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"5,400s are better in laptops because they dont drain the battery as much as a 7,200 hdd."

They are not as loud and not as hot too. God I hate lap scorchers.

"Didn't I just read an article last week where hard drive manufacturers were dumping 5400 rpm drives because only 7200 rpm can even come close to competing with a solid state disk?"

5,400s are better in laptops because they dont drain the battery as much as a 7,200 hdd..

... for hitting the nail squarely on the head. One of the things that keeps me laughing at this site is the endless list of comments by users that go something like this: "I know it uses half the power, but it's 3% slower! Stupid Intel! Total crap! *chest thump*" Some of you guys need to realize that 90% of the computers sold will never be used for more than MS Office and surfing the web with IE. For those people, an ultraportable netbook that's cheap and runs for hours and hours on battery power is perfect.

Real soon at a store near you, a student special, a thin laptop that fits into a three ring binder, holes predrilled, or for $19.99 a three hole, do it yourself punch.

you do realize that making the drive smaller means putting in a smaller motor. that's the trade off for making the drive thinner is that it has to spin slower. Do you think this stuff is all magic? There are limits to what we can do. On top of that, do you think that a drive made for making laptops thinner is going to be in a powerful machine. Get your SSD and put it in a lappy with an Atom. Tell me what is worse, a 5600RPM CD drive or a 1.8Ghz Atom? Thin laptops are not made for speed, they are made for portability, who ever buys that drive is in no way concerned about there laptop performance...and get a desktop if you want speed, you will save about $600 that way, geez..

Didn't I just read an article last week where hard drive manufacturers were dumping 5400 rpm drives because only 7200 rpm can even come close to competing with a solid state disk?

Way to keep up with the Jonses Seagate. So your build quality sucks AND you are releasing new already outdated (yet slim) drives?

Good job... fire the marketing department.