On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 00:04:45 EDT, Bill Davidsen said:

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> > I never imagined that itwas the 20%+ hit that is being described, and=
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> > with so little impact, or I would have switched to it across the boar=
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> > years ago.
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> To get that magnitude you need slow disk with very fast CPU. It helps=20
> most of systems where the disk hardware is marginal or worse for the i/=
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> load. Don't take that as typical.

I suspect that almost every single laptop with a Core2 Duo in it falls in=
to
that classification, and it's getting worse every year, as we see more
disparity between CPU speeds (increasing) and disk seek times (basically =
nailed
to the floor for the last decade).