Darren New wrote:

> My boss bought a quad-core Mac with SSDs. A few weeks later I asked how 
> it worked out.  He said "I never wait for anything." :-)

And that's the difference. With Windoze, just closing the CD drive is 
enough to lock the entire Explorer shell for ten minutes while it 
attempts to determine whether there's a disk in there. (Um, 
multitasking? Anyone?)

> With several SATA drives, it's nice to be able to copy at 80MBps between 
> two different pairs of drives at once.  Way nicer than lame-ass IDE.

My PC at home is all SATA too. It still takes forever for TF2 to start 
up. :-P

> And my net here is nicely peppy. At 12Mbps, I'm almost always maxing out 
> someone else's connection before my own. I can suck down an entire CD 
> worth of data in about 15 minutes, faster than driving into work to pick 
> it up.

Where in the name of God can you get 12 Mbit/sec? I thought 8 was the 
maximum that ADSL supports...

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