Re: Ping zara ZERO: Claims of file transfer


"Tim Murray" <no-spam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In the thread, Arstechnica reviews MacBook Pro, on 3/8, we had this, to
which
you never responded:

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Z: Not very impressive considering that the Dell is half the money.

ME: In an April 2004 review, a 9100 with a smaller hard drive listed for
$2786. Hardly half the money. NOW it's half the money, on eBay.

Z: Also the firewire transfer, 30 gigs in an hour, is painfully slow.

ME: I didn't see anything in the report about FireWire, other than the Mac
comes with only a 400.

Z: I did a 60 gig USB transfer in 15 minutes.

ME: I claim you're lying. Let's say you were using a metric values
instead
of powers of 2, even at USB 2.0's highest rate of 480Mb/s, you would
transfer
a max of 54 gig. And USB can't transfer 480 anyway, at a sustained rate
and
with overhead. Then, if you use kilo and mega as powers of two, the
numbers
get worse.

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Care to explain? If my math is off -- I just had my wee calculator and
the
back of an envelope -- let me know and I'll be a man and say I'm sorry.

All I know is, the transfer took 15 minutes.

Why don't you buy a Dell like mine and run a real time test, rather than
using empirical data.

I recall the post from a few weeks ago - did you lay awake nights for the
last couple of weeks mulling the numbers over?


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