Patrick Elliott wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
>> - It appears that "solid state harddrives" are now reaching useful 
>> sizes and sane pricing levels. (E.g., when I first looked at this it 


>>
> Only problems are: a) slow (faster isn't much faster, and costs double), 
> and b) limited number of "write cycles". And, no, the 250GB one is not 
> $2/GB. lol



http://www.ebuyer.com/product/152605



As for "slow"... presumably the win is the massive decrease in seek 
time, rather than sequential transfer speed. (I think I saw a benchmark 
somewhere... but I bet I can't find it now.)

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Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Hey, do you remember the old PCs that used to have a "turbo button" on
> the front? Why the **** would you ever turn that off?! o_O

There was one thing they were good for: Older games ;)

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"St." <dot### [at] dotcom> wrote:
> > why don't they just make cases out of copper??)
>
>    Too heavy and very soft.

.... and maybe also more expensive? I mean, people actually begin to steal cables
from construction sites... and not by the spool, but by the yard...

And then I guess it's also heavier than Aluminum, which I'd suspect to be the
main reason for gamers to get an Alu casing: Carrying it to the LAN party.

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Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
> There were TSRs written for MS-DOS that did just that for machines that
> had faster processors but no turbo button. :-)

Yeah, but they used up precious memory, which the Turbo didn't ;)

In addition, the TSRs would make the system run a bit less smoothly.

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clipka wrote:

> 
> And then I guess it's also heavier than Aluminum, which I'd suspect to be the
> main reason for gamers to get an Alu casing: Carrying it to the LAN party.
> 

Magnesium. The ultimate in portability. My camera still blows me away, 
the chassis is a Mg alloy and feels like plastic.

Of course, I don't know how well Mg deals with heat.

-- 
~Mike

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On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:29:29 -0500, clipka wrote:

> Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
>> There were TSRs written for MS-DOS that did just that for machines that
>> had faster processors but no turbo button. :-)
> 
> Yeah, but they used up precious memory, which the Turbo didn't ;)

Absolutely.  Managing TSRs was always a lot of fun. (OK, maybe not).

> In addition, the TSRs would make the system run a bit less smoothly.

They could, but my experience was generally good.  Unless the TSR was 
poorly written, in which case it got used only once. :-)

Jim

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On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:46:14 -0600, Mike Raiford wrote:

> clipka wrote:
> 
> 
>> And then I guess it's also heavier than Aluminum, which I'd suspect to
>> be the main reason for gamers to get an Alu casing: Carrying it to the
>> LAN party.
>> 
>> 
> Magnesium. The ultimate in portability. My camera still blows me away,
> the chassis is a Mg alloy and feels like plastic.
> 
> Of course, I don't know how well Mg deals with heat.

I just had a picture flash through my mind (if you'll pardon the pun) of 
a case made out of pure Magnesium.  In my mind's eye, it didn't last very 
long, but it was spectacular. :-)

Jim

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Jim Henderson wrote:

> 
> They could, but my experience was generally good.  Unless the TSR was 
> poorly written, in which case it got used only once. :-)
> 

Sidekick comes to mind as a particularly troublesome TSR.

-- 
~Mike

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Jim Henderson wrote:
> 
> I just had a picture flash through my mind (if you'll pardon the pun) of 
> a case made out of pure Magnesium.  In my mind's eye, it didn't last very 
> long, but it was spectacular. :-)
> 
> Jim

Something like ...

http://macenstein.com/default/archives/1405



-- 
~Mike

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Mike Raiford wrote:
> Sidekick comes to mind as a particularly troublesome TSR.

But very popular. Indeed, Sidekick was why people invented the SysRq key.

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "Ouch ouch ouch!"
   "What's wrong? Noodles too hot?"
   "No, I have Chopstick Tunnel Syndrome."

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