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Join Date: Sep 2005
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I cant decide if it would be better going with a 120gig 5400rpm hard drive for my powerbook, or the 100gig 7200rpm harddrive. Im not so much concerned with storage space as much as I am about battery life. Meaning which one is going to use more juice? Im assuming the 7200, but then I thought maybe with the higher capacity 5400 it would use more for all the searching of the platters. Im not sure. Any thoughts?
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Selfish Heathen
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Zone of Pain
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Faster hard drives require more battery power.
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Join Date: Sep 2005
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Is the modest performance boost enough to warrent the slight lose of battery life?
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Join Date: Oct 2005
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I just ordered mine with the 7200 drive. Only way to know for sure is going to hope someone benchmarks it, but I want all the speed I can get into the thing and the hard drive makes the largest difference in the system.
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Minnesota
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I think the very slight decrease in battery life will be worth the extra speed. Whether it's worth the extra cost as well... that's up to you to decide.
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Join Date: Oct 2005
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How much time would you say that you do multitasking including installing, compiling, transfering, or rendering on your laptop? I would call these everyday tasks for my pc hence why I wanted the 7200rpm drive, frankly though I would love to see SATA supported in the first edition of the Intel notebooks as it brings even greater performance.
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Purgatory
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