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Very much the wrong side of $10k, based on the fact that their two-wheeler without any canopy or fancy drum brakes sells for $6K.

I concede the point, I shouldn't have included oil. But I can include spark plugs. :p CougTek understood what I meant; these days you normally find a 6-cylinder engine in a heavier car. A heavier car needs bigger, more expensive tires. A bigger engine needs a bigger, more expensive battery...

Yeah, but it weighs two tons. I'm guessing that will take some of the shine off the performance around town.

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Because it's using some sort of backdoor to issue Intel-specific commands to the SSD. Only ATA commands are standard.

Thanks Bozo, that's more what I'm after - except that Antec has several different models made by three different manufacturers. According to the return stats, their most reliable model is the 400W Basiq that's made by FSP. The 650W Earthwatts is from Delta and was (relatively) the least reliable...

Took the words right out of my mouth. Unless you're doing significant highway diving, just avoid 6-cylinder cars altogether (this is from someone who has owned two 8-cylinder and three 6-cylinder cars), because resale will suck and the pump will bite you in the wallet every time you visit. Not...

Micron rates current 25nm flash for 3,000 erase cycles. Intel rates exactly the same stuff from the same factory for 5,000 cycles. I guess Dilbert works for Intel these days. Anyway, that works out to erasing a block of 128 pages once for every 10 4kB page writes. Unless you're doing nothing...

TRIM is a standard ATA command, so it's the same for all drives. But Windows reserves hardware control for itself, so circumventing that (in Windows XP) can be a challenge. In Windows 7, the utilities are simply creating a large file and deleting it, which prompts Windows to issue a TRIM...

I don't believe TRIM is necessary unless you're writing serious amounts of data, eg. benchmarking. On most SSDs, garbage collection is designed to deal with normal loads (aggressive GC increases 'write amplification' which may impact endurance, although again, probably not an issue in most real...

Where the f*ck are the USB 3.0 ports? And still only 2 SATA 6Gb/s ports? Is Intel just arrogant or are they struggling to keep up with chipset designs?

After reading countless PSU reviews where they were deliberately overloaded, desoldered in the quest for better photos, and rated on how flat their oscilloscope traces were, I've been trying to reconcile all this apparent wisdom with actual failure rates. I think that there are different types...

IMO, there's much better information to be had in this FAQ by Makalu at Guru 3D. He also has the only reviews I can find for the Antec Earthwatts D Green series and the Antec Neo Eco series. Here's a map of PSU reviews by other people with load testers and oscilloscopes. Also from Makalu is...

I'm only a couple of days away from pulling the trigger on the first (perhaps the only :( ) of these configurations. So it seems that Intel 320 (G3) turned out to be G2.1, and what planet are Intel currently on? I still like the idea of Crucial/Micron and buying direct. Only slightly uneasy...

For the last few weeks, I've been comparing different stuff - especially modern technology like HTML 5 - in different browsers on different platforms. Some conclusions so far: * FF4 relies heavily on hardware graphics acceleration. Without it, it struggles with various kinds of graphical stuff...

That's clever wordplay. Don't worry about the the alternate universe part, we realized that quite some time ago.

For what it's worth, I've seen Thunderbird installs with 20GB of email (stored in plain text as Mercutio said), and even on low-end hardware it's still just fine. In fact, I know of a site where one user uses Outlook 2003 and tries to keep his file to around 2GB, and another with Thunderbird...

The trouble with MiniITX other than Zotac is the lack of WiFi and the lack of expansion slots to rectify this (yes, I know you could use a dongle). Also, I read somewhere that the Gigabyte solution is not as low-power as you might expect - an issue when coupled with a low-power CPU such as the...

No, no, no! The oversized heat spreaders are the go-faster bits. Now your RAM will be slow.

The original post referred to Outlook in it's standalone POP3 client guise. It completely sucks at this, which was the basis for the post and the follow-up posts. It's main purpose in life is to be the client for MS Exchange. Problems here are more likely to lie with Exchange rather than any...

Most SSDs are encrypted (Intel G25M is a notable exception), so there is absolutely not a whiff of a chance of recovery - the key would be long gone if the drive has forgotten even its brand. It would be interesting to see if you could flash it, but I seem to recall those early firmwares erased...

Microsoft may not be the only culprit but they are by far the main one. Are you trying to say that companies buy products because they are the best available? :rofl:

Are you going to request a replacement from LianLi?

Reverse that, I was right the fist time (or LianLi has changed the part):

Some of those SFX ("Small") and TFX ("thin"?) power supplies are now surprisingly good. Specifically, the 80Plus ones branded Seasonic, Silverstone or InWin Powerman. I've read a couple of reviews where they've been thoroughly tested and disassembled to check design and quality, and they've been...

