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Friday, October 18, 2002

Had lunch at the newly remodeled Flower (used to be That Place on Bellflower) the other day. 

It reminded me of how interesting University Circle is.  If you were to lift up UC and plop it down in another city, we would be scrambling to make reservations to go visit it.

Maybe it’s the Dorothy in Kansas mindframe but we really take it for granted.  Many of us drive by/through it twice every day and don’t think about all the amazing stuff that is crammed into that area.  Park the car from time to time and check it out.


11:12:04 AM    comment []

It's a hard rain gonna fall..

It hasn't been very well publicized but three of the major hard-drive vendors are cutting their warranties.  Maxtor, Seagate and Western Digital are reducing their warranties on standard ATA hard drives from 3 years to 1 year.

So the end user will have to read the fine print on systems a little more thoroughly.  A typical whitebox PC has a 3 year warranty (as opposed to the 1 year offered by most of the big players).  The new reduction in hard drive support may cause both types of vendors to adjust their coverage.

It’s not that the drives have less quality - it’s that they have become so cheap that the cost of processing the warranties is eating into already low margins.  So the good news is that big and fast hard drives are very inexpensive.  The bad news is that you may have to pay more for an extended warranty that used to be included.


11:06:45 AM    comment []


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