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I have recently updated my resume for any of you whom may be interested. I now include my work with CS3 products as well as my working knowledge with Adobe Flex.
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I know the TV I want to get, but still waiting to see if Santa brings it to me.
well it is as official as it can possibly be, without CompUSA actually making it a public announcement [unless they already have]…. They are going out of business, completely! *Currently they are having a nice sale, so stop in and get your last minute shopping done…
They will be sending all of their vendors and warranties to Best Buy, so from the good customer service at CompUSA - expect to get really crappy, slow, and disrepectful service from Best Buy. Wow - that leaves two stores even worth going into anymore: HHGregg, and Tweeter.
I will just order all my other things online, because you cannot beat the service from NewEgg and TigerDirect.
I think it is supposed to snow in the Winter. When will NC get some?
When I first purchased 2 of these Raptors, I set them up to run as RAID 0, and from my experience I felt they were just as fast as many of the SCSI RAIDS I had used in the past! I was quite impressed, but soon realized I wanted test their speed and benchmark them in comparison to what I was so use to already, which was having a Primary and Secondary set of Seagate’s 200Gb, 7200 RPM. There was no comparison!
Here is a few Specifications about the drive that I believe any media user, graphic artist, or gamer would like to know about:
Rotational Speed
10,000 RPM (nominal)
Buffer Size
16 MB
Average Latency
2.99 ms (nominal)
Start/Stop Cycles
20,000 minimum
Formatted Capacity
150,039 MB
Capacity
150 GB
Interface SATA
1.5 Gb/s
User Sectors Per Drive
293,046,768
Seek Times
Read Seek Time
4.6 ms
Write Seek Time
5.2 ms (average)
Track-To-Track Seek Time
0.4 ms (average)
Full Stroke Seek
10.2 ms (average)
Transfer Rates
Buffer To Host (Serial ATA)
1.5 Gb/s (Max)
Transfer Rate (Buffer To Disk)
84 MB/s (Sustained)
I would give this drive 5 out of 5 stars!
This is a great external hard drive line - one of the best ideas Western Digital has put out, other than their Raptor SATA drives, which I will review in the upcoming days.
These days, I have found most monitors to be the same. Some that are dreadful, some that are spectacular, but most are just OK. One monitor that’s a good bet for the Spectacular category will be the LG Flatron L226WTQ ~ the world’s first LCD computer monitor that LG is claiming to have a 5,000:1 contrast ratio.
A high contrast ratio, for those not in the know, keeps images from looking washed out. You get very dark blacks, very bright whites, and ultimately a better picture. It’s not that useful when you’re editing images, doing desktop publishing or other dull office tasks, but it’s jolly good for watching movies and for a great gaming experience.
The word so far on the street about the L226WTQ for the last few weeks has been the typical comments like “we can’t verify the exact contrast ratio” (few people can), it’s packing some seriously BLACK Blacks, and awesome WHITE Whites. The color reproduction seems pretty good too, plus you get 2ms gray-to-gray response time, HDCP over DVI-I for high-definition content, and a one-touch zoom function that lets you switch to lower resolutions if your eyes can’t cope with 1,680×1,050 pixels.
The L226WTQ is available in black or a rather unattractive shade of gray for around about $300-$350. Look to see it at Best Buy, H.H. Gregg, NewEgg.com, and TigerDirect in plenty of time for Christmas.
