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post #121 of 542
10/27/09 at 1:01pm
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No I'm going to wait for now. I prematurely sold my M17x, I won't do the same with my SSD and qx9300. I do plan on making a decision by Black Friday/Cyber Monday weekend.

I've been checking out the HP Envy today. I like the aluminum coated body but I don't like the buttonless touchpad.
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post #122 of 542
10/27/09 at 4:47pm
Great,free upgrade to special edition after I order
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post #123 of 542
10/27/09 at 6:48pm
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If your talking about that email from today the $1999 deal they've had for a while now is a much better deal.
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post #124 of 542
10/28/09 at 9:31am
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Quote:
Originally Posted by dave-p View Post
So you interested in selling your 256 GB SSD Drive by chance ?
I did put my proc up in the marketplace but it looks like you won't need it.
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post #125 of 542
10/28/09 at 8:36pm
I am still hunting down the SSD dirve, and will likely go for some 4 GB DDR3 Sticks in the next while.

Seen them as low as $ 250.00 in Flea Bay
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post #126 of 542
10/28/09 at 9:45pm
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When buying ram I always go for quality over quantity. If I had a use for more than 4GB of memory that would be a different story.
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post #127 of 542
10/29/09 at 2:56am
On the plus side for then ENVY you can outfit 8GB of 1333 cheaply since there is 4 slots. Real shame what they did about the 4870x2 I hope they dont blunder up the Geforce 300M
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post #128 of 542
10/29/09 at 9:13am
The only real beef I have with the M17x is they did not have 4 DIMM slots,
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post #129 of 542
10/29/09 at 9:17am
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There has been a similar blunder with the Envy 15. It was initially advertised with a E2E screen. Then when people found out it wasn't HP changed it on their website. I just love big business!

Anyway one of my wife's friends works for HP. I'm trying to see if I can get a discount on one.
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post #130 of 542
10/29/09 at 6:54pm
I have followed the ENVY launch from hype to paper launch and expect my unit any day now I have yet to see any info regarding the E2E type display in fact I was expecting the poorer quality 768p screens found on all 15 inch pavilions but was a little surprised to see the 1080p screen considering the weak GPU it has. I'll be able to do comparisons with the M15x as soon as it arrives.
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post #131 of 542
10/29/09 at 9:49pm
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You're collecting systems now.
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post #132 of 542
10/31/09 at 12:10am
gotta find the one and the m17x is a little too big for my lap/desk
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post #133 of 542
11/4/09 at 10:06am
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Let me know how the Envy turns out. I don't think I'm replacing my T60p until next year. I want to see the new lenovo systems.

On that note now that I sold my proc, 1066 HyperX memory and SSD....I reordered the system. Probably sold my stuff a little too early. I still have the HyperX 1333 memory which I plan on using.

I read some bad things about SSDs and RAID so now I don't plan on going that route. I did go out and buy the Intel G2 SSD everyone has been talking about. Too bad the biggest size is 160GB. I wanted to see how that compares to the OCZ summit drive I have and the Samsung PB22-J SSD.
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post #134 of 542
11/4/09 at 3:34pm
what are the bad things abut SSD drives in raid you read about ?
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post #135 of 542
11/4/09 at 5:49pm
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Windows TRIM or other third part garbage collecting tools do not support RAID.
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post #136 of 542
11/4/09 at 8:47pm
I dont trust garbage collection based SSDs which is optional on Indillinix barefoot drives. Right now if you had the money to blow the agility ex 128gb (SLC model) will yield the absolutely highest performance per buck. I personally use Vertex drives which currently can max out the SATA2 connection which is really handy transferring files between drives and makes for really quick load times.
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post #137 of 542
11/4/09 at 9:30pm
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OCZ site says the Agility EX only comes in a 60GB flavor. The Vertex EX has a 120GB option. I guess there both SLC.

Yikes $1300 for the Vertex EX 120GB. I only paid $450 for the Intel G2 and that's 160GB. I'd don't care of it's SLC. Way too much.
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post #138 of 542
11/4/09 at 10:27pm
I guess I will see how 2 Samsung drives will play together in raid mode soon.
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post #139 of 542
11/5/09 at 12:45am
I never done the raid mode. is it a lot faster?
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post #140 of 542
11/5/09 at 1:21am
Yes Raid can be faster.

When set up in raid 0 - striping the data is spread across the two drives
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