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    Who else has an SSD that died?

    Look up reviews on newegg and look at the % of 1star reviews you see for the drives you want. I think intel and crucial have the lowest fail rates with that methodology.
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    Lenovo X220 Review @ nbr

    The battery life's large leap from the previous x200/201 generations. I get about 5 hours on similar to their test settings usage (270nit vs their tested 263nit display) with an 8cell 66wH. They get near 9 hours on a 6cell/63wH. Sandy bridge seems to be a large large jump in power efficiency &...
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    Help my choose an SSD

    Just going by the intel and crucial reviews on newegg, they happen to have the lowest % of 1-star reviews which might suggest that they're less prone to failure.
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    Laptop screen extremely dark, barely see anything.

    If you think it's the backlight and plan on replacing that, I would suggest buying a 2nd backlight kit in case you snap the first light. They're pretty thin, about the thickness of a #2 lead pencil's lead core, so they can be hard to replace depending on the model. Also, when you replace them...
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    13-14 inch laptop for college ($800-900)

    If it doesn't have to be new, I would suggest checking out a tablet system. lenovo x200 tablets have good screens. for example you can pickup a 285 nit antiglare ips monitor system for 6-700 on E bayIt's plenty fast for non-gaming apps. It has a solid build quality: the keyboard especially...
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    Quality netbook or low end laptop?

    If you don't plan to do gaming or processor intensive stuff, I would look into an older laptop off ebay. For example, 200 is enough for a 2ghz core duo / 2gb / 15" 1400x1050 ips t60 thinkpad. It mostly depends on what you need. If you need great portability/battery, netbook might be better. If...
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    Laptop Screen Reviews?

    Some people install alternative FRU/parts number-matched lcd displays on thinkpads. IPS SXGA+ & UXGA on t42, t60, t60p. AFFS WXGA replacement for x200. This is the affs x200 display from a user on thinkpad.com forums- http://picasaweb.google.com/iamtsekahei/HV121WX4120?feat=directlink# I'm...
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    Sandy Bridge notebook discussion

    Yeah, pretty much costs. Screen resolution seems to not be enough of an issue for most consumers, so companies are content to push 1366x768 screens. It could simply be marketing too with the HD label being used for those screens for checklist purposes. Wide screen panels are cheaper to...
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    Which FPS'er are you?

    I do it all, but lean towards being tactical/camper. In BFBC2, I'd play recon with vss and throw tons of sensor balls, or recon as a crappy sniper camper (camp in the shrubs or further out locations).
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    Upcoming PC Game Titles (Which one will you buy?)

    Personally looking forward to diablo 3. I'm guessing I'll need to upgrade my system to run it decently, but at that point I might only be running with a laptop, so whatever I have better run it.
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    update firmware for Samsung Spinpoint F4 (as an external drive)?

    This is pretty much what I did, though I did it using this guide: http://www.bay-wolf.com/usbmemstick.htm It had pictures... but I didn't realize the boot files would be so small that I thought it hadn't been formatted properly.
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    New to SSD's need help choosing one

    I don't think you can get TRIM to work with Raid 0. The write limitations aren't much of an issue as you'd need to be shuffling a ridiculous amount of data on the level of 200gb a day to wear out a MLC in 5 years (I'm taking numbers from another post I read before).
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    which news reader can read NZB and can stitch parts together?

    A vote for sabnzbd.
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    Best CPU's of all time?

    Going from a 486/33 to pentium 200 finally let me play warcraft 2 over the modem with friends, so that was great. I remember hardocp wrote a lot about the celeron 300a performing at the level of a p2 450, even hitting 500mhz in some cases.
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    Advice on potential laptop

    I've been watching laptops in the 400-500$ range on fatwallet for awhile, and you can get some core i3/4gb setups no problem. I don't know about the build quality, but I'm guessing that's where they cut some of the corners. The video included is usually intel chipset, and they can do the first 3...
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