Laptop Hard Drives Rev Up to 5400 RPM
WinInfo | at | by Mike
Laptops have historically been an exercise in compromise, since price, heat and power issues forced PC makers to generally use less-than-top-notch components across the board. But in recent years, the situation has improved dramatically, and it's now possible to buy a spankin' game-playing mobile masterpiece that rivals even some desktop systems. One of weakest links for laptops, however, is hard drives, which generally run at 4200 RPM, a far cry from the 5400 RPM budget desktop hard drives and 7200 RPM mainstream models we now come to expect. But that all changed this week when IBM and Toshiba separately announced new 5400 RPM hard drives for the mobile market, meaning your next PC just might be a laptop. After all, how else are you going to watch streaming video clips of Laverne & Shirley from the bathroom?