What I would also like to know is if there is also an energy advantage to the SATA interface on a notebook. Speed is good and all, but battery time is also important for a notebook owner.

I am not a techie by any streach but I would like to get the best performance from my new laptop possible.

I am curious in lay terms what real wold performance gains are acheved by upgrading from a 5400 RPM drive to the top 7200 RPM drive.

By real world, I don't mean bench mark scores and seek times measured in Mili Seconds.

I mean things like Windows loads in x amount.
game loads in this amount
improves ping in online game by this amount ( If that is possible)

I mean some of this stuff seems to not have any real world diference dispite the 200 + upgrade cost.

Please dumb down or have a dumbed down conclusion especially for non Techies like me :)

everyone feel free to comment and aswer the questions I put forward.

Thanks!

hallo
mijn hard disk is nog new maar mijn pc kan dat niet vinden
bedankt

I want software test RAM,HDD,CPU...