Re: New Member needs mass storage...

[Yann Nicolas <yann@dragon.jrn.columbia.edu>]

>I recently got a ThinkPad 701C with 8 MB RAM and a 720 Million Byte
>(what a scam) Hard Drive.  Least to say I though I got a good deal

Huh? What do you mean a scam? I got my 701C last Thursday (with 16 megs and
360 HD) and I love it. I had a ThinkPad 500 for 2 years and trust me color
and sound make a difference... My point is, the 701 is still a laptop. If
you really wanted real mass storage, you shouldn't have gotten a laptop in
the first place. Get a SCSI-based PC and get 9 gig drives for it... As for
my TP, 360 is a little small so I ordered a 720, but that should be
sufficicient for most laptop use...

>I considered the ZipDrive, but 100MB is too small, and the disks are
>rather expensive.  

That's what I use (at home and work) and I love it. If you have the cash you
could spring for the Jaz drive (from Iomega as well)... It cost $599 (for
the external version), but each disk (well more like cartridge) hold 1 gig
and is as fast as today's hard drives...
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Yann Nicolas
Systems Coordinator -- Columbia Graduate School of Journalism
nicolas@columbia.edu -- http://www.columbia.edu/~yn25/soccer.html