The obvious answer to your question is "YOU don't."
If you can't imagine why people would want 120GB of storage space in a laptop, then you've got a very limited imagination. Here's an obvious example, since you mentioned a Mac...
* A PowerBook user wants to edit a video project in Final Cut Pro. 30mins of video often involves editing around 4-6 hours of footage. 5 minutes of DV footage is roughly 1GB. So, a single short-length project is going to eat about 50-70GB of space... bring on the 250GB drives!!!
* Storing 10 of your favourite DVDs on your laptop will fill most of that measly 120GB, as well.
* With most games filling a DVD these days, 5-6 games could easily claim 30GB. 25% of the dish just got filled with games!
Gates: "24. When released in 1981, the IBM PC was available with a choice of three operating systems: CP/M-86, UCSD-P System and MS-DOS from Microsoft. Over time Microsoft's operating system became the most popular because we worked relentlessly to improve it, adding new features and other innovations to the platform <snip> and we helped developers to build applications for the operating system."
So, back then it was okay to have a choice. Consumer choice allowed MS to prosper eventually because it was technically superior, and they got a chance to prove themselves.
How would MS have felt if Digital told IBM they had to pay 3x the license fee if CP/M was not offered as the default (or exclusive) operating system? Provided IBM caved in to Digital, where would Bill be now? He'd be a witness for the prosecution against Digital.
I wonder how often Bill thinks about the startups he's crushed like bugs before they were allowed to offer their alternative. MS could have been a "crushed bug" back in '81... except they got treated fairly.
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The obvious answer to your question is "YOU don't."
If you can't imagine why people would want 120GB of storage space in a laptop, then you've got a very limited imagination. Here's an obvious example, since you mentioned a Mac...
* A PowerBook user wants to edit a video project in Final Cut Pro. 30mins of video often involves editing around 4-6 hours of footage. 5 minutes of DV footage is roughly 1GB. So, a single short-length project is going to eat about 50-70GB of space... bring on the 250GB drives!!!
* Storing 10 of your favourite DVDs on your laptop will fill most of that measly 120GB, as well.
* With most games filling a DVD these days, 5-6 games could easily claim 30GB. 25% of the dish just got filled with games!
Anyway... didn't take much wondering...
Well... here's how they could've died...
Gates : "24. When released in 1981, the IBM PC was available with a choice of three operating systems: CP/M-86, UCSD-P System and MS-DOS from Microsoft. Over time Microsoft's operating system became the most popular because we worked relentlessly to improve it, adding new features and other innovations to the platform <snip> and we helped developers to build applications for the operating system."
So, back then it was okay to have a choice. Consumer choice allowed MS to prosper eventually because it was technically superior, and they got a chance to prove themselves.
How would MS have felt if Digital told IBM they had to pay 3x the license fee if CP/M was not offered as the default (or exclusive) operating system? Provided IBM caved in to Digital, where would Bill be now? He'd be a witness for the prosecution against Digital.
I wonder how often Bill thinks about the startups he's crushed like bugs before they were allowed to offer their alternative. MS could have been a "crushed bug" back in '81... except they got treated fairly.
What does ... "hypocrite" mean?