Comment Re:But does it have a Hard Drive??? (Score 1) 252
Two reasons it will not have a built in hard drive.
1. It would add extra expense to the system, even if we assume that M$ wont be making any money on the machine they will still want to reduce the unit cost as much as possible.
2. Console users are a different breed from computer users, they dont want the complexities of Hard Disk management they want to stick a CD in and play straight off, PC users have some idea about how to use the file-system on their machines, Console users can't be bothered, and even if the game includes an uninstall option, every uninstall under Windows leaves files behind, because none of the uninstallers can handle the idea that a program can produce files after it's been installed, so after a while the hard drive is going to a) fill up with useless left over files, and b) become so fragmented that operation is going to slow to a crawl.
Oh and whilst we're at it, if it does have a hard drive then Micro$oft will be using Virtual Memory, and once again we'll be into the wonderful realms of 'The Game Of Hard Drive Thrash' because the OS has decided it has better things to hold in memory than the currently executing program (anyone else notice how Windows manages to allocate more memory for it's disk cache than for programs)
1. It would add extra expense to the system, even if we assume that M$ wont be making any money on the machine they will still want to reduce the unit cost as much as possible.
2. Console users are a different breed from computer users, they dont want the complexities of Hard Disk management they want to stick a CD in and play straight off, PC users have some idea about how to use the file-system on their machines, Console users can't be bothered, and even if the game includes an uninstall option, every uninstall under Windows leaves files behind, because none of the uninstallers can handle the idea that a program can produce files after it's been installed, so after a while the hard drive is going to a) fill up with useless left over files, and b) become so fragmented that operation is going to slow to a crawl.
Oh and whilst we're at it, if it does have a hard drive then Micro$oft will be using Virtual Memory, and once again we'll be into the wonderful realms of 'The Game Of Hard Drive Thrash' because the OS has decided it has better things to hold in memory than the currently executing program (anyone else notice how Windows manages to allocate more memory for it's disk cache than for programs)
