Samsung SpinPoint M6 500GB laptop drive finally on sale... in France
By Nilay Patel 
posted May 6th 2008 10:54PM
posted May 6th 2008 10:54PM
[Thanks, onceuponamac]
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oh, come on!!
my face
oh my god DAMN YOU RG man!
i really should've learned to NEVER read engadget while i'm drinking... once again my screen and keyboard is covered with sprayed coffee
That's better than what his face is sprayed with.
wtf are they serious? what the heck is in France anyway? really...
The French and cheeses.
effiel tower, arch de triumph, louvre, goyard, daft punk, ed banger records, a lot of cool stuff
daft punk
Did anyone actually hit the read link? I don't speak french but, clearly, they say it has 10 - 15 days delivery time.
10 - 15 days? You know what that means on the internet? It means they don't have it. They won't have it for another 2 weeks. And depending on how trustworthy they are, they might not even have a clue as to when they will get it. I never order from these sites because, invariably, there will be further delivery delays.
This is just a scam.
NoOOoOOOOoooOoOOo!
*starts taking down french fries sign.......again.
*freedom fries
Yeah,this doesn't help us at all.
It's more like rubbing it in our faces by the fact that we can't actually get it.
Whoever made that suggestion for a Engadget Import site was thinking ahead of his time cause if I wanted to be depressed,I could just go there and knowingly get disappointment.Unlike how they do it now,where it pops up in our faces and gives our day a rather low point.
Oh well,at least the gunmetal ps3 is coming to US of A.That makes my day a little better.
Wow, you're easily depressed. And I suppose seeing a dog take a bathroom break on your front lawn makes you burst into tears?
now they can store all the information they need on cheese, wine, lovemaking, disco, and techtonik
... socially accepted public nudity, legal use of soft drugs, blatantly pornographic TV commercials in prime time, complete degradation of family values...
What? What's wrong? :|
Wait, gad get, were you seriously listing those as negatives?
*Rolling eyes.*
I already have 500gb drive laptop in my MacBook Pro a month ago, and i order it from OWC (yes, they are in the state!!), and it was cheaper too! ($280, and its Toshiba, its quite, and decent speed)!!!
Come on engadget! this is nothing new, slow day, huh?
But isn't the M6 only 9.5mm? Which means it can go in the Macbook, not just the Pro.
I think the one you are talking about is the 12.5 mm drive, that can only fit in the 17" MBP. This is a standard 9.5 mm height that can fit in the 15" MBP and the MacBook.
ok, that make sense. this is the smaller size drive. oops, my bad! lol
It's okay man... In the words of Hannah Montana...
"Everyone makes mistakes..."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbaxv69OpF4
"finally on sale... in France"
wat.
Merde!
LOL
lıɐɟ
What is this then : http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=10008355 ?
If you read your own link it says "Notify me"! They don't actually *have* it.
if you're desperate (or French), i will stick to french ;-)
i thought they were the same thing...
Wonder if it will fit in the PS3
I believe it would fit, form factor is 2.5 ;)
This is soooo going in my PS3!
wow...im surprised nobody made a racist french joke yet...
French isn't a race.
livraision 10 à 15 jours???
It will take some time to deliver, so don't worry.
Cheers from Switzerland
Seriously....I want to know.... who is really going to put a 500 GB drive in a laptop ? Certainly not at that price point. I can understand having an external 500GB, that would make sense; it lends itself to being pushed from the "home" / fixed desktop, to the lappie, to the media centre pc.
I can only assume that a possible use would be to store movies and music, but again...an external is gonna be better for this. Using a laptop as an HTPC doesn't seem to make a lot of sense on a dollar basis. Better now to splash out on a WD Caviar 640 + AMD 780 board + AMD 4350e + case = $350, and you have another machine...
I dunno....
wot? i am gonna get one. either this one or the new 7200 / 320GB hitachi.
asking why would you want more storage in your laptop is like asking... why would you want to breathe air, why would you want to eat food why would you want to make sweet love to your girlfriend... it's not a question you ask. especially not on engadget.
oops forgot the ram...
+2GB ram + linux = $380
i still dunno
What about peripherals? Especially a nice monitor if you deal with photo/video editing. That will bump up your $350 machine to quite a bit more... Oh, and what about dual or even triple booting? Linux can be very lean, but Windows XP or (god forbid) Vista with a bunch of games installed isn't. That right there is a good reason for more internal space.
Some people want just one computer - a portable desktop replacement - and they want everything on it for maximum portability. Not very hard to understand IMHO. And given how remarkably cheap magnetic storage is, I will be upgrading to at *least* a 320 GB internal soon almost without blinking. I imagine that within 1 year the 500 GB drives will be discounted enough for me to consider as well.
Ehhh...I havent had much luck with Samsung drives...Maybe they have gotten better but I had four die on me in a NAS box (all sata's), their replacement support isnt that bad, but the drives I got back went bad too. Decided to grab a couple WD's instead and havent had a problem....maybe just my luck!
Now Samsung, after you are done with the frenchies, go take it somewhere where there are alot of people who are craving for that. cough*USA*cough.
And after that, do the 1TB next. :)
Touché mes ami?
Hank Scorpio: By the way, Homer. What's your least favourite country, Italy or France?
Homer: France.
Hank Scorpio: Heh-heh. Nobody ever says Italy.
I am French and I live in America. I don't really care about that hard drive or what some Americans think about us. However, I expect the Endgadget writers to stick to their subject matter instead of antagonizing their readers. Endgadget is read and appreciated worldwide by non-Americans. Peace.
What are you talking about?
" I expect the Endgadget writers to stick to their subject matter instead of antagonizing their readers."
The writer of this didn't antagonize the French, the people who commented on this news did.
I see your point but when I read : "...but if you're desperate (or French)..." - that's a poor attempt to be sarcastic and that's what - in my opinion - sparked the whole French bashing. It doesn't take much.
The original Engadget article wasn't French bashing. By "if you're desperate (or French)", they didn't imply the two were the same. They simply meant you can the get the drive 1) through convoluted means if you're really desperate to get it (since it's now on sale somewhere in the world) or 2) easily if you live in France where it's now being sold.