Wow, that's an extremely helpful post, Mark. I hope your numbers are right. But I've read your posts before and found them informative. I'm still nervous about pulling the trigger.

When I said it was negligible, I meant negligible. Like 5 minutes total, if that. CPU usage is going to make a far bigger difference, as will screen brightness and wireless usage. …

You people rock. I am going to go for the 100GB, 7200-rpm hard drive. I will be using the fastest Powerbook ever. OK, I admit that it's not that fast, but I'm still excited. Thanks…

Thank you guys so much for the informative posts! tooki or mduell > You mentioned the speed differences were going to be noticed on seek/random read/write, but not much on read…

I would say that browsing in finder and launcing applications would be the two things that gain most from a faster hard drive. At least that is my experience from using other compu…

Why? Quote: Originally Posted by Lundh …. What I would like to know for sure before buying a 7200 2.5" drive is that it not is an Hitachi.

I know Dell uses the Hitachi 7K100 100GB (HTS721010G9AT00) 7200rpm HD. I don't know how it is but I'm hoping Apple is using the Seagate Momentus 100gb 7200rpm hard drive. Check ou…

striker100 is right, read the barefeats.com benchmarks, which are very informative. Noise levels are also listed. If I were buying, I'd be taking the HD upgrade $$ and sticking it…

Battery performance: Anyone wonder what voodoo would produce "better battery performance" when both the previous model and the present model have 50 watt-hour batteries? Well, che…

I have the new 15" and it gets about 45 minutes more battery life than my old 15" Powerbook. If your concerned buy an extra battery.

iomatic: Look at the benchmark striker100 posted, that is the reason I don't want a Hitachi. Seagates 5400 drives are just as fast and consumes less power.

Quote: Originally Posted by Lundh iomatic: Look at the benchmark striker100 posted, that is the reason I don't want a Hitachi. Seagates 5400 drives are just as fast and consumes…

Humor warning: don't read if you're laugh-impaired. You know how the ROKR itunes phone is getting bad reviews, how people are suggesting glueing a Shuffle or Nano to your present …

Quote: Originally Posted by Lundh iomatic: Look at the benchmark striker100 posted, that is the reason I don't want a Hitachi. Seagates 5400 drives are just as fast and consumes…

I read that report. However, they don't have the 100GB 7200rpm Hitachi tested, nor do we know which drives will be shipping with the new PowerBooks-- actually I think some of stock…

Quote: Originally Posted by Fusion Thank you guys so much for the informative posts! tooki or mduell > You mentioned the speed differences were going to be noticed on seek/r…

Quote: Originally Posted by robertj I'm thinking about buying the 15" Powerbook released today, and my main consideration is 100 GB 7200-rpm HD vs. 120 GB 5400-rpm HD. Will the …

Quote: Originally Posted by mduell Consider two drives: A is 120GB @ 5400PM, B is 80GB @ 7200RPM. For reading or writing a contiguous file (like copying a 5GB movie file), the …

I got a new 17" tonight. It's got the ST9120821A so I guess they are shipping these drives. It does seem really fast. Quote: Originally Posted by siflippant I've had this new …

Quote: Originally Posted by bcaslis I got a new 17" tonight. It's got the ST9120821A so I guess they are shipping these drives. It does seem really fast. That's good to kno…

I'm on my way to the Apple store tonight to pick up a 15 with a 7200 drive so I'll let you guys know what drive that one comes with.

Cool. I'll pipe in on the CTO (what does that stand for?) 7200rpm drive version. It left Shanghai at 2AM PST this morning (22nd). Gotta go rake the leaves. btw, bcaslis has the S…

Quote: Originally Posted by Fusion I'm on my way to the Apple store tonight to pick up a 15 with a 7200 drive so I'll let you guys know what drive that one comes with. That w…

the new 15" powerbook has better battery life than the 15" powerbook I bought last year, and it feels much faster, maybe it's the hard drive, but the specs are basically identical …

Quote: Originally Posted by inkhead the new 15" powerbook has better battery life than the 15" powerbook I bought last year, and it feels much faster, maybe it's the hard drive,…