ok, i see what's going on. and, i hope this repeats itself, actually, as i'll get a lot of good deals, that way.

did you catch that my phone was $65? it's waterproof, too. ip67. 2 gb ram. quadcore is near the bottom end, but it'll be fine for me, i'm sure. but, it had some bad reviews, so it's not selling. and, people seem to have picked up the idea that it's a kids phone because it's shock resistant. i hope they feel really grown up when they replace their galaxy because they've dropped it in the pool - or perhaps because their kid has dropped it in the pool. but, the point is that it's a status thing. this is a highly functional, low status device. score. i mean, who said all the contradictions in capitalism were at the benefit of capital? is this even some crude approximation of superproduction?

seagate got some bad press recently due to higher failure rates in a kind of a crock study (they were using refurbished drives that they bought because they were cheap and were consequently expecting a higher failure rate...), so the price has fallen. again: score.

these are actually sshds. i was looking at the ssds, and the price just isn't there, yet, for what i'm doing with these particular machines. i may get one for the new machine. but, i don't see any use in putting an ssd drive in either of these machines; one is for editing, and the other is going to eventually be a guitar effects processor, but is also going to work as a backup.

the sshds happen to be the cheapest thing in front of me. so, i'll let you know how they work. i don't game. but, i want to figure out the exact specs before i comment further.