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When, late 2010? FWIW, my luck with Samsung has been much worse than with recent WD drives.

How many full 15.2 GB write/read cycles should I use to best test new memory cards? Ideally I'd like to pass most of the infant mortality curve, but of course at some point they will wear out. 5, 10, 50, 100???

Well, almost. The Canon sensors are smaller than Nikon and other brands. The 21 MP 1Ds MK III/5D II has the same sensor pitch (6.4 µm) as the 8.2 MP 20D/30D.

It looks good. http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=733

A Wimberley head is your friend for long lenses like a 500/4. ;)

The drive was received and accepted. There is some hope for a better replacement.

Sensor size is generally more important than pixel size if you have the reach to fill the frame.

They are both deactivated, so maybe it does not matter any more? :) There were some complaints in the reviews that the retail version was the same as the OEM.

That's likely not a 1:1 comparison. The 5D is probably closer or has a longer lens attached. I would not use such a low-res body as the 5D for anything at distance. A little over 4 MP in the center is not a match for 18.

I have a 250GB WD Passport shell with a 500GB drive in it. Does that count? Now I have $500 worth (3x640GB) of Seagate FreedAgent Go drives ripped up to pull the drives for a notebook and two PSDs. Is that better? At least one of the PSDs has an eSATA port in addition to USB, but my...

Over 6'2"?

Damn, good news! Leave a day early and seek medical treatment. She'd probably like you better without the infection. ;)

Are you seeing a Dr. in that area?

MP are useless without AF. Well, maybe 14-15 MP with better IQ. ;) Canon likes to retain mediocre IQ and increase the pixels.

Now the 80Gb G2 is deactivated and the old G1 version is $360. WTF?

Because the files are quite large, the writes speeds are be very fast, and it is an inexpensive camera?

I use CF cards in USB adapters, but the cards are faster than the USB. I can't wait for USB 3.0. I bought a Sandisk Cruzer type of USB drive a week ago or so. Reads were around 25 and writes around 12. Not bad, not great, but OK for $20 in the store.

I would not want to use a 7D over ISO 800 unless necessary, and then not over 1600 for sure. High-ISO NR sucks. I'm not sure that it has anything useful for me, unless maybe it focuses at f/8?

Who else but Newegg sells the Intel X25 series? Nobody likes gouging if that is the case.

The 80GB is now $499.00, a 118% increase in five days.

:cursin::cursin::cursin:

Which press are you using? How large are the runs?

There is a point of diminishing returns on cheap 24x36 bodies with high-res sensors. The lens costs as percentage of the system go up substantially if high IQ is desired. The novice users with no 135 experince will be horrified that their relatively expensive zooms are no longer up to par. It...

Bah. I remember when type was type, not a silly font, and real men used lead Linotypes. Helvetica and Times Roman forever. :)

Sure, Michael Jackson got the premium medical service. :roll:

Merc needs to move where there are better doctors. The GP would not give a referal for some reason?

It looks good for the low price I guess, but why no bluetooth and which CPU has only 2MB L2 these days?

That cheaper Sony is in the 5D II class, not the D3X or 1Ds MK III class. The original 5D was around $2000 before the 5D II was available. It's not really that much of a stretch. Basically the sensor manufacturing prices have come down. I'm still waiting for the D700x.

Why should you care about the benchmarks? Are the drives performing as intended for your purpose?

I'd be going to five different doctors by now. See what they have to say at least.

I'm still on wired mouse #2. The first one lasted from 1998-2005. I still have a couple more (USB though). With any luck they will last the remainder of my lifetime.

Dammit Merc, don't die on us now!

I can't use a non-OEM battery; the risk is too great. I shouldn't have to buy a battery, but an IT request would take forever and probably be rejected.

I like my wireless Bluetooth laser mice for notebooks. They save a crucial USB port and the hassle of dealing with a cord about 8 times a day.

Where do you buy them other than Dell? The website indicates 3-5 weeks, which is too long to wait. :(

Holy crap, the X25-E prices are way up too. :o Is there a flash manufacturing catastrophe somewhere?

The price is now $279.99. Pr*cks.

It's HBO, not porn. I've never seen a real porn film, but assume it is mostly bad based on the typical derision for the genre.

Presumably you have a backup of the boot partition in case it does not work out?

Yes, I know. :( Someone must have a robot buyer or something. The price went up $20 from yesterday and it is not available until 9/2.

I thought the purpose of the wireless hacking was to do evil and blame it on somebody else or make it anonymous.

Yes, that is what I am saying, though not clearly.

Who exactly is doing most of the wireless hacking - government, pornographers, organized crime, etc.?

Can they be fixed with firmware or will everyone spend millions and billions in replacing hardware? I suppose the defective encryption could foster plausible deniability for the sickos doing illegal things out there on the internet. :(

No. I did not trust the wireless internet even before reading that there was a security situation. I have the ethernet, but it is connected to two or so computers with a wired switch since all are nearby. I explained it another thread recently.

Those are only acronyms to me. I thought WPA was for Windows installation activations.

I hope you test every single sector. They should be more thorough at the factory, but every 1000 won saved is probably critical to their business. :tdown:

RAID is too costly and does nothing for backups, so it is an increased expense all around.

I sent the POS Samsnug off to the Egg. I'm not sure that it was worth the shipping cost+hassle, but I was at the depot for another reason. I hope they replace it with a new one.

Fortunately I don't use the WPA or WPA2.