Posts by galahad05

I'm in. Daddy needs a new SSD! 1) I own a very basic 64 GB Kingston. It's fairly slow and low capacity by modern SSD standards, but even so it runs circles around my WD Caviar black series drive. I am indeed considering a new SSD for...

I heard some rumors that a PM was just (or just about to be) sent to one lucky person.

For cold temps, usually the silicon ICs have no problem (assuming no moisture), but you could suffer mechanical stresses due to the cold temps--> you might have open circuits around some of the package pins due to uneven shrinkage of the...

Most components on a motherboard are spec'ed to 0 Celsius operating, or often -40 Celsius storage. But usually the whole package has lower margin. And indeed, based on a search I just did, it looks like the baseline (cold) specs for this...

Alright, I'll give it a go. 1. Brand of SSD I'm considering: official answer ---> OCZ detailed answer --> 2-horse race between Intel and OCZ. 2. What am I looking for: official answer --> Performance detailed answer --> Between these...

Quote:Originally Posted by tphive I've tried removing all but the wifi, guess that's next. The unit is quite clean too, so dust isn't an issue. What do you mean exactly by 'baking'?  If it's anything like baking a 360, I don't know...

There are a number of quality shareware/freeware partition tools out there. Look into, for example, Minitool Partition Wizard Home Edition. It has a "partition recovery" feature right up your alley.

Reminder: Lenovo.

It would give them access to the U.S. (and world) corporate IT market.

Welcome to all PC manufacturing in Japan, Taiwan, or China. More likely China. We'll see if quality goes down.