Recent content by blakflag

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    Help me recommend a phone for my SO

    Opinions on the best Android phone <$300, hopefully closer to $200. I'm pretty out of the loop on what's current. She values screen size, capacity, and camera. Main activities are browsing and pictures. thanks!
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    The AnandTech Introduction Thread: Get To Know Your Peers

    I could use one of these!
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    Samsung 840/850 PRO +more Fatal Trim Firmware bugs?

    Ah thanks, that explains it.
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    Samsung 840/850 PRO +more Fatal Trim Firmware bugs?

    Speaking of Samsung firmware bugs, wasn't there a big announcement a while ago that they were rolling out a second fix for that same issue because it resurfaced? I never received a firmware update notice.
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    15" programmer laptop?

    I'm thinking of a new laptop, right now I am on a 13" Macbook Pro (mid 2010), but I never took to OS X so I am currently only running Windows 8. Several thins have me wanting a new laptop: - screen a bit too small for programming - feeling slow - getting Windows, Linux and OS X triple...
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    Nvidia NVRAID - "teh suck"?

    I know.. it is scary and I probly never should have depended on it to begin with.. but we have no IT budget to speak of. I'm thinking about the Highpoint Rocketraid 1820a which got good reviews. I guess the moral is to not trust the "market speak" that companies throw at you.
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    Nvidia NVRAID - "teh suck"?

    Hi, where I work we had a simple raid array, we used a Nvidia Nforce3 250 mobo, with driver package 5.10 to do raid 1 on two drives. Worked fine for a long while, with no reboots for a few weeks. Then we rebooted and *no boot* because the raid array was degraded. So we hooked up one of the...
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    weird video issue

    Ive had my system for about 9 months. I have a weird video issue that has happened since day 1. I have just been too lazy to try to solve it. Monitor is Dell 2001:confused:FP. Video card is an XFX AGP Geforce 6800GT. Connected via digital cable. Problem is that whenever I come back from...
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    oops wrong forum