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zeroprime
03:44 PM

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Ouch, my bank account.
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dagamer34
11/24/09

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That 3.5" 1.5TB internal Seagate HD better be a 7200RPM drive or NO DEAL.
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ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNO-TOAD
11/23/09

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Those seagate hard drives are a great deal. I bought two for $119 each during the summer, one died within a week and was replaced (and is fully functional) and the other is starting to report a lot of bad blocks. But that won't stop me from buying 2 more, especially at that price.
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Gundem
11/23/09

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wow: 46" 1080P 120Hz LCD TV $699.99

Brand?
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Nathan Obbards
11/23/09

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10% Bing cashback is a pretty sweet deal.
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PurpleMonkeyDishwasher:
11/23/09

@Nathan Obbards: I don't think that's for Bing but rather for NewEgg itself.
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Nathan Obbards
11/23/09

@PurpleMonkeyDishwasher:: I've never heard of them doing anything but Bing cashback. If it's newegg itself, well then, I wonder...
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Nick
11/21/09

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46" 1080P 120Hz LCD TV $699.99

sooo, what kind of TV is this?
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bobmighty
11/22/09

@Nick: 120hz is the new LCD Tv's
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wild homes loves you but chooses darkness!
11/22/09

@bobmighty: Technically, 240hz is the new 120hz, but 120 isn't bad. It's better than average-- but the manufacturer on this one is going to decide the thing. There aren't too many companies manufacturing the actual panels found inside your TVs, but the build quality on the rest (the tuner, the bezel, the remote, the control panel, and the back-panel connectors) is going to separate the men from the boys.
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dry-roasted-peanuts
11/21/09

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Whew. I was going to be upset if they had a Logitech Harmony on that list, beings I just got it in the mail from them yesterday.
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UnderLoK
11/21/09

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The only thing I need is a new point n shoot (S90), but that thing won't be on any deals any time soon...
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P3nnst8r
11/21/09

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What about Cyber Monday?
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Duckspwn
11/20/09

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2 terabytes... 2... terabytes...
What could you possibly need that much storage for? Please, would someone enlighten me. I'm sure it is possible to fill it up, but with what? Movies? Why do you need so many movies? Music? How much music can you possibly know and listen to? Oh, wait, silly me. Porn.
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davidfbecker
11/20/09

@Duckspwn: If you're like me, you're backing up your blu-ray and DVD movies for personal (non-sharing) use, like in a Media Center or streaming through Orb. Those BD rips are huge!
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Invisiblemoose
11/20/09

@Duckspwn: Personally I fill my drives with anime.

Also, if you do video editing, HD footage takes up tons of space.
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UGAdawg
11/20/09

@Duckspwn: They said the same about 3Gb of space back in the mid 90's. Well look at us now baby.
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Duckspwn
11/20/09

@davidfbecker: Hmm, good point. Completely forgot about Blu-ray. How many gigs on average?
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dragon:ONE
11/20/09

@UGAdawg: I remember the "world's biggest hard drive" a few years back - 134 GB - from one of those various PC magazines I'd used to read before the advent of blogging.

134 GB... for, if I remember, a thousand or so dollars.

Look at it today: 2 TB for $150 is practically a steal compared to years ago.
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Duckspwn
11/20/09

@dragon:ONE: 134 GB. Am I the only one here who is annoyed by the fact that that number is not a "nice" number?
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davidfbecker
11/20/09

@Duckspwn: For BD rips it depends on the movie and the bitrates you decide to use. I've been using full-rez high def settings so that it looks exactly like it does when you play it off the disc.
Depending on the length of the movie and the intensity of the action sequences, it's been averaging between 3 and 5ish GB per movie.
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UGAdawg
11/20/09

@dragon:ONE: It's unbelievable when you think about it. Today I can carry in the palm of my hand more storage than my Pentium II computer that had 3Gb of space with Win95 installed. So when I see a drive with 2TB of storage I'm like just wait and see that thing get loaded with data.

That price that you quoted was about $50 more than what I paid for a 40GB drive in 2003, IDE at that. Sheesh!

#tips
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Duckspwn
11/20/09

@davidfbecker: Phew. That is quite a lot. Thanks for the info dude.
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frigg
11/20/09

@dragon:ONE: Talk about the rapid march of technology....

I remember when a 2 TB drive would set you back something like $175-$200. Now, you can pick one up for $150!!!!

