From: "Dave Ings" 

I do find disk I/O annoyingly slow on laptops. But then I find it
annoyingly slow on every Windows/IDE desktop I've ever owned. Doing more
than one I/O intensive operation at a time on a Windows machine is a joke -
coffee break time.

I've never been sure whether to blame this on the IDE architecture, Intel's
I/O subsystem, or Windows. It's seems clear however that improving this
hasn't been a Wintel priority. Since I don't own a SATA machine I don't
know whether there's any noticeable improvement due to SATA.
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Regards,
Dave Ings,
Toronto, Canada

"Geo"  wrote in message news:43f06c59{at}w3.nls.net...

> As an internet device the laptop is great, as a business desktop it's far
> too slow and expensive for many tasks. Disk speed and cost are still Queen
> and King..
>
> Geo. (upgradability helps too)
>

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