Sean? I didn't know you were on Slashdot!!

Figures...whenever there's something I want to mod up, I never have the points for it.

I've got an e-machines laptop with that duo (see Woot sometime last week).

I've got to say, I didn't have terribly high hopes going in (~$300...and e-machines), but it plays 720p content just fine, edits my source code with very little lag, and can actually playback 1080p content well enough (when plugged into my TV...so the 1080 is actually useful).

Still sucks for games...but I don't play much.

So say we all...

So to further the OP's analogy, the thief was in your home because you were at his video arcade playing the games he offers for free, but not buying any of the merch he sells...

It really sounded less convoluted when I started this post.

Good to know I'm not the only lunatic who shed cable in favor of Netflix, Hulu, YouTube, and any other random site serving up video.

It is difficult to get live feeds of some things though.

His assertion is that 32GB is insufficient to run a functional system on. I asserted otherwise using my system as an example. While it's highly likely that a Vista install is larger than an XP install, it's unlikely that it's nearly 10GB larger.

So yes, I call shenanigans on his primary assertion; however I cannot speak to the availability of Sony drivers for a laptop.

I've got to say, from an IOPs perspective, that's extremely disappointing. ~24k IO/s max @ 8k. By their own chart they're getting about 233 IO/s per disk. I can get 1500 on a USB key on my desktop @ 8k. Granted, that's only running in 1 thread (they're using 128 which comes with some overhead).

I dunno, it just seems really low. I expected something more in the 200k-300k range.

Am I missing something critical? Are they running over a 100Mb network?