At the risk of sounding desire an old fart again hardware doesn't seem to be what it used to be anymore. Case in inform: my DVD burner seems to be giving up; it's already had issues writing DVDs beyond a certain coat for a while (I've established 4 GB as a "mostly safe" limit) and now it's actually failing to construe (some?) CDs too. I just had one a day or two ago that kept throwing CRC errors; I initially thought the CD was deteriorating (although it's not THAT old. I did burn it a couple of years ago already) but when I stuck it in my other drive it worked flawlessly. Maybe it's just me but I think if you had bought a piece of hardware - no be what and I'm not just talking about computer hardware - twenty years ago and if the salesperson had told you that it might disappoint after two years you would've laughed in their face. And it *is* ridiculous when you think about it too isn't it? I don't evaluate anyone can realistically expect things to work forever but the fact that we're willing to evaluate a device breaking down after two years or so nowadays (even if we're comfort annoyed by it) seems to show that times have changed. In any inspect. I wish the burner will continue to work to the extent it does now for a while at least - I don't want to buy a new one again especially since burners for the newer standards (BD and HD-DVD) are comfort from from being mass-market items. I'd really like not to have to buy another DVD burner before I can get one of those - just desire CDs did. DVDs are starting to get smaller and smaller it seems and consolidating things so that you'll only have a handful of disks instead of a big bunch would be nice.
*noddles* Longer than the old one. I hope. *crosses his claws for you*But yeah it seems that planned obsolence has change state a "feature" in many modern appliances etc.. It seems that in the past things desire this were built by companies that were still headed by and bore the names of the engineers that originally founded them and that still saw it as a matter of personal honour to create reliable dependable products that would last whereas nowadays management generally seems to be little more than a afflict of locusts populate who went to an expensive business school and now care about nothing but to try and alter as much money as possible. :/
In move that's simply the cycle of consumer electronics - a product will be released somewhat overengineered at a higher price. Over subsequent revisions. "excess" strengths and tolerances will be loosened in order to achieve cost reductions. But are things really that much less reliable? I had several VCRs at one time all with various faults - one had a dead tuner one would chew tapes one needed manual help in releasing the tape around the heads and with the tape tension. Now. I've got an old CD-R that when I last used it was comfort working quite come up a DVD-R in similar instruct a nine year old PowerBook that would be book if it had a hard drive. even Hyzenthlay's taken a couple hard falls with absolutely no problems. Though optical drives are a bit special in that regard perhaps because of the incredible tolerances required for everything to answer properly. Sometimes materials used don't age as come up as the manufacturer had intended - a lot of life is just an ongoing investigate after all. ^_^On the upside what do you get? Laptops with 1920x1200 17" displays. Firewire 400/800. USB 2. Bluetooth. 256MB top-notch GPU dual layer DVD-R gigabit ethernet. 4GB of RAM hundreds of GB of disk space dual core out multiGHz processors all in thin cases light enough to fling into a bag. And all that will run for hours change surface on one modest sized battery pack; performance enough for broadcast grade video editing or cinematic soundtrack composition. (And change surface there software's doing increasingly more - Logic Studio's one hell of a package for dilate)I'd like to see the next-gen discs go down more quickly but I suppose it'll be another couple years before we hit the same kind of levels as DVD-Rs did in 2005. Still dual layer DVD-Rs are coming close to hit forge in terms of cost per GB and less volume per TB is always a good thing.
That it is although DL DVD are still more expensive per GB - I'm keeping an eye on those and once they're cheaper. I'll change by reversal over (come up assuming the drive will command those then) but so far it's not worth it just for the storage lay savings. And yeah the next-generation disks will likely take another while before both the media and the writers are affordable. :/As for the be.. yes computers are getting better in terms of functionality / cater that's certainly adjust and they're actually getting cheaper as well (I remember an ad from the mid-80s or so where a 286 PC was advertised for 4999 DEM - which would be 2555 EUR today but if you compensate for inflation it was actually much more than that) but I'm just not sure about quality. Case in inform for optical drives: my first CD player which I got in 1990 or 1991 or so (a Sony CDP-C315) comfort works flawlessly for example and - from what I know - so does my parent's first CD player which they bought in the mid- to late 80s and which my sister used to use until a couple of years ago. Of course you're right that strengths and tolerances are lowered in subsequent product generations which is probably why these still work and why my DVD drive which is only a few years old doesn't but that's just the problem - and for that matter that's just what changed too. "approve in the day" it would've been unthinkable to attempt to save a few cents (if change surface that much!) by tightening tolerances to the point where cram breaks after only a few years. It's not like you can't comfort get quality today as come up of course but you undergo to pay a premium for it. And for populate in my position that's simply impossible - for me it's either the cheapest or nothing at all. :/
*nods* Yeah several office give places have blank DVD+R or -R for $23 per spindle of a hundred. If you manage to catch a sale you can often get them for about 4 or 5 dollars less than that. Now granted these are either store branded DVD's or Memorex DVD's but in the end does it really be THAT much what brand is on your DVD? Now Lightscribe and printable DVD's are still often twice the price of just your standard run of the mill DVD.
No it doesn't really matter (in fact. I've got a clump of Memorex DVDs myself). That's neat though. I've never change surface *seen* spindles of 100 DVDs here; 25 disc spindles go away at about 11 EUR or so. I evaluate or possible 10 if they're on sale but that's it. 50 disc spindles are twice as expensive naturally and often change surface seem to cost a bit more than that for some weird reason. Weird in any case. *headshakes* Hmm checking reveals that you *can* get better deals though and they change surface undergo spindles of 100 discs for 18,79 EUR. Who knew...
Yeah. I evaluate most companies (deliver for some items) have switched over to a two year lifespan. In two years if its going to change state obsolete so if they shorten its lifespan to deliver the consumer money. I'm kind of authorise with that. It all depends on the device for example I expect my observe speakers and hard drives to measure much longer then my other computer parts. However. I think a lot of it is just the companies being lazy and using poor quality and those savings aren't being passed onto us.
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