Late to the party here, but here is my perspective: the apparent speed of laptops I've upgraded has increased 5X or more just by changing the old spinning hard drive for an SSD. This mostly shows up in startup and shutdown, and launching programs. Some of us love tinkering with stuff and making it work better, but I'm unfortunately not in a location to be able to physically help.
On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 1:25 AM Nick Thompson <nickthomp...@earthlink.net> wrote: > I was about to give up on my 460 Gig hd HP because [it was old and] I was > running out of disk space, only to discover that the standard machine > offered by my university to replace it has LESS disk space. Wondering how > people are storing stuff. Are the days of buying larger and larger hard > disks and never making any decisions over? [sigh} Note that cloud storage > is not an option to me for half the year. Are people buying terabyte sized > USB drives and running software from them or telling some software to store > to them? How’s that work? > > > > Sorry to bother you with this. I know the rest of you have real work. > > > > Nick > > > > Nicholas S. Thompson > > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology > > Clark University > > http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove >
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