I buy much of my computer plus needs from a shop called Micro Center. They have a massive edge over the other big box merchandisers: their salespeople actually know what they are talking about. I subscribe to their newletter and last night I got my weekly teaser. This one, however, reminded me of how far we have come as a consumer nation and how far we may be going in the future. What I am getting at is they sent me a flyer to buy a Western Digital Caviar GP 1TB IntelliPower Serial ATA-300 Hard Drive for $130. It wasn't that many years ago that a 100MB drive was considered massive for that price and here we have a 1TB for a bargain price of $130. Simply amazing.
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What's annoying is how quickly you go through the space now. I don't own a television or stereo, so my entertainment media is downloaded mp3s and video on my laptop. I'm over half-full on a 320GB hard drive. My first laptop had a 20GB drive and I never came close to filling it.
On the plus side, "Iron Man" came out today and I had pre-ordered the download, so the movie was already sitting on my drive when I woke up this morning.
On the plus side, "Iron Man" came out today and I had pre-ordered the download, so the movie was already sitting on my drive when I woke up this morning.
epbrown said:What's annoying is how quickly you go through the space now. I don't own a television or stereo, so my entertainment media is downloaded mp3s and video on my laptop. I'm over half-full on a 320GB hard drive. My first laptop had a 20GB drive and I never came close to filling it.
On the plus side, "Iron Man" came out today and I had pre-ordered the download, so the movie was already sitting on my drive when I woke up this morning.
20gb!! I studied and completed my MBA 13 years ago on my homebuilt 316 chip pc with a 40mb hard drive. Using compression software I got it up to 60mb. When my fellow student upgraded from 2mb of ram to 8mb I thought he flipped.... How could he need more than??
Most of my assignments were submitted on a 1.44mb floppy.I remember the days when my dad used to tell me that one day you won't have to write with a quill son. Electrical things will do it all on a television and shoot the final page out of a grey box full of ink on the desk. Then he started taling about a man on the moon and music and pictures on a wristwatch sized gadget and I knew he was talking crap...
Right back to 1tb hard drives then.
Right back to 1tb hard drives then.
I cant understand how you fill 1TB!! I download with the best of them but after watching a film rarely keep it. If I want it again I'll download it again.
Why not but some blank DVD's (approx half the price for 1.5 times the storage volume
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However the fact that more people know what an ATA hard drive is is a sign of the times. (or perhaps it's something to do with the kind of folk that hang around these boards?)
Why not but some blank DVD's (approx half the price for 1.5 times the storage volume
) However the fact that more people know what an ATA hard drive is is a sign of the times. (or perhaps it's something to do with the kind of folk that hang around these boards?)
My first computer was a 486 with a 80 mb hard drive. After a year, it was full and I bought a 520 mb drive for a ridiculous amount of money, but told everyone that I would never need another hard drive, EVER! Then I put a 14.4 modem on that machine. Blazing fast downloads, usually within 3 or 4 hours! :lol: When I upgraded to a 14" .26 dot pitch monitor I knew I was a real man. 
Then I put a 14.4 modem on that machine. Blazing fast downloads, usually within 3 or 4 hours! :lol: When I upgraded to a 14" .26 dot pitch monitor I knew I was a real man. 
That's just showing off..... 
rabman5 said:...I would never need another hard drive, EVER!
My mate had a 4mb 3dfx graphics card, and I was amazed at that :dizzy: I mean, who needs more than 4mb in a graphics card :slaphead:
20gb!! I studied and completed my MBA 13 years ago on my homebuilt 316 chip pc with a 40mb hard drive. Using compression software I got it up to 60mb. When my fellow student upgraded from 2mb of ram to 8mb I thought he flipped.... How could he need more than??
When I got my MBA computers were big boxes in a computer room.
