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The games Intel have been playing with processor naming have reached an all time high.

You get bluetooth 2.1 in this model ($1150): http://www.amazon.com/Sony-VAIO-VGN-FW465J-16-4-Inch-Laptop/dp/B0027P9BYW/

So Sony has announced their a850 http://news.sel.sony.com/en/press_room/consumer/digital_imaging/digital_cameras/dslr/release/41559.html To think that a 24 MP full frame sensor DSLR would be $2000 when the 1Ds MkIII entered the ring at $8000, that is impressive progress. In fact it could be...

I'm afraid that would lead to an overwhelming compulsion to buy one. Or the 16.4" series above this one with the 4670 video and the 2.53 core 2 duo. Right now a $300 120GB PS3 "slim" is my next object of desire.

Best health care system in the world? If you are a millionaire and can pay cash out of pocket without blinking then yes you can buy premium service. But for the vast majority of the population? Perhaps the worst in the world. Worst case Merc, get into the ED, rip that bandage of and say you...

Haven't been to the dentist in a good 10 years and not planning on seeing one anytime soon. If pain gets bad that's the only reason I would get in the chair.

I thought the font wars had been over since the days of Adobe Type Manager vs Microsoft?

Normally I would hesitate to induce buyers remorse but BB does have liberal exchange policies.

Can I ask how much you paid? The NW 160 with ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570 is $929 at Amazon. Seems like a small premium to be able to play games. http://www.amazon.com/Sony-VAIO-VGN-NW160J-15-5-Inch-Laptop/dp/B002A4CP3O/

Have you had a chance to try the blu-ray playback via HDMI?

My smoke detectors use two 9V batteries (they provide light when triggered). Seems like an application where disposables are still useful.

http://www.tregny.com/rent_vs_buy An interesting calculator (have to put your own numbers in for taxes etc) for the big decision.

Some links for jtr: http://www.albany.edu/edfin/documents/PowerpointPropTax.pdf And "New York State has the highest local taxes in the United States – 79% above the national average. Property taxes are rising at more than twice the rate of inflation and salary growth. When property tax rates...

Yes, in New York there was the STAR program, which tries to offset school taxes by exempting the first $30K of assessed value. Elderly under certain income limits qualify for enhanced STAR ($60,100 exempted). I believe that has ended effective this year, or there is no money to fund it. Still...

Clearly for the average home user the SSD is acceptable, however it would seem to not be suitable at all for certain applications I can think of, any server that handles a lot of streaming write I/O could potentially wear out in a way that just doesn't happen with a traditional HDD. Remember...

How is the power stability there paugie? You may want to continue using your laptop to feed the external drives to avoid corruption should the power go out with the external drive plugged into the wall.

To give you an idea, my mortgage payment is about 65% going to PITI, and 35% in escrow for taxes. The 65% is about what we used to rent at. So if you use a payment calculator to determine your payment to the bank, that won't be what you end up paying per month to the bank. You can be fiscally...

Oh yeah, at that price point it should be fine. But I know nothing about California rental/housing prices. Here in New York with staggering real estate tax loads it's a more difficult decision.

Always remember that a house is a liability, not an asset. Real estate taxes (in the US this can mean school taxes, county tax, local village/town taxes), bills for sewer and water, potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars in financing interest payments. You are going to put a lot in and may...

I've had no complaints with full leather Scarpas for bushwalking. Also have some Tevas that are good for water, but they are a little worn out from initial purchase in 1994. Time for an upgrade.

Yes those IBM SSDs are massively over provisioned like the other enterprise drives. When you need a device to keep running you do what it takes. Frankly the X25-E is enterprise in name only. I was just thinking what the hell TRIM or periods of poor write performance does to say an array of "E"...

Don't run chkdsk /r on a secondary disk (or thru the GUI) until a patch is out. Otherwise massive memory leak and the system slows to a crawl.

SSDs require an erase step before a write. When a file is deleted the OS may just deallocate that space. So a block could be available, but not erased. HDDs don't have the erase step.

