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eh thats almost just as bogus, unless your using an anocheic chamber and have precise measurements as to how far away the mic is. plus spl #'s change completely depending on the room used. xmax doesn't .

christ, why are you making such a big deal out of this? i was just using xmax as a parameter to make my point about displacement being key when it comes to subwoofers....

ok fine as a general rule of thumb for a smaller drive to have more displacement than a bigger one it needs to have a higher x-max assuming all other things equal

No shit, I'm aware of this, and just because they call it long-throw doesn't mean it actually is. Smaller drivers need to have a huge x-max to compete with bigger drivers. I'd almost guarantee that the SVS driver has a higher xmax than anything sunfire has ever used.

Subwoofer Rule #1: There's no replacement for displacement. Unless that 10" pushes a serious amount of air, I wouldn't expect a ton of volume down in the low 20hz range. Even with the 1000W amp.

Haven't tried out the headphone jack yet. Yep, read and write.

Actually it does sync with Google Calendars straight out of the box.

Yep it's on the top, right in the middle.

Almost forgot what will likely be pretty huge for the Pre's future as a gaming device, it'll have full Flash support by the end of year (confirmed by both Adobe and Palm).

I have the Everything 450 plan, it's 450 minutes + unlimited data (this includes texting) for $70 month.

I think the Pre will be very successful, but the more interesting question is how well will Palm's WebOS work on future phones? There's already at least 2 or 3 more phones from Palm in the works and they all appear to run WebOS. While the Pre is important it's WebOS that's crucial.

Thats not surprising, 6.5 is just a bandaid so once you get past the top-level UI it pretty much is the same as 6.1. 7 on the other hand is supposed to be a complete re-write from the ground up.

I haven't noticed any lagginess really, even with several apps open it's still far more responsive than the iPhone is. I do agree that I think Palm is going to get more market share away from RIM than they will Apple.

Yeah WM isn't the most user friendly thing in the world, with the Pre to switch between open apps, pressing the center button brings up a view of all the open apps, then just cycle through them. It's sort of like coverflow.

Yes that's one of it's big advantages, it handles having 10-15 apps open at once really well and the system they have for switching between open apps is really slick.

Verizon will get it sometime next year, I wouldn't be surprised if AT&T does as well.

So I picked up a Pre last Friday and I've been using it pretty heavily since then. The screen is very nice, on par with the iPhone's I'd say (the iphones being a glass touchscreen does get the edge in scratch resistance). The interface is really intuitive and done very well. The little "gesture" area below the screen fits in with the overall interface quite well and it works flawlessly. It's also hard to overstate how nice it is to finally have true multi-tasking on a smartphone. I often find myself having the Pandora app streaming in the background while texting or sending e-mails. Of course there is also the keyboard to talk about, I'm one of those people that really likes having a physical keyboard and the Pre's is pretty nice. Each key is raised and there's enough spacing between them that even someone with fat fingers like myself can use it without any problems. It's the best smartphone I've ever used, if you have Sprint I highly recommend getting one.

Regular spdif or toslink input would be way more useful/interesting than usb input. Especially at that price.

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I've been reading about these complaints regarding HDMI cables for years now and while I agree the design is pretty piss poor I still wonder how many people have actually had connectors fail and that sort of thing?

I've probably built 20+ pc's using the cheap coolermaster centurion line of cases over the past year and have never run into that problem.

yeah that's probably doable

Nate, check the attached pdf, $459 before shipping nate-pc.pdf

If I recall AutoCAD only takes advantage of the pro-versions of the GPUs. Coolermaster has some decent cases for about $50 and I would also recommend newegg over mwave. I've used mwave in the past and their shipping prices tended be very high.