Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 3rd Mar 2003 20:39 UTC
OSNews featured two reviews of the new 12" Powerbook from Apple last month. Using a machine and more fairly evaluating it, is a continuous process, so when new facts emerge, we should be reporting them back. So, what I discovered this weekend is that my 12" Powerbook doesn't like... the mountains. Read on, it is an interesting issue. Update: The issue is now logged at Apple's tech support db.
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I'd argue that that is in fact not the case. If a HD is malfunctioning, there could possibly be several paths to reset it *in real time* that may have to be taken by the driver. If I were the driver writer for a laptop, which only had one drive, I would definitely shutoff pre-emption, drop priority on everything right on the floor, and tend to my broken hardware *right now*. Some tasks require realtime --- the driver may even be doing a time sensitive diagnostic during those hangs. In addition, what on earth could you be doing that does not require entering a spin lock for disk access? Geez, this is a laptop not a oil refinery valve control! Almost everything requires disk access since some components within a running program can be paged out --- its the essence of performance optimization.
This all said, sucks that the drive is broken at 1900m, but please, don't blame the OS for trying to keep your box held together for you!
Thanks!