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Zombie9920

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« Reply #15 on: 7 June 2003, 01:37 »
My god.Who actually worries about 1 measly GB nowadays? I mean shit, large hard drives are not very expensive. Look at this, I have like 169.4 GB total on this computer. If I give an OS 1.4 GB of space I don't care because I still have like 168 GB for everything else.



Do you know why large drives are getting so cheap nowadays? It is because Microsoft has a mainstream OS that is always being updated. New versions of the OS have higher hardware requirements. Naturally hardware manufacturers make new, faster and better hardware to compensate for OS needs. When manufacturers pump out new stuff the prices in the old stuff drop, drop and drop. Just because the old hardware is not the latest and greatest doesn't mean that it still is not good. example. Western Digital rolls out a new 160GB, 180GB, 200GB and 250GB. The 160GB is priced around the same price that the 140GB was selling for and the 140GB ones' price gets slashed down quite a bit. The old 80GB model is still on the shelves and in production and of course it's price keeps falling too. Now consumers can buy an 80GB hard drive for around $90-$100 in local stores...$70-$80 online. Realistically, that old 80GB 7,200 RPM/ATA133/8MB cache model is more than enough to adhere to most peoples' needs. That 80GB hard drive used to go for what the 200GB+ drives go for now, but are $170+ cheaper because of the latest and greatest taking its' place.

If it wasn't for mainstream software and OSes forcing new, faster stuff to be released we would still be using old, slow stuff.

If Linux and open source were the top dog in x86 we would still be paying $1000+ for freaking Pentium 233MMX w/3GB hard drive computers. Cheers to MS for forcing technology to be evolved. ;P

Some people just need to upgrade thier shit if thier system can't stand up to modern software. BTW, a Linux install can take up to 2.5GB+. Redhat Linux.....5 freaking CD's.....3 CD's of the 5 disc set are required to install the OS.

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« Reply #16 on: 7 June 2003, 03:41 »
Thankyou Microsoft.
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« Reply #17 on: 7 June 2003, 04:10 »
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Cheers to MS for forcing technology to be evolved. ;P



Cheers, lol

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« Reply #18 on: 7 June 2003, 04:56 »
uh...zombie. if microsoft didnt force the "evolution" of hardware (i guess that means faster comps, and bigger harddrives) we wouldn't need it anyways.

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« Reply #19 on: 7 June 2003, 05:00 »
Not exactly. Things like video editing, and high-quality audio would still require heaps of space.

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« Reply #20 on: 7 June 2003, 06:10 »
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Originally posted by ecsyle:
uh...zombie. if microsoft didnt force the "evolution" of hardware (i guess that means faster comps, and bigger harddrives) we wouldn't need it anyways.


Your talking about living wihtout the delight of Pixar movies. That's CRAZY!!

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« Reply #21 on: 7 June 2003, 14:50 »
I have a 20.5 Gb Hard drive - this sucked 'cause I had some movies. But then hallelujah I deleted 'em. And then damn my brother some music + some *.vcd files so now I have 1.6 Gb free. If I had money I would sure have already bought a 120+ Gb hard drive. But if anybody buys me a 120 Gb HDD, I would be very grateful  
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« Reply #22 on: 7 June 2003, 15:26 »
Why don't you wrap your brothers head in duct tape, then ask him if you can't delete his stuff. He won't be able to say you can't, so go right ahead and delete his shit!
This assumes it is a younger brother who won't beat you up or anything...

[ June 07, 2003: Message edited by: Tux ]

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« Reply #23 on: 7 June 2003, 20:50 »
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Originally posted by Stryker:


what the hell? download the windows 2000 CD (which is illegal) but buy linux (which is free)? You are encouraging him to brake the law and to pay a company money for a product before he even knows if he likes it or not? I'm all for linux and hate windows more than anything, but that's just messed up.



what i ment by this is to not support the shitty micro$hit company, and pay the linux company (e.g. red hat) for working to put out the product.  they do have a staff.
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« Reply #24 on: 7 June 2003, 23:41 »
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Originally posted by NikS:
I have a 20.5 Gb Hard drive - this sucked 'cause I had some movies. But then hallelujah I deleted 'em. And then damn my brother some music + some *.vcd files so now I have 1.6 Gb free. If I had money I would sure have already bought a 120+ Gb hard drive. But if anybody buys me a 120 Gb HDD, I would be very grateful    


Buy a CD burner. I've seen new ones decent speed $20.

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« Reply #25 on: 8 June 2003, 00:20 »
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Originally posted by Tux:
Why don't you wrap your brothers head in duct tape, then ask him if you can't delete his stuff.
[ June 07, 2003: Message edited by: Tux ]



ROFLMAO   :D