Posted: 5/20/2006 12:36:25 PM EDT
I'm thinking about getting a laptop for travel, mostly for internet access , some work, and some entertainment functions. Say I downloaded a movie (Blackhawk Down) to my comps hard drive, how much memory would a movie take up?
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Most laptops today will have at least 20GB hard drives. With just an OS and a few applications, you could come out with about 15GB free space. RAM would really be irrelevant if you wanted to download a movie and watch it later, however, I'd recommend 512MB RAM minimum. That should work fine for some web browsing and video watching. Imagine your hard drive space as your garage. The bigger the garage, the more boxes of stuff you can store there for later use. Your RAM is your desk. The more RAM you have, the more work you can have on it before running out of space. |
Correct. Sorry about my poor phrasing. I'm just trying to keep the laptop as mobile as possible. No dvd drive, this lil' bugger is what I'm thinking of:   specs: VAIO® UX Series Intel® Core™ Solo Processor U1400 (1.20GHz). Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional 4.5" Wide SVGA LCD, Touch Screen 1 Integrated WLAN, WWAN, and Bluetooth® technology 512MB3 RAM and 30GB4 (5400 rpm) hard drive |
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Looks like you could store 4-5 full length movies on it before running out of space. Or if you used AutoGk to process/shrink the movies, you could get alot more movies on it. Free program, available here: www.autogk.me.uk/index.php |
Wow. Thats fuckin pimpy. 
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