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Depends on the product, particularly their margins, but that is right for some of our stuff.

Grado headphones. I've heard that they are good, so I decided to pick up a pair with my last order from B&H. The only one they carry is the iGrado, their low-end, but it has the same driver as the next one up. Conclusion? These are the best headphones I've ever heard, but they have the...

The extra memory isn't necessary at all, just gives a few percentage points improvement in certain circumstances. The battery allows you to cache writes and reads safely. If your data isn't exceptionally valuable, or you can deal with the performance penalty of not caching your writes, you don't...

Massively seconded. This would double the efficiency of mobi for me.

Really? Forget that, that blows my budget. ;)

Awesome.

Phew, what a relief. I really wanted one of these lenses, but couldn't afford it. Glad to know they are on the used market, and so affordable!

I used to have a truckload of Sony 24" CRTs...might still have a few of them in storage. Way too blurry, not worth it.

Phase 2 needs to be put to use immediately. It is the results of phase 1 grouped by person. It allows the workers to organize the prizes by person, speeding checkout and providing totals.

It can print, but the formatting of the page is fixed. It looks...very bad.

The software being used (out of my control) only supports normal printers, and prints out of Windows. One of the options I have is to have multiple smaller printers or fewer larger ones. Bringing in a beast is very tempting, but the single point of failure freaks me out. Printer pooling...

Thanks again. There will actually be three distinct phases. 1. Silent auction/check-in At this point papers are already out for each item, so we are just keying people into the system as they come in. 2. Item entry, redistribution. All the papers are brought in, with the winners entered...

It seems like you (and they) are pushing the tech so hard that the expectations (and price) are leaving reality. If you need the best, than I don't doubt that that is it. But I'm certain you can get within 1% of that for 50% the money.

I think that for $2200, it better be very, very good.

:p Yup. Though she refuses to claim ownership of something so expensive. The longer I wait, the larger my car budget gets. At some point, the amount I can spend will intersect with a car that I want. Seems to currently sit in the ~$30k range. That'll be another 6 months. Of course, by then, the...

Me? Never had a WRX. Used to have a bunch of fast stuff, but lately I've had a 2009 Audi A3 2.0T Quattro.

Got smoked by an SLS on the way to Santa Barbara for the weekend. Following for a while at about 90, then I went to overtake...he didn't like that very much. Never saw him again.

No idea. I hate compromising. Most of the time I'd rather hold off getting anything at all than not get exactly what I want.

Thanks for the bits so far. Now that I've met with them, I have a more complete write-up. This will be for a dinner auction. All night I'll be printing one and two page receipts, and at two different times I'll be running 300+ page reports. I'll need to carry the hardware in and out by hand, so...

You know what my main rig is, so you know what my standards are. I'm telling you, it isn't the CPU, it's the crappy drive and lack of RAM that kill the performance. I have a batch of three MSI U100s coming in, I'll try to put together a side-by-side comparison.

I really have no idea what you are talking about here. Firefox+Adblock+XP is just as usable on my U123 as on my desktop. Going full screen is all it takes to make any site I go to useable, including the casul collective (complex flash-based games) and youtube/ted.

If you had to buy a printer where the main criteria was the time from the job being sent to the first page or two being ready, what would you pick?

SATA controllers come free with every motherboard. You shouldn't have to pay for either. SAS controllers are even more expensive than SATA controllers.

Nope. Big hands, big-ish fingers. The keyboard does really well, even if you slightly depress the buttons around the one you want. Even if you aren't writing an e-mail, listening to voicemail and being able to next/delete without taking the phone from your ear is useful.

I'm not saying that you're wrong, just observing that you are a bit more towards the tinfoil side of the equation than average, and that Greg likely doesn't have state secrets on his drives...

You guys are thinking too logically, you clearly aren't my users ;)

I prefer hard keyboards because I can type stuff without looking (eg meetings).

Of course! Because, sometimes, you want a crappy camera. ;)

One of my MSI U123s has developed a flaky/failing video issue. My guess would be an overheating northbridge. I went to support and they told me to go here. This looks like it could be problematic.

I was running in the high-60s by going 100% cheese before I quit. The fact that it is so challenging is really the funny part.

Nope. He wanted to add some text onto that page (it wasn't even a full page of text). Under the footer.

Entry #1: "How do I put more text after the footer?"

I haven't had any installs of .NET go wrong yet?

It could be on-board, but not integrated?

ugh. How expensive can it be to simply add 20 more PCIe lanes on a northbridge? This seems to be a problem all over the place.

You may need to go into the BIOS and change the integrated GPU setting. Make sure it is set to "onboard" even if a card is detected. Sometimes it will disable the onboard if a card is detected.

Under the "desktops & displays" menu in the Catalyst Control Center, click the down arrow next to the display in question at the bottom of the screen and choose "configure". The far-right tab is called "Pixel Format". Make sure is is in the correct mode for your display. This plus ClearType can...

You guys clearly don't appreciate the longer battery life. An Atom CPU is just fine for 90% of what I do. The rest should have an i7...

Lost, good to see you back. I hope whatever kept you away wasn't too bad.

Slightly more. Everyone has it, the numbers are fairly consistent, and do seem to be meaningful in the 1.0-4.0 range (appreciable difference).

In MS' special "performance" units. ;)

It is, and I'm wondering what it takes.

And how does this machine rate according to 7? 7.6 - Proc 7.8 - RAM 7.8 - Graphics 7.8 - Gaming 7.9 - HDD WTF?

That is great. The first useful thing from twitter.

Don't worry about the virtualization, it is future-proofing, and if you already have the CPU, you don't need to sweat it. Make sure the SATA ports are set to AHCI or RAID mode, then it should support hot-swapping. In IDE mode you can't.

I don't like them. The batteries run out quite often on the mice, though the keyboards are fine on that front. The main issue I have is lag. If you haven't typed anything in a minute or so, it goes to sleep, and the next key you press takes a LONG time to take effect. Bluetooth devices in...

Just reworked the office system with some bits I had sitting around. Installing the OS now.

It takes more work to put them elsewhere. That is why I only use one large drive on my workstations, but it comes at quite a cost.

Gigabyte ATI Radeon 4670

I actually prefer it this way, it allows both OSes to act completely independently. No change or consideration is required when taking one of them out.