Home | Forums | Article Search | Subscribe & Shop | Contact Us | Log Out Dream Hardware Email This Print This View My Personal Library Heavy Gear June 2004 • Vol.4 Issue 6 Page(s) 15 in print issue Add To My Personal Library Dream Hardware Jump to first occurrence of: [TEXAS] Couldn't we all use a little nonvolatility? If your dreams involve solid-state memory chips doing a little victory dance on a battlefield littered with smashed hard drives, get counseling. Or get a super-sized flash memory disk from M-Systems. Its space may not be infinite, but the Prelude MTS speakers are, sort of. And if your trust fund might as well be infinite, too, Mother says you should build the X-Wall. Er, right now. by Marty Sems M-Systems 90GB Fast Flash Disk 2.5-inch Ultra ATA O, for the day when we can cast aside our space-heating hard drives in favor of purely solid-state storage. Good news, good news, Flash—that day is today. The capacity is now there, thanks to ultra-spacious nonvolatile flash drives such as M-Systems' (www.m-sys.com) 90GB example shown here. The only bubble in the bathtub is its $27,725 price tag. Of course, if you have massive space/speed needs and an expense account to match, consider the 2.5TB RAM disk that Dynamic Solutions International (www.dynamicsolutions.com) just sold the guv'ment. This OEM for Texas Memory Systems says that the RAM disk was actually a cluster of 40 RamSan-320 modules, each with 64GB of capacity. Retail would have been $4.8 million, but DSI tells us that the shadowy agency got the taxpayers a discount. Black Mesa Project, anyone? "It's all in flash, Gordon." Infinity Prelude MTS Speakers Great audio doesn't have to cost you six figures. Really, just a paltry 10 grand will do. Open your ears to the sound of Infinity (www.infinity systems.com) with the Prelude MTS loudspeakers, which are aging very well in their fourth year. Ceramic-coated aluminum drivers keep every note, from the top end to the bottom registers, punchy and free of unwanted resonances. The 850W, 12-inch subwoofer also benefits from Infinity's Room Adaptive Bass Optimization System. Infinity offers two towers and a subwoofer as a $10,000 set, but it says that surround-sound lovers can add a $1,200 center unit and other speakers for 5.1 or 7.1 scenarios. But what's mere money, when Infinity awaits? 9X Media X-Wall Live, in concert, it's . . . you. Start your own Zoo TV tour with your very own X-Wall. Yeah, that's X-Wall, as in video screens that cover the entire wall—like your ego! Visual whizzes 9X Media (www.9xmedia.com) build multipanel displays in a dizzying blitz of configurations. At the top end is a $294,000 16- x 10-foot edition that incorporates 49 Wide LCD Extreme Series monitors, each 30 inches corner to corner. In a sense, these united screens are one, but they're not the same. Even better than this real expensive thing, 9X Media says that 64-screen custom versions are available, as are larger LCDs and plasmas. Remember, nothing says you're trying to throw your arms around the world like a fisheye close-up of your nose writ large. Hanging Trabants not included. Achtung! Want more information about a topic you found of interest while reading this article? Type a word or phrase that identifies the topic and click "Search" to find relevant articles from within our editorial database. Enter A Subject (key words or a phrase): ALL Words (‘digital’ AND ‘photography’) ANY Words (‘digital’ OR ‘photography’) Exact Match ('digital photography'- all words MUST appear together) Home      Copyright & Legal Information      Privacy Policy      Site Map      Contact Us Copyright © 2010 Sandhills Publishing Company U.S.A. All rights reserved.