Wow... a modern incarnation of a Commodore 64 type product. Even hooks up to your TV!!! Most early home systems had everything integrated into the keyboard and it's funny to see the industry returning to that type of low-power home computer product.
I'm a low level technician that has to deal with these slimline Pavilions all the time. Chronic HDD, PSU, and mobo failure. If you get one and leave it on all the time expect to return it several times during it's warranty period.
I've done the keyboard trick many times... It seems like everyone's trying to get too creative with the drying cycle. All you need to do is fold a bath towel in half on the floor and drop the keyboard from a height of about two feet onto the towel about 10 times. Assuming none of the keys have...
Will they make a standard ATA-133 version? This would be perfect for throwing a gigantic drive in an ancient laptop that can take a physically larger drive. Like my old Thinkpad 600x -- it could fit two of these internally for a total of 400gb!
Yes... I too am wondering about the MTBF on one of these drives. In the past I have worn out both CF cards and USB flash drives by running OS's off them. From my experiences flash memory doesn't give you warning sings of failure as a machanical hard drive does... It just fails along with your...