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Re: disk space. I got a big surprise the other day: I was working on someone's Toshiba notebook and, for reasons I won't go into, had to partition his drive into two, using Partition Magic. When I was done, I re-joined the partitions into one, exactly the same as the original, but, due to dropping the cluster size from 32 Kbytes to 4 Kbytes, he recovered, on a 1.3 Gb. drive (FAT-32), 200 MEGABYTES. I was suitably impressed. Yes, that will make access of larger files slightly slower, and no, it won't have that big an impact if you have mostly large-ish files, but 200 Mb for "free" is something I won't toss aside lightly. Ken Axel Hartmann wrote: > > Hi All, > > >The price of development, product quality, and materials aside, do you > >think you could even break even on marketing, packaging,shipping, support > >and labor. I think many folks who spent $$$$K on a laptop wont blink twice > >to periodically spend $ for some consumable items that are of known > >quality. I'd be leary of Cat's tounge bits flaking into my keyboard. Ya > >might even get sued if it damaged the keyboard and/or voided the warrantee. > > The cat's tounge trackpoint cap I got from IBM's EasyServe started flaking > after only a couple of weeks. I went back to a smooth one, but that got > cruddy after two weeks, so now I'm constantly rejuvinating my original > cat's tounges in an ultrasonic cleaner. Doesn't clean it all the way, but > definitely better than nothing or rubbing it on a pant-leg... > > By the way, on the other thread: low amounts of free disk space definitely > do slow down OSs a lot. Just from experience. It also makes defragging > futile since there's no room to maneuver. > Are the larger harddrives by toshiba, etc., also faster than the original IBM > 340 or 540 MB HDs used in the 701s? > > axel