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[badgerbadgerx2]

Still you have to think how are you going to live with the new reality, macs are like cellphones now days, there's no way to upgrade RAM or SSD.

true. many many things are that way now days. we have just forgotten the concept -- and its not as new as many think.

Thankfully we have M chips to deal with ram more efficiently, so you can budget accordingly, and external pocket size 1000 MB/s 2TB SSDs are $100. USB 2 was a joke, and thrumb drives are painfully slow. Zip drives. W00t. thermal fax paper. pagers. dialup modems. My first big drive was 40 GB MAxtor. 7200 RPM, ATA 133.

3/3/2000 -- How fast is the hot new 40 Gig Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 7200 RPM drive using an ATA/66 controller? XLR8YourMac recorded a sustained write rate of 28.6 megabytes per second using ATTO's benchmark. That's disappointing considering the fact that my "pet" 20 Gig Seagate Barracuda Ultra ATA running in ATA/33 mode clocked a sustained 26.6 megabytes per second. Further evidence that it's the platter/head speed, not interface speed, that limits the current crop of Ultra ATA drives.

and the internet. Im in CA, and have clients in FL, TX, TN, MI, MT, SC, NC, AZ and CA. Sending 200 MB in the old days = burn a CD and fedex. Now, just send it thru the cloud. We used 1617 GB of "unlimited" internet last month....

 

[enb141]

true. many many things are that way now days. we have just forgotten the concept -- and its not as new as many think.

Thankfully we have M chips to deal with ram more efficiently, so you can budget accordingly, and external pocket size 1000 MB/s 2TB SSDs are $100. USB 2 was a joke, and thrumb drives are painfully slow. Zip drives. W00t. thermal fax paper. pagers. dialup modems. My first big drive was 40 GB MAxtor. 7200 RPM, ATA 133.

3/3/2000 -- How fast is the hot new 40 Gig Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 7200 RPM drive using an ATA/66 controller? XLR8YourMac recorded a sustained write rate of 28.6 megabytes per second using ATTO's benchmark. That's disappointing considering the fact that my "pet" 20 Gig Seagate Barracuda Ultra ATA running in ATA/33 mode clocked a sustained 26.6 megabytes per second. Further evidence that it's the platter/head speed, not interface speed, that limits the current crop of Ultra ATA drives.

and the internet. Im in CA, and have clients in FL, TX, TN, MI, MT, SC, NC, AZ and CA. Sending 200 MB in the old days = burn a CD and fedex. Now, just send it thru the cloud. We used 1617 GB of "unlimited" internet last month....

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Yep, old times were a pain with slow hard drives, I was happy to get my velociraptor, that HDD was the only one at 10k RPM with 1 ms access time.

Upload speeds over internet were crap too (download wasn't that bad in comparison), to download a demo that was less than 1 meg I had to go to the university and take Floppy Disks to save it and test it later on my PC.