Recent content by oddlycalm

A large display is not a component I'd roll the dice on. There can be a lot of issues beyond just stuck or dead pixels. The lowest CCFL tube on my 2707 dimmed dramatically after just 2yrs in service. No replacement tubes available anywhere let alone from Dell. Without a replacement monitor (an...

Agreed, latency is a killer, and that's why my first SSD was an X-25M, but a lot has happened since I bought that first one and Linus wrote that last spring. The SSD's with JMicron controllers he refers to that had the high latency/stutter issues are all but gone from the market and the SSD's...

The X-25 G2 remains the best drive in real world use though the margins are getting closer. The only aspect of performance where it doesn't lead the pack is sequential writes which has a lot less impact on the "feel" of the computer that random reads does. As you say, you want to boot quickly...

You want the SSD for your boot drive. It will be the biggest single upgrade you've ever made. I have an Intel SX-25 M as my boot drive and a WD Black 1TB as a data drive. I also have an old 74GB Raptor like yours that used to be a boot drive years ago that I use occasionally in an eSATA docking...

Storage Review has the largest reliability database I know about from actual users. You gotta register. Storage Review survey I've owned a half dozen of the Raptors starting with the 36GB and haven't lost a single one. FWIW the difference between buying OEM drives that are repackaged for...

Avoid the 2709 unless you want a 107 watt space heater that needs periodic CCFL tube replacement. I've had a 2708 for around 3yrs and while it's a decent monitor the heat dissipation and light tube failures have made it a lot less enjoyable. I would not buy another monitor that didn't have...

Balmer may want to focus on his own company. MS has a business model that is in dire need of an update. iPod vs Zune...? iPhone/iTouch vs Win CE...? OSX vs Vista...? He's also comparing specs not the finished products. Nobody that buys a Macbook is going to seriously look at as some generic...

From where I sit the new Mac Pro makes a compelling argument against building or buying another PC. As other have pointed out, nobody with a working brain orders memory and drives with the system anyway. Those bitching about price aren't looking at other quad core Xeon systems I think. My only...

Nonsense, Philips participation was to bring the core science to the partnership and the only means they have to profit from that investment is to sell their stake in the business. The alternative would be to wait for the profits to trickle in over time, subject to the variables of the market...

Exactly right, and that is the most optimistic timeline. In reality we're probably more like 30 months out on the very first monitors and 3.5-4 yrs until 2nd gen units appear, the bugs get worked out and prices settle. It's gonna be a long wait for the SED holdouts. oc

There were threads saying that OLED and SED were just around the corner 18 months ago when I got my HP 23" along with many others. There is little doubt that some vastly superior technology will eventually arrive to displace LCD, but there's no evidence it is imminent. In the mean time there are...

Word. Stuff is stuff. This guy made sure he ordered all the "best" stuff at the same time, right down to the Canon L series glass, which says trust fund, legal settlement or insurance payout rather than professional tools. People's tools are invariably of different age, this stuff was all bought...

The response time is 8ms, so it's fast enough, but it's a waste of money for games. Get a 2405 and knock yourself out. Unless you plan on calibrating your monitor and have a requirement for absolute color accuracy, why spend nearly $1000 more? Bragging rights is about all you'll get for your...

Agreed, the monitor is farqed. Return for replacement or refund is the only choice. I hadn't heard about NEC ceasing production of CRT monitors recently. If they did, they must have made a boatload of them at the end, because they are still in stock everwhere. The folks at Monitors Outlet and...

The Asus P5WD2 Premium Intel 955X showed up on a couple e-tailers sites this morning. Retail price is $265. One site says the boards should be shipping by May 9th. Tom's Hardware reviewed the D840 and the bottom line is that for applicaitons that are not thread optimized (games) the higher...