Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 21:10:25 -0700 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@HeadCandy.com> To: dennis@etinc.com (Dennis) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mitsumi CD-ROM Message-ID: <199607170410.VAA25119@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 16 Jul 96 13:56:35 -0400. <199607161756.NAA22133@etinc.com>
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>> > Personally, yes, I wouldn't touch an IDE CDROM with a stick (though
>> > some of the new 8x drives are kinda tempting) though I still wouldn't
>>Why? 8x on a IDE CD-ROM is 8x a "standard" (cough) IDE CD-ROM, which in
>>my experience, is roughly equivalent to a 4x SCSI CD-ROM :-)
>>(Maybe one day, probably far into the future, after we're all dead and
>>gone, consumers will realize just how much PC hardware blows, and stop
>>buying things like ... well, PCs :-)
>Yeah, when you're spending taxpayers dollars those high-end 'puters
>are real nice! :-)
>
>With every purchase, a good consumer makes a value judgement. Frankly
>I get more utility out of 5 PCs than I do with 1 of whatever you recommend...
>particularly when its my money.
Well, when you consider that most of the stuff that is dirt cheap is
only dirt cheap because everyone got on that bandwagon and made it
dirt cheap by buying that stuff in mega quantities, you're kind of
shooting yourself in the foot. If you could have gotten SCSI to
achieve "critical mass" among the masses instead of IDE, it would
probably be cheaper right now (if IDE even existed after such a
thing).
Sure there's a balance. Maybe you just plain get more utility out of
a higher quantity of cheaper stuff. But on the other stand, sometimes
taking a stand for The Right Cause may actually help lead the clueless
masses in the right direction. Of course, only sometimes... it takes
a lot of convincing to convince the masses that you know better than
the used car salesman who works down at Circuit City now, and tried to
sell them that PeeCee with the IDE modem.
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