Where will this madness end?!
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Nowell
11/20/09

@frigg: I remember when around $1 per gb was a great price for a HDD.
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mister2d
11/20/09

@Nowell: I'm sure you mean $1 per MB. :)

That's what I remember. A gigabyte hard drive was $1000. That was a steal!
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Weihovah
11/20/09

@frigg: lol... i remember it like it was yesterday...
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Nowell
11/21/09

@mister2d: I wasn't in to computer hardware back then :) I was too busy playing Legend of the Red Dragon on BBS'

#speakup
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frigg
11/21/09

@Weihovah: same. It was probably no more than 7 days ago, even though it seems like a week.

It's like this friend of mine who bought a Macbook for $999. When I was a kid, those things went for like $1099. Makes me feel so old!!!
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RomanPS
11/21/09

@Duckspwn: Who cares, it's a Seagate, avoid like a plague. WD is a much better value. Check out their ratings vs Seagate, it's worth the extra bucks. But I guess there will always be those who don't know any better and become so fixed on price they'll snatch these up, only to be highly likely to experience reliability problems with them within the year. It's statistically/historically proven, not just my mere opinion.
#Mytwocents
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UnderLoK
11/21/09

@RomanPS: I have 2 1TB's that have been great... 2 120gb's that I got when 120's came out.. 2 80's and 2 40's that are still kickin... Come to think of it, I haven't bought a WD since 8gb was as big as you can go.

The only 2 drives that I have ever had problems with were the Deathstar (IBM) and Macrapolis (they made SCSI's).
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Serpent2
11/22/09

@Duckspwn: Don't tell me you are the type of guy that says "money?! Why does that guy need so much money?! We should take it and give it to someone else!"
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Duckspwn
11/22/09

@Serpent2: Haha, no, not at all.
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wild homes loves you but chooses darkness!
11/22/09

@davidfbecker: You've got to be doing something wrong-- or maybe you don't mean "1080p" when you say full resolution... because there's no way a dual-layer Blu-Ray film can possibly be compressed @1080p into 3GB without you compression-artifacting the hell out of it.
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Project_J187
09/29/09

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Thanks for mentioning the college discount. I love being in charge of email accounts for 6 different colleges. Makes these discounts easy to get.
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RT100
09/29/09

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HEY EVERYBODY
can i get that $30 college student package and install in bootcamp on my MBP?

On the link it says "upgrade version", but I've had windows PCs in the past, just not at the moment...does that qualify?

Is it possible to format part of my drive and install Win7 on there, as a fresh install?
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G.O.B.: Come on!
09/29/09

@_rt¹⁰⁰: You're going to need to:
1. Install XP or Vista.
2. Upgrade XP to 7. (Nothing will be imported from XP)
or
3. Upgrade Vista to 7.

There is no direct migration from XP to 7. Even though the upgrade copy will technically be doing a fresh install, it wants an existing XP or Vista installation before it does it.
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davebach
09/29/09

@G.O.B.: Come on!: So the student dealy is an upgrade version? I though it was a full install disk. Like rt100, I had also hoped to take advantage of the price and install Win 7 on a Mac into either Boot Camp or Virtual Box.
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G.O.B.: Come on!
09/29/09

@davebach: Well, given that the upgrade copy IS capable of doing a full install (because it reformats and installs freshly over XP), there may be a way to "persuade" the upgrade copy to install. I don't know because I've never looked into it, but there very well may be.
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PutnamSalo
09/29/09

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@hybridr6,

There is no Windows 2003. There was Windows 2000 and before that Windows ME. I personally found ME to the worst. XP64 was pretty good if only nVidia and ATI were up to their game and wrote good drivers for it (same goes for Vista).
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OrbitalGun
09/29/09

@PutnamSalo: Windows Server 2003. A lot of people used it as a desktop OS because the 64-bit version was a lot more stable than XP's 64-bit build.
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MurdockLucius
09/29/09

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I paid $15 for Windows 7 Ultimate x64 upgrade about a week ago, and its already up and running on my MacBook.
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TheWerewolf - Sotto voce
09/29/09

In reply to The Cheapest Way to Get Windows 7
Actually, OEM installs of this kind *are* transferrable to another computer. I've done it with the Vista Home Premium OEM, so unless Microsoft has changed their policy for Win7, it should still be true. It's the bulk install pre-authorised kind that major OEMs like Dell and HP get that can't be transferred.

The main difference is that you only get 32 or 64 (no switching) and you get no customer support from Microsoft.
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