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

[Hal]

Fair point. In the meantime, they do make 7200rpm, 8MB cache laptop- 
style drives... ;-)

On Jul 19, 2005, at 2:34 PM, Riba wrote:

>
> 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. :)

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