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we can hope that the whole damn thing just falls apart

yep it could still be dead w/ the platters still spinning.

could be a dying or dead hd try downloading the Ultimate Boot CD: i keep a copy here boot from it and try running some of the hd diagnostic apps

picked up my HE-5's at the post office this morning and am now giving them a first listen.

delayed till Feb. now

To me they were just very boring and lifeless sounding phones.

I use two and they are the best pillows I've ever had.

a desktop board is fine, you could use the on-board sata and software raid and/or additional raid cards. really depends on how many drives you have.

with that much data it's stupid to be spreading it over multiple single drives, at least setup a server w/ a raid 5 or 6 array. it's no replacement for real backups but will protect against drive failures.

denon 9200? didn't know such a thing existed, if you mean the exemplar 2900 it sure as hell doesn't use EL-34s.....

It's still one of the best blu-ray players around.

XP isn't that bad, and hell it's 7 yrs old now.... Vista got a bad rap due to crappy early driver support and despite ending up as a pretty solid OS was never able to change that early perception. Windows 7 has been very good so far.

super glue?

first audio related purchase in awhile, ordered a pair of HE-5s

Happy Turkey Day

new kindle firmware update coming, adds better battery life and finally native pdf support

the 8-bay "elite" is absurd, $3.5k w/ no drives. dual disc redundancy isn't anything new it's called RAID 6.

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I'll be there for sure. Probably get in thursday/friday and leave monday/tuesday. Not sure if I'll be flying or driving though.

Yep and if she wants a 15" screen i think shes looking at min. of $1700 for macbook pro. Yeah I wouldn't buy into that mac is faster for photo stuff crap.

If you wanted to really stretch your budget, like double it I still have my Sager NP5793 for sale .

Have you thought about moving away from a soundcard? Something like a Squeezebox would be a better idea I think.

it should be ok for that

Dell's version of a Mac Mini: Dell Inspiron Zino HD Desktop

Not exactly surprising, it's ratings have been abysmal.