From a value perspective the HD version of the notebook costs $50 more than the SSD version, yet the SSD alone is over $100 more than a 500GB HD. From that standpoint the SSD version has an added value of $150 so is it a no brainer to buy the SSD version?
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They are identical except one comes with the Intel 80GB SSD for 799 and the other comes with a 500MB HD for 749.
It just doesn't seem logical since the most expensive 500GB...
If all you want is 100GB, RAID 5 seams to be overkill. You would need minimum 3 drives so you could buy 3 x 80GB drives for about $40 each or get 2 x 160GB drives for $50 each and do a RAID 1. The RAID 1 solution is cheaper and gives better performance.
Is there any electrical differences between the different class SDHC cards? My Lian-Li card reader can read my new Class 4 16GB Micro SD card without problems, but does not even see my Transcend 16GB Class 6 card.
The Transcend works fine in my camera and on the included USB reader. I'm a...
I remember I had a Compaq 12MHz 80286 with a 40MB HD when most AT's were still running 6 or 8MHz and the majority was still buying XTs with dual floppys. Those were the days.
If you are not running the latest Nvidia drivers, you need to upgrade. I have a 8800GTS 512 and I was running 177.41 and getting approximately 3000 PPD. I recently upgraded to the latest WHQL V177.83 and now I am getting 5760 PPD.
As for mainstream processors being in the $500+ region, it is conservative, I recall the days of the 386 and 486, frankly I remember paying $700 for a 750MHz Pentium 3 and well as $1000+ for an Atari 800. I'm exaggerating now, because the public simply won't except a high price for a mainstream...
My Spysweeper subscription is about to expire. Before I renew, is it still the best available? Are there good free alternatives available such as Avast for antivirus and Comodo for firewall in the antispyware arena?
I don't have any particular loyalty to any company but if Intel moves too far ahead of AMD, I'm afraid that there won't be any affordable Corei7 as there won't be any competitive pressure. I haven't even read of any rumors from AMD. I don't want to go back to the days of mainstream processors...
Since you already have an Intel based motherboard in the Asus P5E, I'd be more partial to the AMD 4800 series cards. Get a 4870 now and if you think you need more performance later, get a second one later and CF them.
Considering we had Windows 98 10 years ago and now we have Vista, I'd expect any changes will be evolutionary and not revolutionary over the next 10 years. To the non-gamer, advances in GPU and multi-core CPU is not really significant. Any mainstream computer today can surf and word process...
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