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In other, somewhat related, news - has anyone noticed there are 256GB usb sticks around (namely, Kingston has one)? Sure, they are expensive - but come on, 256GB! I wonder what are read/write speeds of those monsters. I have 16GB stick and it takes a mini eternity to copy stuff onto it.
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The term "price gouge" is counterproductively pejorative. Being able to get it for some price is an improvement over not being able to get it at all, which, as you point out, is the alternative.
Ok, so what idiom should I use instead? I can't think of anything. Is this the market-economics version of political correctness?
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The term "price gouge" is counterproductively pejorative. Being able to get it for some price is an improvement over not being able to get it at all, which, as you point out, is the alternative.
Ok, so what idiom should I use instead? I can't think of anything. Is this the market-economics version of political correctness?
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That's retarded. Stop kissing up to Greenpeace and give me my SSD, Apple. :(
Yeah, really! They should provide options to ship with the best SSD options available, even if it has to come at a premium price. They need to let the market decide.
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The term "price gouge" is counterproductively pejorative. Being able to get it for some price is an improvement over not being able to get it at all, which, as you point out, is the alternative.
Ok, so what idiom should I use instead? I can't think of anything. Is this the market-economics version of political correctness?
Others are replying, but I don't know that there's any idiom needed. Raising the price to whatever people willingly pay is just being a merchant.
Is this the market-economics version of political correctness?
I don't think it is. Political correctness applies when people feel they can't plainly say something that's true. In this case, using "price gouging" adds nothing to the statement that prices are high except a sense of outrage, and my response was merely that I think the outrage is misplaced.
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That's retarded. Stop kissing up to Greenpeace and give me my SSD, Apple. :(
Why the downvote? What's wrong with the idea of giving consumers a choice on how 'green' they want to be? [Don't get me started on the whole 'green' bullshit.]
In other, somewhat related, news - has anyone noticed there are 256GB usb sticks around (namely, Kingston has one)? Sure, they are expensive - but come on, 256GB! I wonder what are read/write speeds of those monsters. I have 16GB stick and it takes a mini eternity to copy stuff onto it.
The day I got my 15" MacBook Pro it was obvious the hard drive is what was limiting the performance. I have done a lot of experimenting with RAM disks since I have it maxed out at 4GB. For example, intense BitTorrent downloading (and uploading) on a RAM disk frees my hard disk from the constant reads and writes so I can have high speed downloads (and verification of d/led data) and still do disk intensive activities…
Can you go into a bit of detail? How do you do that?
If shopping for an SSD at least consider the OCZ Vertex. I've been running one in my Santa Rosa MBP for 7 months with no issues and excellent performance. See ( http://blog.gtuhl.com/2009/03/26/ocz-vertex-ssd-in-a-17-sant... ) for install and before/after xbench runs.