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Intel and Laptop RAID?
Might E. Mouse writes "The next version of Centrino, codenamed Napa, will support RAID. Intel is pushing it as a great way for business users to have added reliability and data backup on their work notebooks. Should boost gaming performance too. Anyone for 2.5GHz Pentium M, GeForce 7800 Go graphics and a 200GB RAID array? "
Sounds great, but what about battery life? That hing would eat a 6 or 8 cell Li-ion battery for breakfast. Why would a businessman want a laptop that is heavy (2 HDs and bigger battery) low battery life and bulky? Sounds good in theory, but doesnt work - like communism. In summary - that is the laptop for communists.
Because people want convenience (read: are lazy) and want to just turn on and off and never worry about until smoke comes out, but a tech (with a big S on his blue Spandex) says, "Nothing to worry about! Thanks to RAID!"
The extra drive will just make your battery last a little less longer, so you can turn your snarling, foaming visage to purchasing and rant about how you need a $*&@#! laptop with a bigger battery.
"phenominal cosmic power, itty-bitty battery"
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
You were thinking about it huh? A couple of days ago you say? It's a good thing i got to the patent office first then... MUAHAHAHA!
Which, on a laptop, invariably happens at 9.8m/s^2.
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
You never know with those whacky physics students....
I didn't know they still made $1900 bills.