I've been to a number of pool halls that basically require you to have a "beverage" at all times. If you are found to be empty you either have to buy another or leave. This seems to have worked out alright and is easy for customers to understand.
No tickets, recipts, servers, tech support or other crap to deal with.
I think a lot of people overlook this most obvious answer. That is asking the people in your shop that if they aren't going to buy anything, make room for someone who will.
Well, for people that run disk benchmarks it's a real breakthrough. As you said, real world it didn't make much of a difference.
This thing looks really amatureish. Using an SATA interface when you're already occupying a PCI slot is pretty f'n silly. I guess you don't have to write a driver that way, but PCI (or PCI Express) is much faster.
Most people are going to want enough software (driver?) to copy/swap the contents to a HD as needed (well, Windows people anyway). With 4 gig max space you would ideally want something to swap the contents based on what you were doing since spending $150+memory to reduce windows load time by 5 seconds isn't really cost effective.
That and 16 hours backup power isn't enough when you're talking about having to re-install for hours if your power is out all day, your power supply goes out, or any other power related misadventure.
Most importantly though...
The device *empty* is as expensive as 2 gig of flash, retail. Between reliability, speed, functionality, and ease of use, flash seems like a much better product at this time.
I wanted the thing to kick ass, I really did. Unfortunately, for all the talk of shorting access time and latency with hard drives it just doesn't perform.
I discovered an awesome feature on my phone, in between the text messaging and e-mail and bluetooth and credit card and camera. It gives me the ability to hold a multimedia (voice only) conversation with another person. All I have to do is punch in some kind of locator code (similar to an IP address), and I can actually *speak* to the person.
It's amazing all of the nifty things they can pack into cell phones these days.
I wish my phone did that. I had to go out and buy another handset to do that.
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No tickets, recipts, servers, tech support or other crap to deal with.
I think a lot of people overlook this most obvious answer. That is asking the people in your shop that if they aren't going to buy anything, make room for someone who will.
Well, for people that run disk benchmarks it's a real breakthrough. As you said, real world it didn't make much of a difference. This thing looks really amatureish. Using an SATA interface when you're already occupying a PCI slot is pretty f'n silly. I guess you don't have to write a driver that way, but PCI (or PCI Express) is much faster. Most people are going to want enough software (driver?) to copy/swap the contents to a HD as needed (well, Windows people anyway). With 4 gig max space you would ideally want something to swap the contents based on what you were doing since spending $150+memory to reduce windows load time by 5 seconds isn't really cost effective. That and 16 hours backup power isn't enough when you're talking about having to re-install for hours if your power is out all day, your power supply goes out, or any other power related misadventure. Most importantly though... The device *empty* is as expensive as 2 gig of flash, retail. Between reliability, speed, functionality, and ease of use, flash seems like a much better product at this time. I wanted the thing to kick ass, I really did. Unfortunately, for all the talk of shorting access time and latency with hard drives it just doesn't perform.
Of course, I'm sure the comparison didn't say "the protection layer is almost non-existant in blu ray discs".
That's a feature, so you don't get bored of your favorite movies.
Actually the protection layer issue is supposedly mitigated by a new polymer coating that TDK produces.
If only the industry would apply it to other media.
The slightly dated slashdot story.
And the actual website. enjoy.
I discovered an awesome feature on my phone, in between the text messaging and e-mail and bluetooth and credit card and camera. It gives me the ability to hold a multimedia (voice only) conversation with another person. All I have to do is punch in some kind of locator code (similar to an IP address), and I can actually *speak* to the person.
It's amazing all of the nifty things they can pack into cell phones these days.
I wish my phone did that. I had to go out and buy another handset to do that.
It sounds like a joke, but I'm serious.