What happens if the devil swallows you?

[ivor]

I want VMWare for me brain!

[Griffin NoName]

I want VMWare for me brain!

would that help the headache I've been fighting all afternoon?

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

You can get those flash cards for cameras that are much faster than ordinary flash drives.  They are much more expensive though.  Then you can run Knoppix from a CD or a DVD and be able to save your configuration, files and such.  You shouldn't even need a hard drive.

That's what I was using-- faster than "ordinary" but because of the erase-issue, still slower than spinning metal, in total performance through-put ...

I'll look at the Knoppix thing-- and doing the read-only thing-- flash cards excel at read-only... 

[ivor]

I want VMWare for me brain!

would that help the headache I've been fighting all afternoon?

Yes, you could put the headache on the Microsoft side...

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

Too bad:  all they offer are SATA.... no good for an older laptop. 

I thought you were thinking on a full upgrade...

You can find SSDs for IDE/PATA but they seem to use a subpar memory controller in consequence write times are low (although read times are blazing fast).

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

I thought you were thinking on a full upgrade...

I was-- for my desktop box.   I suppose I did not make clear, I'd shifted emphasis to a back-burner project of making some "no moving parts" laptops.

Sorry about that chief!   

You can find SSDs for IDE/PATA but they seem to use a subpar memory controller in consequence write times are low (although read times are blazing fast).

Thanks-- the stats are on par with my CF cards in the adapter thingy.