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Were he not a doofus, he would have written a better article. QED.

There is nothing meritorious about this person's qualitative statements. You say he's an expert. I say that if he is an expert, he should be able to provide more instructive analysis than statements couched in his opinion. I'm not arguing that there might be something wrong with 48fps filmmaking...

The author makes a rather large number of statements that are grounded in his personal opinion or his judgment of an audience's reaction. There are an awful lot of sentences in that piece that start with "I think..." or include utterly unquantifiable observations. If the author wanted to write...

I just read all that and it sounds like some doofus is grasping at straws to justify his dislike of progress.

I normally buy the smallest drive option available, swap out the drive and set it aside in case I need to send one back. I've never had an issue getting warranty repairs from Lenovo when they were needed.

For what it's worth, both Sharing and Security permission changes take effect immediately, but authentication tokens are not refreshed until either a shutdown or logout/login has occurred. I just spent 45 today tearing my hair out because a remote user didn't understand the difference between...

I'd say that the Evo is adequate for everything. If you think an Evo is slow, try working with a BN Nook (800MHz) or one of those $80 generic tablets with half the RAM.

Architecturally, Windows likes to have a pagefile, whether it's needed or not. My SOP for solid state drives is to provision one on a secondary magnetic disk and disable the one on the SSD. I avoid wear on the SSD that way but still have the pagefile if I need it.

It's difficult to justify and frankly other than games it's doubtful that there's any need. The expectation in the market is that tier-1 OEM devices may have anything from a single core 1GHz ARM to a 1.7GHz quad core, but any normal app needs to work just fine with the low end of that range...

Whereas good RMA service is of course the only reason to buy a WD drive, being that concrete bricks serve better as both magnetic data storage and a building material. I will say that I haven't had a problem with a refurb drive in any recent time frame. I usually relegate them to use as backup...

That is counter to my experience with the Momentus XL, which I found to only offer improvement in terms of boot and resume time and almost no benefit for actual help for other disk-based latency.

I'm a big enough fan of the Lord of the Rings movies that I listen to all 12 hours of the score at least once a week, usually in a single sitting. Of course I'll go more than once. Especially when I have girls to take.

So far I've seen The Hobbit in 3D, IMAX 3D and un-enhanced 24fps. As usual, I'll say that the penalty of color fidelity is too high to justify the 3D experience, even if it is occasionally pretty neat. I'd like to see a 48fps showing but I don't feel like going in to Chicago for it. I was on the...

My go-to speaker set at this point is the butt ugly but marvelous-sounding Genius SW-G2.1 set. They're inexpensive but sound better than other sets that cost three times as much. Unfortunately, they ARE butt ugly.

That is... interesting. As far as I know, there's no support in Outlook for CalDev/CardDev. I'm guessing there's a commercial addon someplace, but for as much as I hate it plenty of business systems live and die with Outlook integration. This blows.

4x3 screens do still exist. It's not like they've been plucked from the surface of the Earth.

For what it's worth, Samsung 210Ts (21") can be had for $99 from ebay or places that sell refurbished kit. Those guys are a huge upgrade over typical $150 22" displays.

I did a little bit of reading about it and I guess they effectively leave an open IMAP connection between compliant clients and the various GMail services for data transfer. That's how their server-side push works, anyway.

That chassis you linked is a super POS. I've used them before and it's really easy to break the tabs on the front cover. You could do well with something like this though.

Two of them are shared with eSATA... which I'm also using.

The big problem with OSS systems for push email is that they tend to be missing something or other. You're either going to pay money because someone actually licensed ActiveSync (e.g. Zafara) or there's a push implementation that doesn't support something-or-other or has insane package...

I'm given to understand that USB notebook docks all tend to suck, and multi-bay USB enclosures are ridiculously expensive for some reason. The Elite 120 actually has a gasket for running internal-to-external cables, so you could probably get away with rigging up some unholy combination of USB...

As of last Friday, it is no longer possible to register for Google Apps for Domains as a free service. Existing domains are not impacted, but any new domain will be billed at $65 per user account per year.

Some people don't like the intense concentration of information that Google has about us. Of course, Google isn't the worthless dangling shitberry that Facebook is, but there isn't anything it does that can't be done reasonably well with some other combination of online services. I will say...

