Dell

[BBenve]

Dell announced today that they will stop shipping machines with floppy drive....they describe this as a huge breaktrough........well.... guess who did it first ?? lol
They are going to ship 16 MB flash drive instead of the 1.44 Floppy drive...(smart idea here though...i love flash USB drives)

Let's be all happy someone is Making HISTORY here......by...2eh em" copyiing someone and describing it as a breaktrough...


YAYYY go dell....why don't you copy something else now??
What about...SuperDrive??

[MisterMe]

Originally posted by BBenve
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They are going to ship 16 MB flash drive instead of the 1.44 Floppy drive...(smart idea here though...i love flash USB drives)

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16 MB is not nearly enough. A good rule of thumb is that removeable storage should have enough capacity to boot the computer. You may use other criteria. However, it is difficult to see how 16 MB can meet any of them.

[lurk]

I believe that it is a USB dongle so you could not boot from it if you wanted to. There is a bootable CD/DVD/Whatever for the purpose of getting the thing up and running.

I figure the flash dongle is for sneaker net file transfers more than anything else. I have been known to put files on my USB camera to transfer them off my PB to a PC cause it was just the most convenient thing to do at the time.

-Eric

[MisterMe]

Originally posted by lurk
I believe that it is a USB dongle so you could not boot from it if you wanted to. There is a bootable CD/DVD/Whatever for the purpose of getting the thing up and running.

I figure the flash dongle is for sneaker net file transfers more than anything else. I have been known to put files on my USB camera to transfer them off my PB to a PC cause it was just the most convenient thing to do at the time.

-Eric

It is a good idea to have a disk that can boot your specific configuration. As for sneaker net, I used 1.44-Base-floppy to transport files from work to home. As my files became larger and larger, that was no longer possible. Fortunately, I got a new computer at work that sported a ZIP drive. I added a ZIP drive to my home computer and I was set. 100-Base-ZIP drive still serves me well. A 16 MB drive cannot cut it, at least not for me in 2003. It is very much yesterday's technology tomorrow.

[GulGnu]

"Let's be all happy someone is Making HISTORY here......by...2eh em" copyiing someone and describing it as a breaktrough... "

Given the cheapness of floppy drives, and the amount of legacy drivers and software that was on floppy, holding off on eliminating the floppies was probably a wise move. Hell, if you are a PC owner who didn't want a floppy, you can always just poke the bugger out.

"YAYYY go dell....why don't you copy something else now??
What about...SuperDrive??"

Dell has been offering 4X DVD / CDRW burners for quite some time.

Regards / GulGnu

-Stabil som fan!

[Stridder44]

The floppy is dead. It died a long time ago. I dont loke floppys. I am very much against them. Im glad to see dell doing this, but it doesnt change the fact the Apple had the brains to do it first. Therefor, go Apple!

[Gregita]

Macnn.com bundled this with news that Microsoft may have to lower software prices due to the popularity of the open source community. The readers had a field day with it...One suggested that Michael Dell do what he said Apple should have done years ago: liquidate everything and give the money back to the stockholders. I think when the cd-r and cd-r drive were released, it was only a matter of time before floppies vanished. Some computer companies (okay, well one) realized that years ago.

[chevy]

they should include a ZIP instead of Floppy... much easier.