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by techrat 12y ago
While neat, the cpu consumption this is insane. It's not even as bad when I play unaccelerated HD video.
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by techrat 12y ago
http://i.imgur.com/fGBV3SP.jpg They were set on allowing people to believe that a structural defect is only available for out of warranty service until the issue got enough attention.
633.
by techrat 12y ago
It's too bad there isn't an educational system that exists to help us learn units throughout childhood so that we can apply them to everyday tasks in our adult lives.
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by techrat 12y ago
The big issue that Apple faces is that when they market their product as perfection... even the slightest issue becomes a potentially big catastrophe. They are a victim of their own success in convincing people to have unrealistic expectati
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by techrat 12y ago
I've been using my Dropbox space as a way to turn my systems into a thin(ner) client. I install portable (ini and not registry based) Windows apps into d:\Dropbox that I know can be run in Wine and run them in Wine on my Linux systems
636.
by techrat 12y ago
Also worth looking at: http://us.hardware.info/reviews/4178/10/hardwareinfo-tests-l... Hardware.info did a "Write until it dies" test for a couple of 250GB Samsung SSDs last year. They found that th
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by techrat 12y ago
Death Stars were never applied to the drives as Hitachi Drives, but when they were still branded as IBM drives. Namely the 75GXP model era.
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by techrat 12y ago
>should I be impressed? Not really. Run a 100 watt lightbulb dimmed down to the brightness of a 1 watt bulb and it will also likely run for 100 years.