yes but only if it was compatible with cameras that accept CF cards. The line "not compact flash compatible" in the description makes me doubt the usefulness. I'm open to the possibility that is wrong and it's got 2 modes. Use it as a CF card with CF compatible devices and then an ability to attach to a SATA port where available for super fast xfers. There is a USB memory stick that does this very thing. It's USB on one end and eSATA on the other.

if it really looked like a CF card, it would probably work in a CF card reader and not have a SATA interface.

Those came out about 8 years ago. Originally offered by IBM (T221) and later rebadged as a ViewSonic. It was a 22" diagonal screen with a resolution of 3824x2400. It required 4 DVI channels due to the DVI bandwidth limits but the picture sure was nice. With a price of near $20k, demand was low. It was discontinued in 2005.

What I have to wonder about Toshiba's announcement is if they plan on applying their HDx4 resolution to anything other than PC use since content is just now evolving to 1080p. Sure, it would be nice to open a large raw image in photoshop without having to scale down or scroll but I suspect watching a 1080p picture on that screen would look as good as SD looks on my 1080p screen. To the point, can people please pick a standard resolution and stick with it for at least 1/2 of expected life cycle of a brand new TV?

When will you guys get it? Macs are not more expensive because the HW is special. Macs are more expsensive because the OS is better and the Mac EULA forces any user that desires this OS to pay Apple whatever they dictate. That said, I'm a non believer as well. I prefer enterprise ready UNIX where quality counts and prefer the price structure of a PC for non business critical applications (eg, my personal usage). My $1k PC would kill a $5000 Mac so I can live with Vista. It's actually not that buggy at this point and is more feature rich than XP.

For anyone truly committed to keeping this dead horse beaten, take a look at an interesting book called "Buyology". The us-against-them mentality that Apple fosters is at least 1/2 of the basis for the price difference. Simply dropping the argument and buying on value rather than emotion would ultimately lead toward properly priced Macs.

Just because it has a high pixel count doesn't make it right for studio work. People that shoot for magazines use medium format cameras and solve the resolution problem without creating a pixel density problem.

Yes, the D3 is still available but this shows the general trend toward noisy overly resolved sensors. The "end of days" is nigh unless this useless march toward pixel count superiority abates.

You guys are sooo effing gullible. There is a big difference between a legitimate Leica and some Panasonic POS with point and shoot quality Leica glass. You can see the reviews on dpreview and none of these cameras perform as well as the compact Canons that cost much less. Besides, if you think you get good image quality out of a point and shoot of any variety, you are telling the world more about yourself than about your camera.

What the heck is wrong with you? This is exactly what should be happening. Santa Monica currently has a 100% solar powered garage (venting & lighting before you ask) that also has charge-up stations for electric vehicles. And get this, b/c the charging is produced by solar power, it's offered for free. So drivers that buy electric can go completely off the grid rather than just moving the pollution from the tailpipe to the power plant.

Sure, tax money probably paid for the garage. But the money had to come from somewhere and addressing climate change isn't going to be free.

@BidD145: public transportation is and always will be underutilized. The people that don't take the trains make that choice b/c the trains are typically inconvenient, dirty and malodorous. Giving those people a real incentive to quit belching CO2 is a wonderful idea.

Little side note: Our public train system (the BART) is always inconvenient, dirty and malodorous. But the other reason to not take the BART is lack of parking, not lack of capacity. The suburban stations' lots fill up by 7ish. The urban stations don't even have parking. Oh, and you're not allowed to enter or leave an urban station with a bike during the commute hours. Okay, can't drive to the train. Can't ride my bike to the train. You know what? I didn't really want to sit on that pee stained seat today next to the hobo anyway. Guess I'll drive.

Even at 1 megapixel, I bet the sensor outperforms the lense. Megapixels are like shiny keys. The more a camera has, the more likely a consumer is to giggle and drool mindlessly.

I'm just sayin...

I had a previous (but recent) Storcenter and it was a seriously flawed product. The 1TB model (2 500GB drives) had these flaws:

(I wanted to run in mirrored mode)
1) If a drive failed, the light would stay green (no notification or disk error)
2) When the drive failed, rather than mark one disk as good and one as failed, it would simply convert the RAID from mirrored to spanned.
3) So when you replaced the failed drive, you couldn't even remirror the normal way (a bit by bit copy from good to new disk). The only method was change the existing disk back to mirrored which would reformat it and when done, both drives would be ready to go in mirrored mode but would both be empty.
4) When I found out, I wanted to return the drives but I had copied sensitive financial data onto them. And where there is software which can truly wipe a disk (deleting files doesn't really remove the data), that software is all incompatible with these drives. These drives could not be direct attached and both Iomega support and the various disk wiping software companies I spoke with all said this was a limitation and could not be done.

In the end, I opened the case, removed the drives and installed them internally in my PC. So now I have 2 500 GB drives that I paid roughly $350 for and now I'm still left needing to go buy some decent backup software.

That's rich on the same day MS was reported to have begun working on a Time Machine-like product. That's great because so far, the world only has a working/functional/reliable version. What we really need with our backup solutions is a series of bugs and security holes.

Honestly, "consumer quality" is an oxymoron in computing but please, let's keep arguing over which architecture sucks least/most. It's a riveting conversation.