8x faster? that may be true but it's probably hardly even noticeable. My machine is fast.
storage bottleneck?
hard drive = slowest part of any modern computer. laptop hard drives = slower than slow.
And yes the additional speed is quite noticeable for the things I do. Perhaps not so for the things you do, but that's why I have a desktop and you don't. Bully for both of us.
I don't know I can deal with having 2 systems, though. How do you keep your files and stuff synced between the 2? Like music, documents, etc?
Basically I never keep anything of significance on any of my portables. Just the OS, browser, maybe office. If I want to take something like music or documents with me, I toss it on a flash drive.
Keep in mind here that I'm not one of those people who has a 50 gig music collection that I absolutely can't live without. My entire music folder is 10 gigs, of which what I listen to with any regularity fits on my 1st gen Nano 1GB
