Who on earth at Sony thought that a mere doubling of a 15-year-old capacity would be attractive? Extrapolating present trends in hard drives forward a couple of years or so, a PC Card hard drive of this capacity is going to cost about five bucks. (OK, a slight exaggeration. Maybe.) If CD capacity was keeping up with hard drive capacity, we'd have 1000GB CDROMs by now. This 'new' technology is proof that we've gone from planned obsolescense to pre-obsolescense.
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Who on earth at Sony thought that a mere doubling of a 15-year-old capacity would be attractive? Extrapolating present trends in hard drives forward a couple of years or so, a PC Card hard drive of this capacity is going to cost about five bucks. (OK, a slight exaggeration. Maybe.) If CD capacity was keeping up with hard drive capacity, we'd have 1000GB CDROMs by now. This 'new' technology is proof that we've gone from planned obsolescense to pre-obsolescense.