PLease let me win this... I need a HDTV to go w/ all my HD devices!

you are correct, the whole volatile flash failure problem was solved a couple years ago. It's no longer valid.

*60MB/s, but the fact remains, it's still not the bottle neck problem here, it's the dang HDDs.

ok what now? 99% of USB2.0 pipes can't even fill themselves. If Intel is desperate to reduce bottlenecks, they need to work on HDD R/W. Even 2 RAID 0 SSD drives would (theoretically) only be able to sustain 120MB/s read and 80MB/s write.

http://www.samsung.com/eu/Products/Semiconductor/products/ssd.asp

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I'm gonna be late to work today trying to catch up with engadget articles!

I've been an AMD fanboy for years, but Intel is showing it's prowess right now. If only I had the funds, I would build up a beast of a machine with one of these bad boys and begin crunching a 200GB rainbow table...

Alas, I must pay taxes.

What you guys are missing here is that you can't just fly with any engine. As previously stated, the Renesis engine is lightweight and spacialy conservative. What some of you have ignored is that when you get in the air, your propellers depend more on speed than power. Since it is generally a BAD IDEA to have a gear box on an airplane propeller, you need an engine that can spin it fast enough to achieve flying speeds, and hard enough to help prevent stalling. The Renesis easily cruises at 9k RPM, and with come computer mods (removal) can hit 11k.

No matter what it's power curve or road driving characteristics are, when those wheels come off the ground, you need that propeller spinning as fast as possible. Airplanes have 1 speed gear boxes, all acceleration comes from increasing engine RPMs.

The bad apex seal is an old RX7 issue, fixed in the RX8.

I guarantee you can not find a better engine for this application considering cost, size, weight, power, and RPMs.