Posted 09/17/2009 at 01:40:24pm

My Core2Duo E6750 with 4GB and an Intel 80GB 'mainstream' SSD is already pretty quick. $1000 goes to P55 based 4 monitor setup.

Posted 07/10/2009 at 08:06:13am

now

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Order=BESTMATCH&Description=torqx&x=0&y=0

Posted 06/16/2009 at 10:02:18am

Call me old school, but until I can get FLAC files, or 320K MP3's, I'll buy CD's and make my own.

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Posted 06/04/2009 at 11:35:17am

... the a) I want one and b) who cares about competing developers / apps / systems and c) it's a closed device.

Let's hear everyone bitch about iPhone apps ...

Oh, and Intel just bought Wind River. Let's see, cpu's, graphics, mobo's, SSD's, an OS. Nope, nothing to see here. Just move along.

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Posted 05/14/2009 at 02:11:26pm

Well, if it really does HDMI right, and it doesn't cost an arm + leg, and it runs Win 7, it's a cute SlingBox ... or, the worlds biggest (wired) remote control!

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Posted 04/08/2009 at 06:29:56pm

I buy the CD, sometimes new but usually used, rip it to FLAC, convert that to the highest bitrate MP3 Lame can do, lose the case, store the paper and disc, and have all my stuff on disk.

Why download this crap? For those "few songs"? Remember radio?

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Posted 03/30/2009 at 10:25:36pm

A few things are true: 

- Only a handful on companies on Earth will actually make the flash parts for these drives. They already exist, and pending some technical revolution, they're IT. No More. Farking period.

- The architecture and design of the controller is 'the Intellectual Property' here. That's what Intel's got, and what WD is hoping they bought. If they did, $65M is chump change.

 - The SSD business will turn into a high volume / low margin business as soon as it can. Aparently, 'the Intellectual Property' problem is hard. Hard == high rents == $$$$$

- If storage size matters, SSD's are years away. If speed / heat / noise / computer responsiveness matter, HDD's are so screwed. I've got multi TB on the server, a TB Black drive, and want this machine to feel like a good ... car: fast, responsive, and attentive. SSD's can do that. All the RAID in the world cannot.

Go read this. http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3531

Get a clue about Business ("It's ONLY about money"). 

Go find a technology / cost curve for Flash.

Come on people. I'm depressed enough.

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Posted 03/30/2009 at 12:47:18pm

Anandtech has a great ... overview ... of SSD's and their current state. It's a great read. The best line is "Once you try one, you'll never want to go back" (to a rotating HDD).

I agree, and I bought and paid for a 'poor' one (64GB FM-25S2S-64GB) for $100 or so, put Windows 7 on it, in my Presario V6000 laptop. It's a very different machine. Where before it was not too responsive, now it is. Warm, now not. Some noise, now less. Makes me wonder if a CPU upgrade for my desktop Core 2 Duo when 7 goes RTM is worthwhile. I'd love to get the Raptor out of my case, and kill more noise and heat.

I'm patiently awaiting 7, and then I'll buy the best one there is. Don't need space, just speed, no heat, and no noise.

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Posted 03/16/2009 at 07:15:17pm

When SSD's have decent controllers - almost, not quite - they'll just destroy HDD's for performance.

You nice people spend kilobucks on PAINT JOBS for Dream PC's, and you gripe about cost per gig?

Fer crissakes. 2014? Get real. Your readers will have 64GB SSD boot drives as soon as the controllers don't suck. That'll be, what, September?

WTF with you guys ...

Have a nice day,

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Posted 02/06/2009 at 11:31:09am

Are there any content employees in the US now?

Heck, my stuff at home has been better/faster/newer than my stuff at work for nearly 30 years now, except for brief bursts of new hardware off my cycle.

Bad reasoning. Poor PR. Hard to believe I could miss Bill G. talking ...

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