SATA v. ATA100 and Seagate drives in laptops v. Seagate drives in PC's?
SATA (Serial ATA)is a new technology being used for transferring data from the disk to the bus on the motherboard. The standard for interface has already been updated three times. Possibly but not likely the wrong standard for the controller was mate...
Portable hard drives?
I have and would recommend highly a Western Digital Passport. They sell them on newegg link below, they have them in 60GB, 80GB, 120GB, and 160GB, I would recommend the 120GB that the one I have, but any of the other capacity's would be just as good....
Are laptops as good as desktops?
I'm going to disagree with all of the previous answers... The reason I disagree is that there are very few laptops that have the components inside that will match in specs with what can be put in a desktop. The exception would be high end (and high d...