Back in the day to get higher read speeds some drives had multiple heads (up to 5 i think?) to rip at higher speeds. These were around the time disks would explode. I think we got up to 50x-70x read speeds back then. But yes, the majority have one head that may or may not include more than one laser such as a bluray drive.

I like a lot of it, but hate a lot of it too. They need to step up and re-double their effort for Windows 9 and do it yesterday. Fix some really, reaallyyyy stupid bugs that have plauged daily life in IT shops.

The start screen is a joke too. But you get over it, my co-workers have. We run Seven usually.

It is what it is.

I picked up some drives for testing, and HP's are rebranded LiteON drives that, both are stupid-loud and sound like they'll explode.

Parent used IE to surf the web, clearly.

What about linux? Think of the penguins!

Its too bad that GPU acceleration on the VM world is so infantile right now. Hyper-V and VMWare can sorta do it OK but again, it has its issues and problems such as overhead or just not running all together (certain apps want certain cards.)

No one in a business is going to drop $4000 on a card to render kitty videos faster for the accounting department, no, these are for CAD and design engineers who want to go thin client.

I just purchased 4 of said 6850 for about $105 a pop. What rocks do you live under good sir?

This is depressing. I had a Palm (color) that could run circles around this, had brilliant color (compared to none) and could do the same things much much easier and then some, for a mear $110 +$7~ for the software. Keep going america!

I agree. I had a cart full of WD Black 1.5TB Drives for $67.99 each like the week of the flood. I was going to buy 5 of them for a RAID10 + HS setup, but they shot up over $140 each so forget it.

Play-doh is what kids really want, apparently. We got a 6 pack and they'd take that and ignore the ass-ton of candy my wife got and run away in joy. This year we're going to get a 5-gal bucket of the crap in fun size containers and some candy for those kids who are normal

Hurray for more space garbage!!

Why did they include the drone picture - its horribly fuzzy and I get nothing of value from it. The picture of earth from the moon, I do like a LOT.

Its a shame too. Around the AMD Athlon X2 era they were ahead of intel in every way. My dual-core Athlon X2 was faster and power sipping at 45W where intel was at 95W for their crappy Pentium D's. AMD lost its way somewhere, heres hoping they get it back.