[Cube] Re: The Mini is so... small

[Riba]

On 2005.07.19, at 18:43, phoeniX wrote:

> Hal writes:
>
>> Don' forget the slower drive performance ceiling on the Mini, as  
>> it uses laptop hard drives.
>>
>
>    A minor sticking point, perhaps, but not for very long. I expect  
> we'll see high-speed (well beyong the current 4800/5400 range)  
> notebook drives in the not-too-distant future, with storage size  
> rivaling that of most desktops. It's just a matter of time.

I'm hoping that hard drives as we know them will finally die, and get  
replaced with solid-state devices. I'm betting that Apple will be the  
first one to put such devices in the mass market product, as always. :)