Are engadget editors too young to remember that just a few years ago, almost all laptop drives were 12.5 mm height? They're using an industry standard drive height, its just less common these days with our ultra-thin lappys and high capacity platters.
Also, a good deal of external 2.5" enclosures are built to accommodate this height drive (since it is an industry standard), so that problem is really a non-issue. You can find a drive enclosure to work with this, but its likely that if you have one, it'll already work.
A few years ago... haha That is a long time in the omputer industry. Who is going to want such a large drive in a notebook that is several years old? Sure there will always be a few, but these drive will most likely be used in mammoth, spec'd out notebooks with 17" or greater displays.
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Are engadget editors too young to remember that just a few years ago, almost all laptop drives were 12.5 mm height? They're using an industry standard drive height, its just less common these days with our ultra-thin lappys and high capacity platters.
Also, a good deal of external 2.5" enclosures are built to accommodate this height drive (since it is an industry standard), so that problem is really a non-issue. You can find a drive enclosure to work with this, but its likely that if you have one, it'll already work.
A few years ago... haha That is a long time in the omputer industry. Who is going to want such a large drive in a notebook that is several years old? Sure there will always be a few, but these drive will most likely be used in mammoth, spec'd out notebooks with 17" or greater displays.
few years ago laptops were like mini briefcases
which is very useful if you mastered TIME TRAVEL so you can replace your 10 year old notebook's drive.