Sufficient, but not future proof. If they don't want it to bomb they need the most recent hardware at a decent price. By the time the box launches the price would have dropped.
Where's a hacker when you need one?
If you can have your account on multiple systems that would solve the loaning problem, but would it still kill used sales - unless you're willing to give out your account information when you sell it. If this is the way it's going to be, I expect prices to...
Valve a Walled Garden?! What moron wrote this? If you could transfer games to another account wouldn't you figure that people are buying, selling, and trading games... Duh. The money doesn't have to exchange hands/accounts via the steam client. So steam is more open and much more evolved than...
Like with all optical connections, it's just much faster. Because this technology isn't new, it's fairly cheap. Doing this in a PC will remove any slower connection between components. Right now everyone is trying to switch to fiber optics not just for its speed, but for the energy eficiency...
LOL they pretty much did reinvent the wheel. The platters are made of glass so there's verry little friction or heat. I don't understand why they had to be in contact in the first place.
Technically if they added more heads to a standard HDD and slowed down the motor, that should have the same...