[Bobboau]

wow that's nearly twice what I have

[Liberator]

Originally posted by Thorn

Hard disk cache isnt comprised of disk space. Its RAM. When the power goes off, it gets wiped. If you look at the circut board on the bottom of  an internal drive you can see the modules. Why the hell would you put a few hundred megs of ram on a hard drive anyway? For one, transfer rates arent to the point that it would be able to fill that up ever, and two, thats more than some computers have.

I'm fully aware of what cache on a hard drive is.  I was just commenting that with a total storage space of that volume, an 8MB cache seemed a bit small to get any kind of performance.

[deep_eyes]

and im sitting here thinking im big **** with my new 120gig.... boi do i feel pwn3d.....

[neo_hermes]

*pats deep_eyes on the back* at least you've got 120gigs i still have 40gigs

[Sandwich]

Originally posted by Liberator


I'm fully aware of what cache on a hard drive is.  I was just commenting that with a total storage space of that volume, an 8MB cache seemed a bit small to get any kind of performance.

Irrelevant. HDD's cache size need to be relative to the computer's performance - primarily the data transfer interface speed (ATA, SATA, Firewire 400/800, etc). So while 1,000GB is a ginormous amount of data, the speed at which you can access that data is still quite limited by the transfer rate of the HDD and the interface it's connected by. As long as there are no quantum leaps in that speed, there's no need to have quantum leaps in HDD cache.

[Clave]

Full setup right now:

[Liberator]

*waugh*
A Mac?  Are you some kind of girly many?  And don't give me that BS about them being better for graphics and such.

[Clave]

*sigh*

Do you Pepsi or Coke?

[WMCoolmon]

Say what you will, the fact is that Macs have far, far more style than a PC. OSX is easily on par with the newest versions of Windows. I prefer my taskbar and quick launch to the launch pad, but at least Mac is showing some innovation and creativity.

Anywho, everything I've read agrees that Macs have a leg up on PCs when it comes to floating point calculations, but PCs are generally much better rounded. The graphics and video software you can get with them is very nice (Compare iMovie to practically any entry-level PC move making utility and you'll find that iMovie is simply easier to use.)

[Thorn]

Originally posted by Liberator
*waugh*
A Mac?  Are you some kind of girly many?  And don't give me that BS about them being better for graphics and such.

That has to be the most ignorant thing you've ever said. And you've said a lot of ignorant bull****.

[Clave]

I've gone a long way past these arguments, so each to thier own.  

I bought my first comp in 1988, it happened to be a Mac, because I managed to wangle an educational discount.  If I'd bought a PC, then I would possibly be arguing on the other side.  But the point is that it doesn't really matter....

[aldo_14]

Macs vs PC; who really gives a ****?  Buy what you like, whine about it if you don't like it, just don't ****ing whine about the ****ing machine you didn't even buy.  

 You don't hear people whining 'oh, Fords are ****e.  I've never driven one, don't own one and don't want one, but they're still ****e.  Buy a Peugeot instead'.  It's daft... anyone who really cares enough to argue over it, needs a good kick in the gizzards.

[Tiara]

Used 'm both.

Loved 'm both.

Hated 'm both.

[Liberator]

Thorn, do you understand the concept of sarcasm?  I wish PCs had half the style of Macintoshes.  The only fault I can find with Macs is that they lack in the software dept., specifically games.

[Clave]

I'm sure *everybody* understands sarcasm...

[Bobboau]

macs use too much propritary hardware and don't fit with the standardsa of regular PCs (hence why the are macs and not PCs)

what apple should do is open there standards and write an OS for an x86 procesor, and make it so someone could slowly turn there PC into a mac.

[Japong]

Was there ever any effort made to port FS2 to our mac brethren? They really do deserve a classic like that.  Of course, I'm not a dev, so I have not idea if it would even be possible or not.

Back on topic: I almost bought 2 x 250 gig drives, but after seeing that beast, I'm kinda glad I didn't. Maybe I'll just get a decent DVD burner instead, since they're so cheap.

[Hippo]

Meh, I've used mac's... Actually, I used them before PC's, and somehow i just like PC's better...

[Solatar]

As long as I have a web browser, h00ge speakers, and a CD drive, then I'm good...

[Thorn]

Originally posted by Liberator
Thorn, do you understand the concept of sarcasm?  I wish PCs had half the style of Macintoshes.  The only fault I can find with Macs is that they lack in the software dept., specifically games.

Yes, I'm quite aware of the concept of sarcasm. I don't know if you have noticed this or not, but its a bit difficult to convey any tone or emotion with messages over the interweb. If you're trying to be sarcastic, next time try using a smile or something to say "Hey, I'm joking". Otherwise, people will take your words at face value. Why wouldnt they? You gave them no indication otherwise.