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- Tue Jan 17, 2006 2:45 am
- Forum: General Macintosh
- Topic: powerbook hard drive advice please.
- Replies: 11
- Views: 530
Have to disaggree with this! I put a Hitachi 7200 drive in my TiBook 500 and the performance gain was impressive. This was three years ago and its still going strong. I use the machine to record 24 track live gigs onto the internal drive (partitioned) This was impossible with the original drive. In...
- Mon Jan 16, 2006 1:35 am
- Forum: General Macintosh
- Topic: powerbook hard drive advice please.
- Replies: 11
- Views: 530
Re: powerbook hard drive advice please.
am going to try to wait until gen 2 is out i had exactly the same intention however, i desperately need a laptop for summer period and the next generation will probably come out after the entire product line is intel-based. in worst case it will take almost a year but this thought is not based on a...
- Sun Jan 15, 2006 12:15 pm
- Forum: General Macintosh
- Topic: powerbook hard drive advice please.
- Replies: 11
- Views: 530
Re: powerbook hard drive advice please.
Would it be better to install osx as well as dp/reason/live etc.....on the the firewire drive? This might speed up things a bit BUT don't fool yourself, you can add faster HD and/or maximize your RAM but you wont gain too much speed. The problem is slow processor, slow motherboard, slow RAMs. A com...
- Sun Jan 15, 2006 8:41 am
- Forum: General Macintosh
- Topic: powerbook hard drive advice please.
- Replies: 11
- Views: 530
Re: powerbook hard drive advice please.
the hard drive is only 4800 rpm ... would I get that much more of a performance bump if i installed a 7200 rpm internal drive? or would an external 800 fw running on the pci buss do any better? 1) your hard drive is either 4200 or 5400 rpm. to my knowledge the 4800 rpm hd doesnt exist 2) I personal...
- Sat Jan 14, 2006 7:36 am
- Forum: Symphonic Instrument
- Topic: MSI Ranges
- Replies: 34
- Views: 4654