Comments on: 228,571 Floppies is a Lot of Floppies

By: Benj Edwards

Benj Edwards — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:05:09 +0000

I have to agree that comparing RAM with mass storage space is not a good idea. Sure, the iPhone doesn’t have 16 GB of RAM, but if you wait a few years, common desktop PCs will have that much standard (and high-end PCs have it now). That would have made for a more intellectually honest comparison.

Still, I give ample credit to Harry for cooking up entertaining technology comparisons like this.

By: crazy

crazy — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:52:31 +0000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factoid

Factoid – an unverifiable piece of information repeated so often that it is considered to be fact.

The definition of the use of “factoid” in this article has become, itself, a factoid.

Long live the English language.

By: ediedi

ediedi — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:16:54 +0000

What's more impressive is that the iphone (or any recent smartphone), with 800Mhz-1Ghz processor and 512 Mb of RAM is better specced than a beautiful emac i used until recently – a G3 with 386Mb RAM.

By: the Goat

the Goat — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:15:19 +0000

Harry,

You seem to be an intelligent person. Why would you ever compare the amount of RAM in a device against the amount of non-volatile memory in a different device?

You even admit it is a bogus comparison in the article. And the worst thing is if you compared the amount of RAM in both devices it still would have been an impressive number. But not "more than existed on the planet. . ."

By: Max

Max — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 09:32:50 +0000

Intensedebate seems to not like my squawk tags…

By: Max

Max — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 09:30:29 +0000

Apples and Oranges. The real RAM/RAM comparison would not have allowed for the same headline, but is impressive and IMO meaningful where this is not.