Recent content by doug_ny

I have a compaq presario with a failing drive. I don't have recovery discs for it, and the recovery partition is intact, so I want to copy everything to another hard drive. But that hasn't worked out so far. The original drive is 500gb. As an experiment, I tried to copy the entire disk...

I believe "coolspin" can continuously vary between 5400 and 7200rpm, so .... ideal for archives, but probably inconsistent performance versus a straight 7200 drive.

Yes, they'll absolutely do everything they can to push Win8 on students. And the sick and elderly.

Hitachi is exiting the hard drive business, and the Deskstar line has had a troubled life.

How many times do they let you get this deal? Once per academic year?

What power brick? Nothing is mentioned in the description or specs... or pictures. What connector does it have? In the case of the 44-pin connector, you'd be unable to use it at all.

This sale is posted all over the place - continually. Honestly, I don't understand the point of it. Why can't they just run VNC and do exactly the same thing over ethernet? Why do you need the device?

On this RS series, is it a simple +12v boost or -12v buck, or does it correct voltage continuously *up to* +/- 12v?

You might be thinking of tray or non-retail, or the old FXs. That's the standard fan they give for all 125w processors. Anyway, I'd expect that we won't see *really* good prices until after june when BD is released.

It's a great keyboard, and illumination is a useful feature, but I was disappointed in how it looked. The light squirts out not just from the key labels, but everywhere -- between/underneath the keys, etc, and its kind of uneven.

You could still have fairly good peak output, but without seeing what capacitors it has, I donno. Considering that this is yamaha, and the limited power output, I'm betting that these are T-amps, such as the yamaha TA2020. Which are excellent btw, albeit very low power. So the Energy's are...

50 watts per channel, or shared by all channels (somehow) ? Where did you find this info, because I couldn't?

When was this monitor introduced? There's no specs on luminance, transition speed, and at 3000:1 *dynamic* CR seems a little shy of cutting edge.

I think we're assuming that that performance will plateau at some point, because some component has been 'maxed out'. In order for that to be the behavior, all components must be entirely dependent on each other, and I don't think that's actually case. Actually it's not clear at all why he's...

I wouldn't consider the CPU at all for HTPC purposes, because modern GPUs do a far better job at processing HD video than the cpu will. There are some filters / post-processing that will tax the CPU (eg., motion smoothing), but generally if you're seeing significant CPU utilization when...