[X4U] 64 vs 32 was...Re: move to Intel

[Jon Marett]

10,000 RPM SATA drives are starting to appear (if your mac supports  
them). I have a friend who put a couple of these in his new Dual 1.8  
GHz G5 and says they rock.

<http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822144160>

jon

On Jun 15, 2005, at 12:00 PM, Alec McKenzie wrote:

> At 13:27 -0500 on 15/6/05, Michael Winter wrote:
>
>
>> Lots of things add up to make a faster machine.
>>
>> Even things like how fast the hard drive is can make a difference.
>>
>
> In recent years personal computers have progressed in many ways.  
> Processors are faster, RAM and hard drive capacities are greater.  
> Yet the speed of the hard drive seems to have gone into reverse. My  
> Macintosh is six years old this month, and its hard drive runs at  
> 10,000 rpm. Yet in the present Macintosh range the fastest I can  
> see is 7,200 rpm. Why this decline, I wonder?