Busting The Biggest PC Myths

Comments

1. 
   15 Jul 2004 ~ 9:37pm TheBaron what about hugely common myth #1, the most important one in fact:
   
   MACS ARE GOOD
2. 
   15 Jul 2004 ~ 9:39pm Thrax #2 myth:
   
   Intel CPUs are the most compatible.
3. 
   16 Jul 2004 ~ 1:33am EMT A few of those were good to learn about... but a lot of it I don't trust. I mean, come on... "We didn't check disk fragmentation because some hard-drive experts told us that defragging today's faster, bigger drives has little to no effect on performance."
   I have a feeling this guy doesn't know that much about what he's talking about - this was in testing for problems pulling power instead of shutting down.
4. 
   17 Jul 2004 ~ 4:05am yagga some bad, some right, some look like they were made up on the spot, for example "You'll mess things up if you unplug a usb device without disabling it first" ---and this is rated at 3 where as the magnet deal is rated at 4 (meaning less truthful rumor). I bet if you had a good magnet, or an electro magnet that you could completely shred data up, come on, the data is written with magnets mostly to begin with.
5. 
   17 Jul 2004 ~ 4:18am Thrax Yes, but who has a powerful electromagnet sitting around their PC? It's not like you're going to walk up to your HDD with a degaussing rifle and wipe your data.
   
   Fact of the matter is, HDD armatures are positioned via neodymium-iron-boron (rare earth) magnets. They're powerful enough to do the old move a magnet through the table trick with 2 inches of wood between them and they're not much bigger than one dime wide, two dimes long and three dimes thick. They're a hell of a lot more powerful than any magnet most of us have laying around.