On Monday 15 September 2003 10:57 am, Pascal Terjan wrote:
> Buchan Milne wrote:
> > Warly wrote:
> >>A poll on club shows that (now) most of the users prefers 700 MB
> >>discs over 650 MB ones.
> >>
> >>WDYT?
> >
> > Most users have >=128MB ram, but I don't see us adding features to the
> > installer to take advantage of the extra ram.
> >
> > Remember your minimum requirements. Machines which only just make those
> > requirements are likely to have an older CD-ROM drive, thus we are
> > likely to find users who have problems if we use 700MB.
> >
> > What is the difference between having 700MB CDs, and having 3 650MB CDs
> > and a fourth 150MB CD? It's the same space on the mirror, and it costs
> > the user only an extra $0.50 (well, that's what CD-Rs cost here). Buying
> > a new CD-ROM drive for all the < PII machines would cost significantly
> > more ...
>
> The oldest CDROM drive I got, a cheap 4X from Mitsumi can read 700MB CD.
> I bought it while I still had a 486 DX4 100...
The oldest i have is a 2X liteon that came w/ my compaq 4 years ago. It
doesn't work w/ 700 MB cd's. Not that i use it but there are people w/
burners that old (like my mom who i gave it to). What if they (or she) wants
to burn the isos. what then. And of course there are just normal CD drives
which are older that can't read from those 700 MB cds.
I prefer 700 MB myself (and voted for these) but you have to realize there are
those out there who will be screwed. My philosophy is better them than me,
but mdksoft will have to decide which is better.
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