The Coolermaster 341 is less than 2/3 the weight of the 0.7mm steel HEC 6K, which tends to confirm that the former is only 0.5mm steel. Looks like the HEC 6K is no longer available in Oz, although there may still be one of the lighter (0.7mm) 6T variants. Do you still find the power supplies...

Nope, I'm definitely not sure. Chalk that up to yet another pitfall. :(

Secondly, Antec 3480 seems to be disappearing from several vendor pricelists around here. It's pretty ugly, but it's the only conventional MicroATX minitower that Antec make (ignoring the low-profile one with a TFX PSU and the assorted Mini-ITX models). What does that leave that isn't a 10-year...

Firstly, which of these cases would you prefer, and why?

Pitfalls for the unwary: With current Lian-Li cases, the cable from each front USB 3.0 port ends in a USB plug. They include a Y adapter that allows two of these to be connected to a USB 3.0 header on a motherboard. So they can accommodate any motherboard with some kind of USB 3.0 port...

Update: returns made before April 2011 for products sold between April 1st 2010 and October 1st 2010. My take is that the numbers look entirely credible, and there have been enough of these surveys to draw some conclusions with extreme cases. I'd also like to ask what people consider an...

BBB: two points. Firstly, a UPS will not protect you from a direct lightning strike. Nothing you can plug into a wall socket will do that. Secondly, a UPS exists primarily to cover brownouts and blackouts; 'surge' protection is just a bonus feature and not really any different from a $20 power...

So what do you use in Winter? :) I suppose it's a question of selecting a different refrigerant appropriate for the climate? In my somewhat toastier climate, heat pumps lose efficiency below 5C and are pretty useless below 0C. They come with a simple heating element that takes over under those...

I didn't make myself clear. The software should allow you to move the existing Vista environment to a different PC (although you'll obviously need to activate it again or buy another Vista license). In no way will it support any kind of upgrade from one generation of Windows to another. I...

This may seem overbearing, but if you can afford VMWare Workstation, you can afford a dedicated router appliance. Why can't you just stick one in a cupboard where dirt etc can't get to it? The DSL router I have here uses about 8W, so it's not much of a challenge to dissipate the heat. I know...

AFAIK, both Acronis and Paragon products support this kind of migration. Paragon calls it "driver injection". It asks for drivers as it needs them. Paragon Drive Copy If you click on 'Try Now', you can download the user manual and a trial version of the software. This also raises the...

I feel your pain. For what it's worth, I thought that it was fairly obvious. I don't speak Spanish, but the context and the smiley hint inevitably led me to look closely at the place-name. Perhaps you need to create a short explanation that people can click on if they don't understand your wit.

Why don't you give the money to me instead? You would still see the same benefit while I would be wearing a big smile on my face. Win - win.

What I took away earlier from skimming Whirlpool is that you want to be sure about the HTC warranty details, particularly how you go about getting service.

I'd guess that this means those folk in Japan who aren't allowed back to their houses (ever?) were also not covered. So does this teach us that living within 30km of a reactor is not a very smart move? A bit tough when you think how many people are carrying that risk.

Z4root seems to handle these Motorolas: XT5 (Quench) Defy Droid 1, Droid 2, Droid X but NOT Droid Incredible Backflip Cliq Flipside Milestone 2 It DOESN'T work with these HTCs: Desire (requires nand unlock) Desire HD (requires nand unlock) Magic Evo G2 Wildfire

Because he's trying to replace existing phones halfway through a contract. Samba? To access a MicroSD card that's already immediately shareable by just plugging the phone into any PC with a standard cable? And thereby charging it rather than draining its battery? :( My 2.1 phone has tethering...

Why would he need to?

And also the Garmin-Asus A50 for $199. AFAIK still comes with a 2 year warranty, supplied by Optus but I very much doubt that it's locked. Slightly bigger 3.5" screen, Android 2.1 and Garmin navigation software and hardware extensions.

Tricky Dicky has the unlocked Motorola XT5 3.2" with Android 2.1 on special for $259, but you'd have to be quick (I now nothing about the phone, just saw the offer).

What about the SE X8? 3" screen @320x480, currently running Android 2.1. Available for $150-$160 (prepaid) from Optus and Vodafone - shouldn't be too hard to unlock if it is locked. Or already unlocked for $170 from some online store. The main downside I could see is that the camera is only...

Wow, you're right! I missed that. :(

Well okay, I'll admit I don't either. That's why I started using automatic cloud synchronization - but that doesn't cover the boot image.

Yes, after more searching I'm reasonably confident, but I'll be happier if I can find someone on the web who's actually done it. That is, connected one monitor to the DVI port and another to an HDMI (I don't have a Sandy Bridge box here right now). Intel HD2000/3000 supports two displays only...

A well-trained one? Seriously, I know exactly what you mean. A feature of Bounceback is that you can configure it to launch the backup automatically when the drive is plugged in. So when the user is in their hotel room and turns in for the night, all they have to do is plug in the removable...