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Happy B-day Ryan!!! Have a great day

As if English wasn't hard enough I'm glad Ollie is back home

Big congrats to Jim and Ollie!!!

Thanks guys, I've just shot my foot Luckily the old PC still works fine. Looks like a cured it, but I didn't dare to plug back the SCSI things.

Sorry for the bad news about Ollie Best wishes.

Happy B-Day!!

IMHO if average read/write rates for a SSD are under 300Mb/s any transference bandwidth above 400Mb/s makes little to no sense. Perhaps when SSD or other storage technology manages to have significantly higher read/write speeds, those huge bandwidths make more sense.

Hugh Laurie - Let Them Talk On track 3. Quite surprised so far.

Congrats cj, it's great knowing what you want to do with your life. I'm glad you chose medicine, on the long run I find it a very satisfying profession, it feels great doing good things for other people.

He might have had his incus (anvil) dislocated

Al, while not the kind of great news we're expecting, that sounds hopeful. Best wishes and good vibes going to you

It hasn't shut down itself again. I'm considering to plug in the Adaptec and SCSI HDD again to see what happens. When it works good considering an upgrade/change seems silly.

Thanks guys for making my decision even more difficult No, seriously, on my current computer, which by the way is now behaving after I've improved CPU's heat dissipation, playing HD video over flash is a PITA. I'm not much of a gamer nor planning to do video edit, other than perhaps a few minutes of instruction videos. No Bluray, no 3D in a midterm future. So knowing that a 6000 series GPU can make things easier for the CPU watching the Berliner Philharmoniker online is very interesting. One more reason to see what's the new iMac mounting. I've checked Dell and a 27" display alone is close to 1000 euros, so building a windows computer with the same performance as the i3 iMac, would make the overall cost about the same, and a "serious gamer" computer with such display would be about the same as a quad iMac with SSD plus HDD. So unless this computer definitely crashes and I can't live much time with the MBP as the only computer, I'll wait to see what the new iMacs have to offer. Hopefully that won't be more than a few weeks.

This too.

OK, thanks Dan. I'll keep using this PC until it crashes, which hopefully will happen after the new iMac is released. However I'll check some LCD monitors prices and PC hardware, still not completely decided to follow the iMac route

Computer still works, but the problem wasn't the SCSI stuff. It shut down itself even with the Adaptec card removed. Looks like I'll have to speed this up a bit. Almost decided to get an iMac and retiring the CRT, however: - What do you think would offer better overall performance: i3 + SSD, or quad i5 with no SSD. Considering 27" screen resolution and image quality, is it worth investing in the better GPU? Price wise the i3 + SSD + HDD + lower model GPU would be about the same as the Quad i5 + HDD + higher model GPU. - Does the iMac benefit that much of 8Gb RAM instead of 4? - Should I wait for the soon to happen iMac upgrade? If that's highly advisable, I'd try to use the MBP alone until the new iMac is launched. I really like much better working on a desktop, but if the update is going to happen soon I could wait a few weeks.

Oh thanks for the Dell tip, I always forget about them

Wow mate, horrible news, I'm sorry Keep calm, I'm sure you'll find a way to survive this issue as anything else. One doesn't grow a family and gets in the sixties by chance.

Yay mate thanks, however I couldn't make much of that list, all links lead to Amazon purchasing pages, but no real reviews, pics or technical explanations.

Thanks knuckles. I've been watching the 27" one in the iMac and it's among the best LCDs I've seen so far. I don't know if the cinema displays are even better. They're expensive, that's all I know about them, and that some years ago, they were made by Samsung and you could get them way cheaper directly, but not all Samsungs were the same as Apple used. Let's suppose I bite the iMac. Would you get an i3 dual core, lower video card, 8Gb RAM but SSD + HDD, better than the i5 quad core with higher video card, 8Gb of RAM, but no SSD? Both options would set me back about the same.

You're evil. But you are damn right too. Contrast hasn't improved over the years. Nor will my vision.

Mmm I'd need a lot of energy savings to justify the change, but thanks for the hint

I know, but considering my own back up strategies and lack of consistency it's a safe way to have better coverage than I'm having now. I'd keep copying from time to time the relevant files to an external. Yes, I know, I'm resisting myself to accept that a nicely working device isn't practical and is obsolete. However that doesn't change it has an image quality that I can't find yet on LCD displays. This thing set up at 100Hz is fatigue free, and offers a level of detail and color quality which I think is very good. I may get bigger displays in a way thinner presentation, but not really "better". More convenient probably yes, but that's all. If I were to accept the monitor change as a necessity, I'd be more prone to get the iMac. In the worst case, if it's not up to the performance I expect, and I keep missing Windows applications, I may sell it for a loss and building the standard PC anytime. I've just checked macrumours to see if it's a good time to buy an iMac, and looks like it'a not, an update is expected. I wonder if more performance for about the same price. This doesn't help much. I'll try to get the current machine working a few days/weeks more, so I can see if the iMac has more bonus points than the form factor. Is it safe buying a new Mac model as soon as it comes out? Knuckles, what mac do you use with Windows? Bootcamp or parallels?

Yep, stabbing creates deep bonds.

The VGA thing is because I'd like to keep my CRT. I like its image better than any LCD I've seen. It's also a working device which I feel is shaming to just throw away. Nobody would like a big CRT monitor nowadays However I could live with the iMac display The RAID 1 is just to have an automatic real time backup of everything I rip, download or produce. I hate having to make backups frequently. I'll look at those SSD options. Some of the parts I chose is just for availability, the online store has them on stock or with a 3 day delay max. Fancier stuff might delay the whole thing a couple of weeks.