Posts by alcoris

Sorry, been busy formatting and setting up... June 5: Miracle of miracles... An angel from heaven wearing a UPS uniform gave me a box. Within, I found my beloved notebook PC.

Thanks, unclebrudy. UPDATE: Day 72 May 26: I'm told that for the last two weeks, there's been some kind of red tape holdup between Warrantech and Anew. Thus, there's been no change to the status. It's still at Sager awaiting...

UPDATE: No change. Just called Anew again, got the same speech about "it's been sent to Sager - we expect it to be 10 to 15 business days". Day 62

Just as a quick update to the original post... No change. Still down, day 55.

I figured I would chronicle my experience here so that folks can see it. Maybe someone with contacts and a cattle prod will care enough to make a phone call to someone with more contacts and a bigger cattle prod. * March 16, my 9860...

The higher density of the platters makes the sustained reading better - not the bus itself. Quote: Is there any point for the SATA over regular ATA? Considering the only benefit for sata is the bandwidth improvment...its...

Quote: Is it possible to RAID external SATA drives? That would be a function of the controller (the CardBus card in question), so I'd check that item's documentation to find out. I've never seen any RAID capable...

Ditto on the Indigo IO. Great little card.

I can't answer your latency question, but I can say that I prefer the Echo Indigo to the Audigy ZS notebook. I own both cards, and only use the Audigy card when I'm needing 5.1 out or the lower-profile card (the Echo card's volume...

Any ETA on a review of the 5320? I'm interested. Particular items I'm interested in are: -battery life (with the modular one) -heat (i.e., how warm does the machine get; exhaust temp isn't a concern) -noise level -sound quality...