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Got (had? Find out today whether I'm working my notice or whether they're going to prove every reason why I'm leaving) 4 MSA1000s floating around - one of which had 4 shelves full of 300GB U320 disks, attached to two DL380 G5s. Which were never, ever used since turning them on. Hemorrhage...

You can't really get rid of it either. It's very, very helpful but if you are tight on space it can be very, very frustrating too.

2012 or 2324? I'm guessing the former?

It's not changed then, it's 'avoided' as it stops it writing to the same sector. As good as it is, a HDD can go on forever and a day if you're lucky, as has been demonstrated. In my lifetime, I've killed an SD card through use as it just couldn't write or read - the whole lot was corrupt.

Only get a limited number of writes to each 'sector' before it is rendered useless - unless that's been changed of late but I thought that technology was a way away.

Re: b*****d Vaios Very good idea, especially given that it's a t**t of a job to get all of the hardware working properly like the wireless switch and all that, compared to the usual offerings!

Depends what you want to do with it - as far as writes are concerned whilst they have SATA HDDs just about level pegged, it's bad for them. Myself, I'm waiting for them to cross 500MB/sec next year.

Graphics aren't bad for a proper notebook, but in terms of 'gaming' laptops then yes it's not going to set the world on fire.

I don't hate laptops, it's just they DO NOT replace desktops in terms of performance. Performance-wise, the Rock 840SLI is the winner, but specced up that's close to £6k.

SSD isn't the holy grail of performance. You're putting whatever throughput the SSD does through a laptop chipset (reduced performance compared to the desktop counterpart) into a laptop processor (again reduced performance) - I'd suggest that whilst SSD will improve things you're still going to...

Of what spec? The Quads? Not particularly - they're still hampered by the fact that they're previous generation technology with a die-shrink and a voltage cut. Usually slows them down too. So in effect, the 2.4GHz Quad laptop processor = slower than the 2.4GHz Quad LGA775/1366 equivalent.

But you won't buy a laptop on eBay? And they do come up on the odd occasion, but never the premium stuff - it tends to be snaffled within seconds and it's very difficult to get hold of.

You'll not be able to get the parts - they tend to grow legs after the product cycle. I considered doing that, but watched how the laptop I would have bought, 6 months down the line the upgraded processor was superceded but the laptop didn't take the new one because the Mfr didn't want to...

Get a big desktop then for ~£1500 that can play every game going at a reasonable rate (not quite best), and get a £500 laptop for going on cam to the MSN sluts. You've still saved money, you have good performance when you want it and you have the ability to take your laptop to bed for cyber...

www.alienware.co.uk - just specced up the cheapest Quad with SSDs and that was £2600. www.rockdirect.com - just specced up cheapest Quad with SSDs and that was £3100. Better GPU than the Alienware though. Both of those are with s**t Quads, not decent speeds. ~2GHz, and only 4GB RAM. The...

You can't lie on a bed with a quad core laptop. They have about half hour battery life at best, and weigh the same as a small adult.

Not particularly?

That'll be why. And besides, I'd use a Latitude for home. Hell, I'm off to get an E4300 when I get some pennies for my home laptop :)

Re: b*****d Vaios The laptops knock ten shades of carp out of the current HP lineup. The old ones (pre-D600 Latitude) granted were crap, but they've made a massive investment in their Laptop lineup and it shows. HP, on the other hand, are riding on the fact that the DL380 is 'the world's most...

Re: b*****d Vaios What the f**k are you on about? We're talking about Laptops here, not servers/switches/firewalls. Which, TBH, I'd consider IBM blades over HP, Cisco Switches and Juniper Firewalls. So where does that land HP? I'd also appreciate if you remained on topic rather than trying...

Re: b*****d Vaios On what grounds? Given that the majority of the world hates HP notebooks.

Nope. EVERY Curve. It just doesn't make sense the way they did it - why make a phone nowadays WITHOUT 3G? Even Apple learnt from that mistake! I'd settle for the boring old original 3G, that would be a start (384k or whatever it is!) We now only give out the Bolds - if you put them next to...

I'm with Darren. My G19 isn't wireless and neither is my G9 - they're just the way nature intended.

Actually with Vista you can do a clean installation and keep your files - just tell it to install on the same drive without formatting, it'll tell you it already has Windows on it and will move it all to a 'Windows.OLD' folder on the C drive.

Steal one.

? Pretty cool though, but an utter waste. Surely the bus is way beyond saturated at 5.2GB/s though? As you'd need to be running at 6GB/s bus speed to be able to take it, which I'm fairly sure that the controllers are stuck at 3GB/s due to the complexities of processing the data at a...

Using it for media, you need big disk typically. Office 2007 - you pay for it and you slaughter a chunk of your budget - best guesstimate is you'll end up having £400 to spend on a laptop, which leaves you with a fairly s**t one. www.ndc.co.uk is a good shout if you've seen a Dell you like.

Oooft. You've got deep pockets then? Easily on the high side of £3k for Quad Core/SSD RAID.

What I think he means is: "I don't know how to set up wireless I just put in the Virgin/Sky/CheapassISP CD and it does it all for me, but I can't because it hasn't got a CD drive. Can someone copy the CDs onto it for me if we meet up?"

295 Single PCBs are circulating now as well :) Got one on order for mine - I'm only on a Q6600 though with a couple of flash drives.