On my way to visit my folks in Knoxville, I stopped at a Gas Station and Jerky Store someplace in Kentucky. I thought they might've been kidding but I had to see it. The Jerky Store was real, probably 400 square feet of floor to ceiling jerky varieties, including stuff like Chipotle Alligator...

With the Cooler Master case I'm referencing, I wouldn't want an i7 or a graphics card much over $150. I wish I could've found an ITX board with 6 SATA ports though. I actually could use all of them in that case, including the 4-in-1 bay.

So I put together a system in the Cooler Master Elite 120. It's a sweet little rig, an i5-3570 sitting on an Asus P8Z77 Deluxe, 16GB and a Radeon 7770. I put in a 4-in-1 2.5" to 5.25" bay, which is where the boot drive (a spare X25) lives. The thermals on that system aren't so great. The fan...

Lunar: Still pissed that he can't buy a 4TB SSD yet.

That is more devoutly to be wished for than a concrete outcome at this point, LM. But anyway, these are girls I've gotten to know. I have a bunch of time off and a wide-open schedule, so every time I've said "Hey, we should go do XYZ", they've said yes.

I have a date planned every night for the next 10 days. With a girl. Different girls, in fact. Like, more than one. Apparent this is what happens when you lose 160lbs. and start wearing sport coats regularly.

Rare earth magnet?

It's a BIOS setting.

TigerDirect has an OCZ Vertex 3 480GB drive for $280 after rebate right now. I'm not going to link because I don't think OCZ Drives should be purchased, but historically OCZ has been a leader in terms of its pricing. I would not be at all surprised if we start seeing $.50/GB ~500GB SSDs by the...

I've seen that one. But yeah, I have a drive that works fine if I leave it in IDE mode, but disconnects from the host if addressed using AHCI. Verified on Intel and AMD native controllers and on a JMicron controller. IIRC all the special SSD-only features of the drive are only accessible in...

Since this is the thread for talking about crapped-out Corsair drives: I have a 240GB Force GT that shits itself every time it's connected to a SATA controller in AHCI mode. No problems if the controller is doing IDE emulation, but I'm pretty sure that's not working as intended. It took me all...

As I recall, Server 2008 was also faster than FreeNAS, but it lacks Storage Spaces support for flexible disk provisioning.

I actually saw the biggest gains during transfers of small files. 3.7 million .jpg files (~1TB) took around 14 hours to copy to the Server 2012 machine and only about 12.5 hours to copy from that machine to another desktop.

I figured out that it's not worthwhile to sell anything on Ebay five or six years ago. They've done increasingly less to help vendors over time and now they appear to be actively hostile. This does not surprise me. Unfortunately, Craigslist is just as bad or worse.

Whoops. Both my DOS programs are published via Virtual PC.

Data transfer performance on Server 2012 seems to be significantly better than FreeNAS, even comparing their NFS implementations head to head. ZFS still has a lot to offer because of configurabilty, but in some of the tests I did, I saw 15MB/s better transfers out of my Windows Server.

Your DOS program will probably run just fine. The gotchas you'll run in to with legacy software have more to do with use of 16-bit drivers or libraries for Windows, or legacy code that checks for some god-awful reason checks OS version in some way that bombs on newer Windows releases.

I've shipped drives to people I don't like in just that little box. Every once in a while I get one from Amazon that way, too.

One of these?

Pin stuff to the taskbar. Folders full of shortcuts, if it's that bad. You can still put shortcuts on the desktop as well.

I promise that it's fine. It just means that the driver isn't part of the Windows 8 installation media.

I'm kind of partial to the Norco 4224. It's nice to get a case and say "This has enough drive bays." Though I'm quite fond of the NZXT Source 220 as a mainstream desktop case as well.

Your friend is not wrong, though I suspect most home users would never know the difference.

802.11n does not automatically ensure 5GHz support. It's still defined as optional. Make sure whatever you're looking at is specifically dual band or you might still have issues.

The overall impression I have is that among the top-tier vendors, pretty much every SSD is fast enough for pretty much every normal sort of workload. Or at least that I can't really tell a subjective difference between say an Intel 330, a Samsung 820 and an OCZ Agility 3.

Why is the Air the only notebook you see fit to mention?