I see the crowd from the recent KZN meet got their picture in the magazine this month. Page 20. Nice.
I haven't read very much of the magazine yet--little more than Nab's Soap Box rant and a couple of letters (did KB award Mail of the Month this month?)--but it struck me (pleasantly) once again that there is actual hardware on the cover.
Just a few months ago we were being told that monthly sales drop just below Casper the Friendly Ghost sales if a scantily clad cover model does not adorn the front. What happened?
ran out of models?
ran out of money for models?
decided to hold an in house competition for who gets to be on the cover and got bombarded with Jamin pics so they couldn't chose a model?
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Great issue1 Really enjoyed the bit on making surround sound headphones.
The Fastest drive I've seen is the Seagate Cheetah that spins at around 1500rpm, and has a sustained transfer rate of more than 100mb a second. I'm still very sceptical of SSD drives because of their limited lifespan, their tendancies to slow down quite a bit over time and when they get full, and relatively high cost per Gig ratio. Also, I've seen that data recovery from SSD drives are pretty tough or next to impossible. They are amazingly fast when new and uncluttered though!
I was also thinking that since PCF included a nice gamers Linux on their disc, they might dedicate a page to Linux for how-to's, software etc. For anybody who doesn't want to go the Windows route.
Glingfram wrote:Great issue1 Really enjoyed the bit on making surround sound headphones.
The Fastest drive I've seen is the Seagate Cheetah that spins at around 1500rpm, and has a sustained transfer rate of more than 100mb a second. I'm still very sceptical of SSD drives because of their limited lifespan, their tendancies to slow down quite a bit over time and when they get full, and relatively high cost per Gig ratio. Also, I've seen that data recovery from SSD drives are pretty tough or next to impossible. They are amazingly fast when new and uncluttered though!
I was also thinking that since PCF included a nice gamers Linux on their disc, they might dedicate a page to Linux for how-to's, software etc. For anybody who doesn't want to go the Windows route.
Welcome to the forum man! Just to let you know, the linux thing has been discussed ad nauseum around these parts with the decision being that distros may be included on the cover disc, but the magazine is still PC Format, NOT Linux Format and will stay that way.
Glingfram wrote:I'm still very skeptical of SSD drives because of their limited lifespan, their tendencies to slow down quite a bit over time and when they get full...
Quoted lines are on the verge of being solved - if not already.
Glingfram wrote:I'm still very skeptical of SSD drives because of their limited lifespan, their tendencies to slow down quite a bit over time and when they get full...
Quoted lines are on the verge of being solved - if not already.
Glingfram wrote:I'm still very skeptical of SSD drives because of their limited lifespan, their tendencies to slow down quite a bit over time and when they get full...
Quoted lines are on the verge of being solved - if not already.
As Soj said it is on the verge of being solved. With TRIM things have improved big time.
/wonder if he will come back to this thread to see those articles...
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Yeah those articles are interesting, and there will definitely be progress on those drives, they are the future, it just needs a bit of time before it viable for the general user.
One of my clients uses Revit to render images, and the SSD brought the time down from 20min a render to 9. I was pretty impressed with that.
I love the models, but the hardware on the cover did it for me! Did'nt think this day would come...
I was looking for hardware reviews (in print) as I wanted to buy future proof and PCFormat was the ONLY mag with a real hardware review. Can we please have more?
