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Yep - dead right!
And the Mac does come with full encryption if you want it. Just remember that "pass phrase"!
Is Bethesda safe? I should I keep moving west?
Indeed. One of my friends lives in DC (and in a high crime part of DC, no less), has plenty of computer equipment and music gear, and has never had anything stolen.
The 8700M is only going in big 17" notebooks anyway (the Toshiba WXW that was just announced is almost 9 pounds and 2 inches thick). The 8600M GT is going to remain pretty much the cream of the crop as far as 15" notebook GPU's go for a while.
Well beyond3d didn't have too much technical info on it. They are expecting it to be a G84, probably clocked to desktop 8600GTS speeds. I still think it is a good canidate for the iMac update...
Your friend is lucky and/or vigilant. I lived more towards downtown DC (crime was there but it wasn't bad), and it's not like you could just leave things laying around or leave your car unlocked.
All kinda of OT.
My friend/co-worker left his Neon at the Anacostia Metro station unlocked with the keys in it over night and it was still there the next day. Odd, but honestly true...
We though so as well. He really hated that car... It was his mom's but she couldn't afford to pay for it and he was the co-signer (lesson learned there). He was kinda hoping it would get stolen so he didn't have to worry about it. Ah well.
Disk Performance
I would add that based upon my experience thus far that the Fujitsu drive is much slower particularly on reads than the Hitachi drive and perhaps other manufacturers. I have the same new SR MBP and I also noticed the exact issue since I also have a non SR 2.33Ghz model as well with the Hitachi drive. The Hitachi drive is pretty much always faster which is what skews these results. I am actually considering RMA's to drive to get a different drive as it is quite noticeable to me.
I would add that based upon my experience thus far that the Fujitsu drive is much slower particularly on reads than the Hitachi drive and perhaps other manufacturers. I have the same new SR MBP and I also noticed the exact issue since I also have a non SR 2.33Ghz model as well with the Hitachi drive. The Hitachi drive is pretty much always faster which is what skews these results. I am actually considering RMA's to drive to get a different drive as it is quite noticeable to me.