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Who Needs MemoWeb?
Even though MemoWeb is really easy to use and set up, I don't really see a use for it, which is the biggest problem. You can just as easily view the website on the Internet, then you could avoid having to download it. While I was testing this, I downloaded the entire OnePC site on my cable modem; this took me around 16 minutes. I know this doesn't seem like a long time, but I could've just as easily looked at what I wanted to without having to download the site, and it would have taken me about the same amount of time. I think this was probably aimed at people who had a limited amount of Internet time. The problem is that it will take those people so long to download the entire site, because they will have a dial-up connection, that they could have used that time just to look at the site and then they wouldn't have to download it. Also, more and more people have broadband access to the Internet these days, so they don't have to worry about using up Internet time.
I would also rather not have all these websites on my hard drive. They don't seem to take up a lot of space, but if you have a fair amount on your computer, you can use up a fair amount. Even if you have a huge hard drive and you don't have to worry about space, I'd still prefer just to leave the website on the server's computer.
I can see some uses for it, though: if you're on a 56k modem, for example. You can just download the html files, which would only take about a minute; therefore, if you want to read a huge review or something on the net, you don't have to be connected. You can go back and read all the reviews without having to connect to the Internet to find them. Also, if you know a page is going to go down, you can download it and keep it forever.
As I said before, each set of items that you can download has their own pros and cons, but normally the cons out weigh the pros. First off, downloading the entire site. This is time consuming! On my cable modem it took me 16 minutes to download the entire OnePC website; imagine that on a 56k modem! But, you then have the entire page to look at whenever you want. I don't think it's really worth it though, you could probably look at what you want in the time it takes to download. Next is downloading all the images of the site/directory. It's nice if you find a page with a whole ton of images that you love. But normally, do you really want all those images? Most of them you'll never even look at. Downloading all the audio files on the site/page. This is GREAT if you're on an MP3 site with all kinds of great music! But, what if you only want one or two songs? Then you have all this unwanted music and wasted bandwidth. You can download the compressed files on the site, but sometimes this can be a lot of files! Finally, downloading the html pages only is the most useful of them all. When you do this, you can read whatever's on the site and you don't have to be connected. Also, most of the time, the html files are small, so it wouldn't take any time at all.
On to: Conclusion
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