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I found another thing that clobbers my 3.6Ghz Quad core. The terrain mod TileProxy for Flight Simulator X. It basically replaces the terrain textures in the game with high resolution ones streamed and converted in real-time from one of the online mapping sites (Microsoft, Yahoo, etc). It will...

I've found that the onboard stuff is quite good these days. The only reason I install an additional card is if the mobo doesn't support SPDIF/some other feature.

I really like my Aspire One. I got the cheapest one (8GB SSD - actually slower than a 4200RPM drive!, 512MB onboard). I've already upgraded it to 1.5GB of RAM and I'm looking into either upgrading the SSD with something faster or installing the OS onto an SD card in one of the two slots...

Oh, believe me, it won't be anytime soon. With things as they are, all major purchases (except our honeymoon to Kauai) are on hold.

I completely agree with all you have just said, uda. The image will look different on different screens/prints with different software, and if taken by different cameras, and all of them only resemble what was actually there in real life. I would LOVE to have a camera/software/monitor/printer...

I'm running with the 450D for now, and if I get anything it will be a 5DII.

That is nice. Did you do that from the super-processed one on Flickr, or with the 32bpp original?

WRT the 32bpp workflow, even if I wasn't planning to go nuts with it, I still like the flexability in my full-res/uncropped/unprocessed original. Getting all the information together first keeps the options open.

e_dawg, I appreciate your opinion, and I like the images you linked to, but I've noticed that I like images with a lot of contrast, and that I dislike blown highlights or clipped shadows. Even though trying to cram massive amounts of dynamic range into an 8-bit image makes it look less like a...

I like the light/dark down the ridgeline, and that the valley floor/bay stands out more. I think the clouds seem a bit too close/dark, and you lost some of the detail in the sunbeams as they left the cloud. Very nice, thanks for sharing.

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I suspect that SSDs will go directly from a serious premium to a "free" upgrade. Dell tends to do that when they can get away with it.

FF3 is Mozilla Firefox 3. And it isn't the apps fault; it just causes many small reads, which demonstrates the potential issue with the drive.

It also slows the boot process significantly, and shows up at other times as well. But it seems that the best, repeatable, measurable way is opening FF3 with multiple tabs.

Damn, that is awesome. Thanks for that.

My $250 vomitbook already has an SSD in it (slowest ever, but whatever). Do you really think that they are holding that kind of inventory?

Yup. I wasn't even playing anything. Apparently the TSR that it required conflicted with SyncToy in some inconceivable way.

Thanks for sharing, Merc. I've always believed (not that you asked) that the fundamental point of life is to pass the time between birth and death having as much fun as possible. While I can't blame you for wanting a relationship, based on the other things that you don't like, I can't imagine...

Heh. For a while I had a Creative USB sound card jacked into the backup server, so I could listen to tunes while working on the racks. Until the crappy creative drivers managed to crash the system.

Oh, if anyone is interested in the original 34MP/32-bit image, let me know how to get it to you (72MB zipped). I would be interested to see other people's interpretation.

Well, here it is without the HDR/tone mapping. I think it needs something. I always have a hard time letting parts go completely black.

Perhaps I'm too easy to please, but I like this one I recently took quite a bit.

From my reading, it seems that SSDs either "stutter" or they don't. And that the best way to induce stuttering is to open FF3 with a bunch of tabs as your homepage. I'll try to replicate that, as well as some IOMeter and HDTach scores. Perhaps some Photoshop stress tests as well.

Ugh. It also seems that CS4 cannot photomerge 32-bit images. That sucks.

Or really one big question with a bunch of small ones tied-in. HDR Pano stitching. I know how to manually do an HDR composite of images using "Merge to HDR" and I know how to do stitching using "Photomerge". I'm trying to find a way to automate some phases of this process. Photomatix has the...

What is in their way? What is the average size of drive in a laptop? 160GB? 200? How fast is it? 60MB/s? Less? Cost? SSDs should cost less at the volume required. The most reasonable cause is lack of production capacity, but I can't really speak to that.

Fearless Leader.;)

Sweet. I expect to see SSDs as 90%+ of the laptop market by end of next year. They won't all be speed demons (I expect to see a lot of slow, mid-sized SSDs), but they will be there. The advantages and availability are already there.

X10 is legitimate, though cheap, and their website looks awful. I'm considering getting some of their stuff for the house. I would love to get something slightly higher-end (twice as much?), but the only alternatives are 10-100x as much! I was screwing around with a $6k remote control last week...

I'm not sure about that. Of course, this is just my personal opinion, but for presentation purposes, I don't like the pixels visible on either. For editing, yes, but not for viewing.

I ordered both: OCZ Core Series V2 OCZSSD2-2C250G 2.5" 250GB SATA II & Mini USB 2.0 Port Internal Solid state disk (SSD) - Retail Intel® X25-E Extreme High Performance Solid State Drive - 32GB, SLC flash technology, 2.5” form factor, SATA (3.0Gb/s) - Retail Those two, plus my...

Same price, just three times the capacity and a little slower. I'll see if I can sneak it in my next PO.

i7 does seem to be quicker, and my 3.6Ghz quad core does run circles around my previous chips Mhz-wise as well as any other way. CS4 can also easily hit 80% sustained across all the cores doing batch operations.

Grr. Seems a mixed bag. A bunch of people with limited experience passing 2nd hand anecdotal BS to each other. I may have to buy one and find out for myself. Building a 1TB array of Intel 80GB SSDs would be too pricey, and I would need a lot of spindles to get the same performance.

SF has been timing out about 20% of the time for me (happy birthday ;))

Does anyone know if these have the performance issues that I and others have experienced with the non-Intel SSDs? I'm thinking of using 4 of them in a high-performance fileserver (hundreds of users grabbing small files). I also like the inclusion of the mini-usb right on the drive, neat idea.

Indeed sir, enjoy it while it lasts! (whatever "it" happens to be)

Nope. mid-2010.

I'm actually waiting for this one. Though it says it uses a creative chipset...

Hardly ;)

Groping at public venues and other naughtiness maintains excitement in a relationship, and that is important to keeping a relationship healthy/successful. The occasional reach at a cafe, restaurant bathroom, or backseat on a long drive is important! ;)

That was my thought. I have never been this uninterested in a new chip.

The screaming monkey in your luggage is not amusing airport security, your plug is too short (not reading into this one ;)), and you need a doctor?

My goal is to not be able to see the pixels. My 1024x768 projector throws a 70" image, and with my vision and our normal viewing distance, they are barely visible. Therefore having just a little more resolution, or a slightly smaller image would be ideal. If the pixels on a 720P screen at your...

I'm still thinking that the bottom will be about Dow 7400 in mid-2010. Of course, the climb out will be painfully slow (5%?), and then we'll do another bubble.

Neither do I, I'm hungry enough for conversation to welcome it from anywhere. Though I must admit, I don't read completely through all the posts.

Borderline, but OK. Mainly, look at the size of the pixels, and figure out if you can see something that small from your average viewing distance.

Go to settings and options, and there is a line "edit ignore list"

Very interested, thank you. My system has an eSATA plug on the back, and I use it to work on bare drives pulled from other systems (data recovery, cloning, virus removal, etc). Having to reboot my main workstation always annoys me.

Not really. HD was broken much sooner, and permanently. It may have claimed to have DRM, but it didn't stop me, and that is why I chose it. Now that BR has been re-sealed, I have once again put off making the switch. If they had left it alone, I would already have a 1080P projector and be buying...