incase one fails there is always an extra copy.
MattyP said:
There are several variations on RAID. The two most common are RAID 0 and RAID 1, which are data striping and data mirroring, respectively.
Data striping writes half the data to each disk simultaneously, doubling the data transfer rate. It means lighting fast load times, etc, but also doubles your chances of a hard drive failure, since if once disk goes, all the data is useless.
Data mirroring just creates a real-time backup onto a second disk, so if one HD goes down you still have everything on the other disk.
There's also concatenation, which lets you take several hard drives and have the system view them as one large drive.
Who the hell wants a 17 lb notebook?!?!?!?!?!
Those people are just as insane as those that spend $2,775 dollars for a frakking stick of RAM.
Those people are just as insane as those that spend $2,775 dollars for a frakking stick of RAM.
dear lord, and i thought my 17" powerbook was a goliath ( i am anxiously awaiting a universal photoshop so i can get a macbook )
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