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It is much more likely that they weren't very impressed with the things that people were requesting be engraved on the phones.

If the product was launched, you could theoretically go into a store, observe it's price, pick it up, and purchase it. This is not a launched product.

Being an engineering sample this doesn't really mean very much. IIRC the IB engineering samples were also soldered on. De-lid a production chip and get back to me.

SSD Manufacturers aren't pricing their products so high because they want to squeeze every dime they possibly can from the consumer. They are priced like this because the tech is expensive. Flash Memory chips are expensive. For the chips alone, it still costs over a dollar per gig. Add to that...

I would like to see a benchmark throwdown between this and a WD Velociraptor.

I'm going to echo a bunch of other people on this one, but they are good ideas. I'll try to add a few of my own. I don't want legacy connectors on my motherboard. (PATA, Floppy, PS2, etc) (This one is loudly spoken in most of the posts) I disagree with the modular idea. Motherboards ARE...