The article states... "PDAs, cameras, GPS receivers, MP3 players, DVD players and game consoles" are all components of phones now... HOWEVER, I would say very few people think to themselves "Hmmm... I'm want a camera, let's go buy a phone" or "Hmmm... I really love my gaming, I'll go buy a phone". Perhaps the features of these new phones will affect a purchaser's decision, but in my opinion second rate features (i.e. low res camera, low everything game console, extremely bare bones MP3 player, non-optimized battery life, etc.) found in cell phones will never replace other non-phone sales unless the features are BETTER on the phone, which will never happen, because IT'S JUST A CEL PHONE! Anyone who tells you "hey, I won't buy a camera, I'll just use my cell phone", was never seriously in the market for a camera to begin with, or is ignorant to quality and ergonomics. This would go for pretty much all of those features...
I hope I can clarify a few things about this question (I submitted it...)
1) My goal was to have the OS load completely into ram, and use the ram for any swap file/OS use, thus the flash card would not be constantly read/write.
2) Hard drives really suck the juice out of a battery. This may sound obvious but taking the hard drive out has more than tripled my laptop's usage on one charge, which was another reason I wanted to try the USB option.
3) When people quote prices of things, they need to also consider taxes, shipping costs, insurance, and the DOA/shoddiness factor, just because there is a hard drive on ebay or some other second hand place doesn't mean it's a perfectly working hard drive, and just because you can buy a $20 hard drive doesn't necessarily mean it's even compatible.
Thanks for all the input,
ry
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The article states... "PDAs, cameras, GPS receivers, MP3 players, DVD players and game consoles" are all components of phones now...
HOWEVER, I would say very few people think to themselves "Hmmm... I'm want a camera, let's go buy a phone" or "Hmmm... I really love my gaming, I'll go buy a phone".
Perhaps the features of these new phones will affect a purchaser's decision, but in my opinion second rate features (i.e. low res camera, low everything game console, extremely bare bones MP3 player, non-optimized battery life, etc.) found in cell phones will never replace other non-phone sales unless the features are BETTER on the phone, which will never happen, because IT'S JUST A CEL PHONE!
Anyone who tells you "hey, I won't buy a camera, I'll just use my cell phone", was never seriously in the market for a camera to begin with, or is ignorant to quality and ergonomics. This would go for pretty much all of those features...
Sorry, but this isn't the case. I bought the laptop of Ubid 4 years ago for $400. It ain't stolen.
I hope I can clarify a few things about this question (I submitted it...) 1) My goal was to have the OS load completely into ram, and use the ram for any swap file/OS use, thus the flash card would not be constantly read/write. 2) Hard drives really suck the juice out of a battery. This may sound obvious but taking the hard drive out has more than tripled my laptop's usage on one charge, which was another reason I wanted to try the USB option. 3) When people quote prices of things, they need to also consider taxes, shipping costs, insurance, and the DOA/shoddiness factor, just because there is a hard drive on ebay or some other second hand place doesn't mean it's a perfectly working hard drive, and just because you can buy a $20 hard drive doesn't necessarily mean it's even compatible. Thanks for all the input, ry