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Do we have to go over this every time there is mention of the eee, OLPC, or Classmate PC? Ultraportables used to be insanely expensive. Now, they are not. This is a completely different market catagory than normal laptops. The person who buys a crappy 15.4" 8 pound Acer for $500 from...

Nifty.

Wow, I wish I had the guts (or at least the money) to route my CPU.

Or if you prefer, according to NIST in 2006, "Advancing technology has created a situation that has altered previously held best practices regarding magnetic disk type storage media. Basically the change in track density and the related changes in the storage medium have created a situation...

Umm, no. Data on a modern hard drive overwritten by truely random data once is unrecoverable by any known means. http://www.nber.org/sys-admin/overwritten-data-guttman.html

Well, I hope a bunch of outraged Fundamentalists buy MS stock. A good portion of my 401k is invested in it ;) (and I'm a GNU/Linux user)

Apparently you've never heard of rounding... The stats from ComScore were rounded to the nearest integer percent in each category to make it easier to read. That said, you are right about the figures not being fully believable, because they are an unofficial guesstimate coming from ComScore...

Yea... it even mentions in the text you quoted that VT finished in time. The text isn't fully correct either, since Ben Franklin Racing managed to finish within the 6 hour time limit too.

So their original price goal was unrealistic; that doesn't make the project any less worthwhile. It's still a great cause, and they are still doing great things. The first run costs $188, and prices can only drop from there as production scales up and the parts get cheaper.

No, if you produced several million alienware laptops, the CEO of Dell gets a bigger yacht. The public can buy one (of two) for $400, which is neither $100 nor $200. You keep using the word "promise." I'm not sure why you don't understand the difference between "promise" and "goal."

To the public? It's not a consumer product. In fact, those who are getting the educations are not the ones paying for them. Besides, the price is the actual manufacturing cost plus shipping. Meaning, as production ramps up, manufacturing costs drop, and prices drop by the same amount. If...

It wasn't promised to be $100. $100 was simply the envisioned engineering (and unfortunately marketing) goal. As they designed it, they found that getting it under $100 would have required far too many compromises. It's not as if they designed a $100 laptop, are charging $200 for it and...

Ah, sweet ignorance. When Asus goes non profit, releases a laptop with mesh networking, a daylight readable screen, 12+ hours of battery life, and that can survive being dropped and rained on, develops an operating system easy enough for someone who has never seen a computer to master, and...

Windows XP with Service Pack 2 has SATA drivers built in. If Windows installed, it means that it recognized the hard drive, and that you were using an SP2 install cd. The settings are all correct, there's nothing you need to change on the average install. If you want to switch to RAID...

I would appreciate an invite to Oink. I have a 4:1 ratio on Demonoid and a 1:1 ratio on btmusic, and could provide invites to either/both in return. Thanks. [email protected]

If you need something cheaper, I'm still a fan of Fortron's server line as far as price/performance ratio goes.

I ended up going for the mini multi-tool, which came to around $23 ($-2 after GC) shipped.

Thanks, OP. Got one. They're going fast.

Ordered two jackets for $30 including shipping. Hopefully they aren't out of stock by now. Thanks OP.

Agreed, it's redonkulous. More companies need to take a lesson from Staples and now CompUSA too.

Got mine today. It's actually a decent case for the price, and the UV reactive window isn't hideous looking. Some of the manufacturing is subpar (screw holes not lining up right, etc), but it works well enough for what I'm using it for.

Staples: $9 AR | Sandisk 512mb SD $0 AR | Staples surge protector (can never have too many) $30 AR | Maxtor 200gb HD $3 AR | 50 pack 8x DVD+Rs CompUSA: $20 AR | Hitachi 160gb SATA HD $30 AR | Seagate 200gb HD (5 year warrenty!) By the way, did anyone get the FAR XM radio kit at...

The coupon worked for me. My friend found it while we were waiting in line. The cashier was probably too busy to care whether it was valid or not. I used the $6 off a 512mb SD card.

Its depressing that a small dog could poop on my property and cover the entire thing...

This shows up again every few months. As far as I know, the company has never actually sent out a sample to anyone..

It's worth in my opinion. Last year I got a 40 pack of DVD-Rs for free, 100 CD-Rs for -$1.50, a 160gb hard drive for $30, and a 16x dl DVD+-RW drive for $40. All of the rebates came in within 8 weeks. I'm hoping for a nice deal on a sound card this time around. The secret is to live in an...

Interestingly enough, when I got in on this deal the last time it was active, SVC accidently shipped me an XP-120 instead. $50+ HS for $25. :)

Mine are pretty hot to the touch at 3.0v, so I'm afraid to push them higher without active cooling. Anyway, 3.0v is what it takes me to hit 250mhz, which is exactly where I want to be to get my X2 to 2.5ghz.

Just a little update. I'm at 248mhz 3-3-3-8 1t 3.0v. With a bit of tweaking, I'm expecting to hit 250mhz at 3v. These chips love voltage, but don't feel safe leaving them above 3v.

I'm playing around with a stick of this stuff right now. I was disappointed to see that I got the 16FD instead of the 16T, but as of yet, it seems to be working well. It's memtest stable at 2.5-3-2-6 200mhz 2.6v.

Walmart is rediculous with thier carding. I've gotten carded for spray paint and super glue there.

Damn, and to think I paid twice that just last week. Should have waited.

The point isn't that it's more likely to fail, because it's not. The point is that if it fails, you lose everything instead of just some stuff. I personally backup important documents and logs between the hard drives on my computer, so if one fails, I only lose worthless stuff like my Windows...

The Home Depot around here has acrylic, lexan, and some other stuff. The prices aren't great, but it's convenient if you have one nearby.

Check Walmart. They have the 5 pack for around $5 at the one around here.

Since it's a 1" hard drive, is it in a CF form factor? Can the HD be pulled out and used in anything with a CFII slot? If so, this is an amazing deal. I don't think Seagate would do it that way though, as they dont retail any CF HDs.

Damn. Why did you have to bring this thread back. I nearly shit my pants when I saw the title... then I read the first post and saw December... That was a heartbreaker.

Here's another one. I regret passing up the Dell X50v for $350 with free shipping. Those things cost an arm and a leg now...

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