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Big.Wayne, which of those do you think best describes AnandTech? After all, in their review of the GTX460, they said: "However NVIDIA also has the 1GB version of the GTX 460, with more RAM, more L2 cache, and more ROPs for $30 (15%) more. The 1GB GTX 460 isn’t 15% faster, but at the same time...

Congrats, I think this could work out well for you. Although you mentioned desktop replacement, you also mentioned portability. With the use of the external monitor with the Z (perhaps along with external keyboard and mouse, etc) when at home, you have a reasonably well specced desktop...

Some friends had similar requirements so I've been on a hunt for a bargain. Have bought them a HP G62-105SA: Intel Core i3 Processor i3-330M Integrated Intel HD graphics 15.6" 1366x768 LED screen 3GB DDR3 RAM 320GB HDD @ 7200rpm Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit 802.11 b/g/n Wireless LAN...

The Vaio Z is an amazingly successful piece of miniaturisation, and if money really is no issue then it's difficult to make any case against it for your purposes. I suppose if one of your peers is a leftie "property is theft" type (no shortage of those in higher ed), they might take direct...

You can do a completely clean install of the Windows that comes with the laptop (using the recovery disks or the recovery partition) and it will be auto-activated. As you noted with your method (which is the same result, just more effort) the laptop doesn't work properly and you have to install...

That's a bit of a rat stain to say the least. Typical Sony though. If you'd benefitted from this hindsight it would probably still have been worth the cost for the ease of adding an SSD later and/or upsizing the HDD storage. Glad you're pleased with the device. Thanks for the mini review.

"would i see a significant performance gain?" To the laptop yes; especially on bootup. You'll have everything ready to go within thirty seconds or so. For your applications, not so much. They might start faster if you put them on the SSD, but you won't see much, if any, improvement once...

The EB and EC 2s are on their way in as the 1s are on their way out: http://www.sony.co.uk/product/vn-e-series The 14" EAs are still current. There's new AMD powered EEs and EFs coming too. Getting quite complicated. Definitely worth comparing an F with an E; there's quite a difference...

Next time you're in a purple shop, take a look at the Sony F series and see if the 16.4" screen at 1920x1080 is unsuitable compared to a 17". The F is a lot better than the E in some ways, and is more portable. One major advantage for the E, though, is that it can accomodate two drives. This...

Here's an alternative: http://www.protectionfilms24.com/article/vikuiti-armr200-screen-protector-notebooks-with-33,8-cm-screens-294-x-165,5-mm,-aspect-ratio-169-32654.html That takes you to the size I was considering but you should see they have all sorts (and can cut to fit). Video (in...

Looks very steep to me for a contemporary SSD on a TRIM enabled system. That's still almost a 25% drop off (using the overall score). Look at this quote from this article: http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/storage/2010/02/04/windows-7-ssd-performance-and-trim/14 "The Intel X25-M 160GB’s...

Mine has suffered a similar benchmark slowdown (with 45GB+ free, latest firmware on Win7 64). Interesting. Not that it's made any noticable difference to everyday subjective experience...

Does the Panasonic G20 handle non-widescreen conventional tv (4:3)? Is there a screen size adjustment or is that format now so outdated that they don't bother? If there is a 4:3 screen ratio setting, how are the 'borders' down the sides presented - black, grey or other?

Price reductions will be proportional to the success of Fermi. If Fermi is a fast, reliable and attainable card at a reasonable price, then residual stocks of 200 Series cards will rapidly drop in value. If Fermi is a dud and/or unavailable at a stupid price then there'll still be a market for...

In order to keep eroding Nvidia's marketing lead, I think ATI will want to release a single GPU card to top the 480 as soon as possible. Obviously they'll need to see what the green card can do first (and this need could be as much a reason for Nvidia keeping its cards close to its chest as...

Une nouvelle boîte.: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBRxQovIVAc

Fractal R2 207mm (W) x 440mm (H) x 521mm (D) Antec P183 205mm (W) x 514mm (H) x 507mm (D) Another option is the Antec Solo Quiet Mini Tower Case: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-058-AN&groupid=701&catid=7&subcat=160 It fulfils your stated requirements so...

The Intel Value SSD would be a good choice for your current PC - except for the rather small size. I've read you need to keep about 20% of space free on SSDs to allow the controller to easily move stuff around as part of its wear spreading routine. So 30Gb is about as much as you can put on...

I've got an old laptop HDD somewhere that'll do that nicely. Yours for free. :D I'd leave the default "Program Files" destination on the C: drive as standard. If faster boot times are your aim, then you need to put any programs that fire up with Windows on the SSD. It's one thing to boot...

The Asus P4C800-E Deluxe appears to have only SATA I ports / controllers onboard. This means you'll never see the full speeds of the SATA II spec Intel drive in this setup. The SSD will still be nippier than an HDD but you'll be losing a lot in SSD terms. Ironically, this slowness will relieve...