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To: greenspirit who wrote (91367)	10/30/1999 8:12:00 PM
From: xstuckey	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Why not a simple hardrive plug in positioned at the front of the computer to transfer the entire old hardrive into your new one? The OS could include the necessary software and automatically partition it for you. Michael, One of the best ideas I've heard. I believe this transfer is the #1 factor in preventing people from upgrading. Until your idea is adopted, I'm not giving up my 486 with all the financial records and naked women pictures !!! Best Trading, X

To: greenspirit who wrote (91367)	10/31/1999 12:23:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Michael - Re: "Intel should be working hard on encouraging the industry to standardized plug ins which allow this transition to be as effortless as possible. Although the industry has come far in the past 5 years stardardizing the ports. Much more needs to be done IMO. Why not a simple hardrive plug in positioned at the front of the computer to transfer the entire old hardrive into your new one? The OS could include the necessary software and automatically partition it for you. Removing motivational bottlenecks to consumer upgrades should be a real focus of Intel. " Interesting idea. But Intel ALREADY offers a solution to your problem - Intel's AnyPOINT home networking adapter. It's cost is more than a few dollars - about $180 for two computers - but it has much more (indeed it's MAIN duty) to offer than computer-to-computer hard disk transfer. EXISTING Standard phone lines are all that are needed to connect the two PCs, and Intel's AnyPOINT adapters connect EXTERNALLY via a parallel port or USB port - so no need to open up the boxes !(Note - Internal PCI cards are available if preferred !) With a brand new computer set up and running (OS installed and any NEW HARDWARE drivers installed - including AnyPOINT) the old drive contents can be transferred to the new computer's hard drive with simple copy commands - copying folders or files from one hard drive to another. Very simple. The speed isn't great - but it's not that slow - about 1 Megabit/Sec which is about 128 KiloBytes/sec . (I believe Intel should announce 10 MegaBit/sec) adapters by the first quarter of year 2000 - maybe a little sooner. ) And when the disk drive contents are transferred, AnyPOINT still allows the old computer to use the NEW computer's hard drives - as they are shared (and vice-versa) thereby allowing BOTH COMPUTERS to remain not only useable, but working off the same file structures. Further, both PCs can then SHARE one Internet ISP account and connection - thereby avoiding the dilemma of WHICH PC - old or new - can use an existing ISP account - they BOTH CAN - SIMULTANEOUSLY ! Your comments are VERY VALID - Intel just needs to EMPHASIZE the added utility of its AnyPOINT networking adapters. Paul

To: greenspirit who wrote (91367)	10/31/1999 7:19:00 AM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Michael, Great idea, from every perspective. John

To: greenspirit who wrote (91367)	10/31/1999 10:12:00 AM
From: Fred Fahmy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Hi Michael, Good points. Re: barriers to upgrading <Price and application seem to be the major two of course. However, I would suggest another important characteristic is "ease of transition".> From my perspective...price and application are minor compared to the pain in the butt involved in transitioning to a new system, including all the fine tuning and customization to make the upgrade appear seamless (from a software view point). FF

To: greenspirit who wrote (91367)	11/1/1999 4:18:00 PM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Michael, >>>Why not a simple hardrive plug in positioned at the front of the computer to transfer the entire old hardrive into your new one? The OS could include the necessary software and automatically partition it for you. <<< Great idea. Keep it simple. No partitions. Maybe like a docking station where you could also plug in a second hard drive. Do backups by copying the hard drive. Who has the time to backup to tape or Zip drives? And who does it properly, anyway? I'll bet a lot of people attempt backups but give up after a while because it can't really be done (right now). You can't let the engineers like Engels and the other super techies design these things. They think things like anyPOINT is user friendly. No way. I don't want to have to read a manual. I just want to plug a device into my PC or vice versa - nothing more. Mary