Two editorials on Vista, from eWeek and Microsoft Watch. The former: "The looming choice for Windows users is either to stick with Windows XP (and older hardware) or take Windows Vista cold turkey. But Microsoft doesn't have to be so tough - Apple did it differently with the Mac OS X rollout." The latter: "How will Microsoft - and its business customers - cost-justify upgrading to Vista in the coming months/years? With Windows Vista, Microsoft needs to please at least two constituencies with very different sets of requirements."
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Member since:2006-04-20
"No, I'm arguing why throw 20GB disks out *if they still work*?"
There is no need to throw them out - I use them for all kinds of things (keeping backups, storing mp3s, linux file servers etc), but there is no reason why you should be using it on your primary OS unless you want to really limit yourself. Of, course, everyone has their own requirements - I do a lot of audio recording, and 192KHz 24 bit audio files and multisampled instruments like Kontact eat up hard drive space for breakfast very quickly, so I buy the biggest hard drives I can afford. If you are just doijng fairly light stuff then you might as well stick to your wee HDD until it craps out on you, but HDDs are a commodity these days, and 8 - 15GB or even 40GB is a negligible amount of data when you have hard drives approaching TB capacity on the market.
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2006-04-21
You're arguing semantics over 20 & 40GB disks in a world with 750GB drives and Vista ready computers coming with 160GBs or more?
No, I'm arguing why throw 20GB disks out *if they still work*?