Unless, of course, you opt for the $90/year prime shipping option.

It *really* changes the way you shop when you don't have to factor in shipping costs.

I had the same problem on my dell laptop. I *think* it was caused by a bad thermal sensor, because once I maxed my processor @ 100% for about a minute, it would switch to 800Mhz mode and *never* come back up to 1.4.

I did finally disassemble the board, but couldn't seem to locate the bugger.

Funny that, I've got a new *laptop* that can't play BluRay on the --built-in-- screen. I fire the movie demo disc (from 2005) into my new acer (now running windows 7) and it says "cannot play, unauthorized screen".

Not to mention that the case itself was poorly designed. It was solid aluminum with no fan, but the aluminum was too far away from the drives, creating a nice little oven for the poor 500GB drives inside.

We lost FOUR out of FIVE in under two years. The only reason the fifth didn't fail was because it was in a freezing cold server room.

No, we need more easily achievable "life-goals" that can be conquered via sitting behind a keyboard.

This fills that nicely!

Why yes, we do have traffic lights, but they're really not needed cause they don't do much except scare the horses.

So what inverter did you use?

so maybe a time for a good clinical trial!

Their is something else wrong with your config, I'm running the exact same drive and getting a 4.8 (in vista)

And if you think it can't happen, just look what happened to ISP's NNTP offerings.

All gone. Under the guise of "fighting child porn"

EA was only partially at fault. Dice just designed the game badly and didn't test worth a damn against Vista clients before releasing it to the masses. Now whether or not that EA forced them to release early is something else, but just look at the SIZE of the patches for BF2 and BF2142. 512MB for the last BF2 patch...compared to the smaller 16-30MB patches for CoD4. It just screams bad early design.

The first through fourth gen PS2 had the same problem. I would get radial scratches on the disc, one of which (GTA:VC) never even left the console until I was through playing it.