I didn't know they made 17 inch displays with such a low resolution. And a 4200 rpm hard drive .. where did they find one that slow?? I hope it's a ytpo and they meant 7200.
Have you checked laptop specs for the past few years?
4200, 5400 and I think they even have one in the 3000, have been a common trend. Lower the speed, the less energy it consumes, which is the selling point for these drives in a lot of laptop. Unless you are doing a lot of raw and massive data access, these drives will be perfectly fine.
A sluggish but energy-saving 4200 RPM drive is all well and good for notebooks where battery life is a big competitive selling point, but in a massive 17" "desktop replacement" laptop? Thats just silly. 4200 RPM is heinously slow, the performance and usability difference between that and a 7200 RPM drive in the same computer is usually quite stark so long as the system isn't otherwise bottlenecked. I've plopped a number of 7200 RPM Hitachis into older dell insparons to great effect. I would gladly loose 20 or 40 gigabytes off the drive in that Toshiba in exchange for some decent speed.
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Johan S @ Jun 22nd 2007 1:09PM
I didn't know they made 17 inch displays with such a low resolution.
And a 4200 rpm hard drive .. where did they find one that slow?? I hope it's a ytpo and they meant 7200.
I do appreciate the decent graphics card though.
zargon @ Jun 22nd 2007 1:29PM
Have you checked laptop specs for the past few years?
4200, 5400 and I think they even have one in the 3000, have been a common trend. Lower the speed, the less energy it consumes, which is the selling point for these drives in a lot of laptop. Unless you are doing a lot of raw and massive data access, these drives will be perfectly fine.
DiedFamous @ Jun 23rd 2007 4:44AM
A sluggish but energy-saving 4200 RPM drive is all well and good for notebooks where battery life is a big competitive selling point, but in a massive 17" "desktop replacement" laptop? Thats just silly. 4200 RPM is heinously slow, the performance and usability difference between that and a 7200 RPM drive in the same computer is usually quite stark so long as the system isn't otherwise bottlenecked. I've plopped a number of 7200 RPM Hitachis into older dell insparons to great effect. I would gladly loose 20 or 40 gigabytes off the drive in that Toshiba in exchange for some decent speed.