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Garcian Smith on 18 January 2010
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vlad321 said:

A quick note on your optical Blu-ray drivers. In my experience LG has been far better than Sony ones, and many people agree. In fact I think LG has been making the best ones.

I'm too lazy to read all of it to offer more criticism other than the fact that when it comes to power making a PC as powerful as an HD console is more or less the same price, not "significantly" as you put it. For a PC to be significantly costlier it would be significantly more powerful than either HD console too.

 

Esit: Seagate HDDs have recently started to be the worst possible HDDs with a higher failure rate, also Western Digital's Caviar Green HDDs also have a horrendous failure rate. Stay away from both brands.

Thanks for the tips! I don't know that much about Blu-Ray drives, having not become an adopter of the format yet, so I've added a recommendation for LG drives to the OP. As for hard drives, I wouldn't believe anecdotes on the 'net when it comes to the reliability of a certain brand; however, Caviar Greens only run at 5400 RPMs, so I wouldn't recommend them in the first place.



"'Casual games' are something the 'Game Industry' invented to explain away the Wii success instead of actually listening or looking at what Nintendo did. There is no 'casual strategy' from Nintendo. 'Accessible strategy', yes, but ‘casual gamers’ is just the 'Game Industry''s polite way of saying what they feel: 'retarded gamers'."

 -Sean Malstrom