Knuckledragger

It's a Mushkin Chronos, which was very well reviewed. What happened last night was I used Super Duper to copy my original HDD's contents to the SSD, swapped drives and rebooted. Boot time was impressive, as was FFX loading. I had a 15 minute YouTube clip playing while I did the dishes. It ground to a halt in the middle of the video, and my pointer was stuck on beachball. I let it sit for about 10 minutes, but it did not recover. I then held down the power button to force a shutdown. When I powered the laptop back on, it flashed the "no disk" icon. I have an Thermaltake BlacX, and when I plug the SSD into it this afternoon, Disk Utility doesn't show any drives connected other than my lappy's internal HDD and optical drive.

Ugh. The SSD I got for my Macbook bricked itself 20 minutes after I installed it. The performance during those 20 minutes was pretty amazing, however.

James Dean and his Rollei.

QWOP in real life.

^ The last Ferrari that Enzo designed. The F50 is fugly in comparison.

There have been multiple reports of Retina iMacs coming in 2013 and a retina 27" Thunderbolt monitor appearing after them. I would not hold my breath waiting for the reintroduction of the 30" in any form. What I'm curious about is how the development of Retina displays is going to affect companies like Eizo, who are in the business of producing monitors better than anything AAPL makes. Will they be inspired to produce a retina-style panel of their own? I'd love to see it, but I shudder at the price. Eizo displays are already 1.5x to 5x the cost of an equivalent Apple monitor.