The first season does help with comprehension. HBO is showing the second season now.

DV2 looks good but I will wait for Congo to release. Then it will be a desktop replacement.

From what I understand the 4770s make significantly less noise from the cooling fan, which may be a consideration for you.

http://hothardware.com/Articles/Intel-34nm-X25M-Gen-2-SSD-Performance-Review/?page=2

Nice. They really put a shitload of features in the 507 compared to the previous model. Are the speakers up to snuff or is that more upgrades down the track? :)

Got the blu-ray version of True Blood Season 1. Looks gorgeous.

Which receiver?

A story from a previous job: Manager was on-call so had his Blackberry in his pocket. He's backing in his new (second hand) boat down the loading ramp. In his haste he's forgotten to put the drain plug in. His son just watches the boat as it starts filling with water. Manager sees what's...

http://anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3608 "Intel Forces OCZ's Hand: Indilinx Drives To Drop in Price"

http://anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=3607 G2 drive brief review

Buck! Long time no see!

ATI 5000 series out in October I believe.

Were you already with AT&T? There are some nice Snapdragon based phones coming out shortly.

Some interesting under volting results with Phenom IIs. http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/14694/40/

Apparently a lot of netbook purchasers are dissatisfied with the performance, expecting notebook performance. Expect to see more CULV based devices being pimped by Intel, now Atom is recognised for the cpu sloth it is.

http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?locale=en-US&name=null&vgnextoid=8dda75f6f8472210VgnVCM1000001a48090aRCRD Seagate 15k.7 (600GB 15K) releasing in 6Gb/s SAS and 4Gb/s FC

Yes but the drive doesn't wear out based on read/write mix. The physical failures can be mitigated via RAID 6 etc. The E series needs it's cell erasing performance upgraded, hopefully with the 34nm versions.

The issue I have with the Intel drives is that even the enterprise models appear to not only choke but fall off the bus with heavy writes. 15K spinning disk may be slower in seeks but there are no wear concerns. For storage reliability is the prime consideration, have they learned nothing from...

IIRC your current Xeons are of the Pentium 4 gen. Core 2 is about twice as fast per clock cycle, per core. That said I wouldn't go with duals for your needs, a single quad core Phenom II cpu and mobo with PCI-E 2.0 will be a much faster base to add SSDs to. Adaptec make non crappy controllers now.

APC make a nice device that wires into your panel box, that transfers loads from mains to UPS/generator based on conditions. The nice part is you can define which circuits get UPS support, and which loads to shed first etc. Obviously nothing unheard of in commercial gear but the first I've seen...

Mubs, I would recommend the x series if audio quality is a high priority. And it is a very new release as you . If video is a priority, then the PSP-3000 with it's 4.2" screen is hard to beat. But you need a bigger pocket than for S9 etc, and mem stick max is 16 GB, with 8s being cheaper...

The ipod classics are hard drive based, is 16 or 32 gb of capacity enough for you? Sony x series at $300 and $400 are also in the category of the Cowon.

S1: http://www.amazon.com/Panasonic-VIERA-TC-P50S1-50-Inch-Plasma/dp/B001U3YJTY

http://www.amazon.com/Panasonic-VIERA-TC-P50G10-50-Inch-Plasma/dp/B001UAEWUS I think they have model lines with both LCD and plasma, the G10 has more onboard stuff for the Viera link (buying VOD from amazon etc). Given that all that can be done with an HTPC, the G1/S1? is more bang for the buck.

It would be worth the money to go to the 700 series Onkyo's IMHO. Right now I'm watching prices of Viera G1s and G10s. 1080p plasma is getting very affordable.

Doug, does your receiver by any chance have a 5.1 pre-amp input? That in conjunction with the 5.1 analog outs of an appropriate blu-ray player will give the high def audio (24 bit 48 kHz * 7.1 channels) that optical and co-ax S/PDIF doesnt have the bandwidth for. I'm running a PS3 via HDMI to a...

The % discharged figure can be inaccurate. Are you getting the expected number of minutes for a specific load? What is the displayed load vs capacity?