Comments on: The Gigabyte Myth

By: Zigfred

Zigfred — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:59:55 +0000

I fully agree ! I use an ASUS Eepc myself. You don’t need lots of hard disk space.

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By: cartman7110

cartman7110 — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:03:02 +0000

Hey there. Nice post.

You’re right – not everything big is better. But sometimes it works too. Actually, technology also aims to make things smaller, cheaper, and faster.

As for hard drive. You’re point is well founded. There is typically no need to have a massive hard drive on a backup notebook not unless you start making this backup the primary. The only other reason on getting a bigger drive is if the cost difference is so small.

But I think the manufacturers are actually targetting the netbooks in the PH setting (since we’re a “poor nation”) as the first time buyer or low income family laptop versus a carry-me-everywhere-internet-appliance second laptop. Kaya they pack it with bigger hard drive options or end-users typically modify it.

My two cents.

By: Nap

Nap — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 09:18:39 +0000

In general, i don’t believe in the “larger the better” slogan. The default SD card in my DSLR is only 512MB when there are already 8-16GB models available. My ipod’s dinosaur hard disk has been serving me well since 2005. My phone’s 1 year old memory card is more than enough to keep show n tell photos of my daughter and a few mp3s of “emergency” mp3 songs (again, for my daughter). I’m happy with my 4GB flash disk (actually a gift to me) even if 8-16GB flash disks are now common.

BUT for my Asus EEE PC 1000H, I wish I had more space than the 80GB it came with. Currently, it is my main laptop so I wish my MP3 collection was already in there as well as the photos I’ve gathered from all my paid and hobby photoshoots.

And for my backup external harddisk, I wish it had more than 250GB in it because all my data are backed up there including the tons of video I’ve made all these years. It only has around 7GB free but I still need to backup around 8 hours worth of video in it.

I guess it depends on what you’ll be using the storage for. “The more the merrier” may or may not be always the best.

By: jhay

jhay — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:01:30 +0000

It all depends on how one uses the hard drive or device that holds it. If it’s a main work machine, then go for the big drives. If it’s a secondary machine, go lighter.

“Bigger is better” I think has been pushed by marketing campaigns.

By: Andre Marcelo-Tanner

Andre Marcelo-Tanner — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 01:53:16 +0000

i find the 20GB of the 900 great, even if the netbook was your primary PC, you wouldnt want to store everything on it because its not that accessible, you’d want to get a portable 300GB+ hard disk like a WD Passport to store everything on.