12 Nov
1998
12 Nov
'98
7:25 p.m.
On Fri, 13 Nov 1998, Tony Duell wrote:
If you're talking about a laptop then it makes a tremendous amount of
difference in the amount of battery juice it sucks up.
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friction
bearing. However I doubt they would be used in a ZIP as they
never had a good reputation for shock resistance. they would however be
low drag and help conserve power.
Yes, but in a desktop machine, power is not exactly short. In other words
whether it takes 0.1W or 10W to move the heads is not a major
consideration. So a jewelled bearing is probably not appropriate here.