Posts by PurpleLion

Plus, support for 5 spindles - unprecedented as far as I know. Fantastic keyboard. Excellent sounding speakers (this was a recent shock to me since I always thought that they were bad - have not really used them much, but while...

I don't think that there is a 17" WUXGA screen being manufactured right now. But, it is extremely likely that one is about to come out since many manufacturers are building a 17" notebook. I think that the 17" format...

WUXGA would be great, BUT!! 2 spindles! NG There is no point in having a raid option in a 2 spindle design. A modern notebook must have at least one optical drive. If the final machine is really only two spindles, they will have to...

Quote: Originally Posted by aussie Purple have you tried the RAID setup yet under actual video editing conditions? No, I have not. I've just done some benchmarks. I am more interested in the photo editing...

Actually, raid 0 pretty much doubles the media transfer rate. Now, this will not double drive speed if you are writing small sporatic files which just go to cache, but if you are writing constant large files, then cache drops out of the...

Quote: Originally Posted by Andy For most people all a RAID 0 does is give you twice the chance of data loss. I have heard this before, but am not sure where the idea comes from. Yes, you are using two drives...

LG has a 17" WSXGA+ (1680x1050) screen, but I don't believe that it is in production yet.

The 8890 motherboard is speced to support the Prescott, as are most of the 865PE based chipset machines currently out. Adam confirmed awhile back that the 8890 power supply meets Prescott requirements. The wild card is the power...

Quote: Originally posted by Mktdude If I'm correct, the 3.2 P4EE should be able to be sub'd for a reg. 3.2 P4 HT and have performance around a 3.2-3.4 Prescott considering the extra cache, so maybe this might be an option...

Could be a good 8890 alternative except for the screen resolution. WSXGA+ (1680x1050) and WUXGA (1920x1200) options would make it perfect. The current 17" 1440x900 panel is only 6 bit - not sure if this is what would be used...