My favourite micro-adjustment of the haptics is turning them off. I found the OLED thumbpad haptics to be too strong even on low. I didn’t mind it on the OG SD but on the OLED I had to turn them off.

Thanks for the detailed answer, that makes more sense! So it all comes down to the controller and how much padding it needs to make sure it has the right pixels in the right area of the screen. Depending on the speed/sensitivity of the controller, it determines how much extra padding or bandwidth is used to make the same picture. That makes sense on a CRT due to the physical limitation of an electron gun only being able to move so fast. I’m surprised that some modern day controller chips would need so much extra padding!

Since I don’t know a whole lot about timing signals, if the BOE is using less bandwidth, does it somehow have a lesser picture quality? If the quality is the same, why would the SDC panel require more bandwidth to display the exact same picture?

I keep forgetting the Deck even has gyro abilities lol. What do you guys use it for? I saw that some games would allow mouse aim, but jiggling my deck around like a madman doesn’t appeal to me. Are there other uses for it?

I was really impressed after I installed the update last night! Vibrant Deck helped but this is so much better. I only wish it had been like this from the start lol. I won’t even get to enjoy it for long before my OLED version comes in. Ah well, whoever gets my old one will get to enjoy it :P

Assuming they don’t sell out within the first 42 milliseconds, I might get mine next week. Woot!

If it’s really, really important I would probably RAR it with a larger % of recovery records, then use PAR files against it, then store it in many, many places. And every once in a while copy it to new places, checking the PAR files for checksum errors.

Heh, this particular model is well known for having a high failure rate. Mine did pretty good, considering. I bought four when they were brand new and put them into my server, running OpenSolaris so that I could use ZFS. Ran them for a couple of years, then the server ended up being stored in a metal shed in a forest for five years. Used it for a short while then built a new server. Three of the four disks had a ton of bad sectors, but ZFS came to the rescue and let me transfer everything off without losing a thing - it just took a while. I used the fourth drive as a backup drive for a few months before it started throwing errors.

I still love Seagate and have always had great luck with them, it’s just this particular model that had issues :P