From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

"Dave Ings"  wrote in message
news:43f08dda$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>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.

There is an improvement (I have a SATA system at home), but noticeable is
open for debate. In normal, daily use, it seems fast enough.


Antti Kurenniemi

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