[geeks] Advice on buying a new Mac

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Mon, 13 Nov 2006 @ 11:50 -0600, Lionel Peterson said:

> IIRC, a Firewire ext. HD can really speed things up, the idea is that
> you set your mac to boot off the external drive, and you cna use the
> slower (laptop) HD for backup...

If you get a 7200rpm notebook drive, will it run about as fast as any
other 7200rpm drive?

I've never compared notebook drive speeds, but certainl the 4200rpm
drive seem to seek and transfer slowly.

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