[ltp] Thinkpad model differences

[Ben Pfaff]

Tino Keitel <tino.keitel@innominate.com> writes:

> On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 08:30:46 -0400, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote:
> > On Fri, 2003-05-09 at 03:15, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> > 
> > > My T30 has 1 GB RAM.  That's enough to buffer a lot of DVD.  Just
> > > slurp it into memory in a few big reads instead of keeping it
> > > spinning all the time.

> A DVD with 1 GB of contents is somewhat...uhm... short, isn't it? 

Right, that's why I said "a few" big reads instead of "one big
read".  When you've watched enough of what's buffered that you'll
have just enough time to slurp in the next 1 GB (or whatever),
you start reading the DVD again.  Thus, you go through a (say) 10
GB DVD in 10 big reads, instead of in a 2-hour continuous read.

> I would rather rip it to the hard disk and watch it without a
> DVD drive.

The same technique could be applied to hard disk viewing.  Hard
disks also take power to keep spinning, though I imagine it's
less than for DVDs.
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