AnandTech's article compares X25-M G1 performance with G2... and I think it's favourable (and favourable compared to my perceptively fast OCZ Vertex.

http://anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3631&p=11

According to Intel, they don't mention TRIM specifically but they claim:

This firmware update tool provides the latest firmware for the following Intel SSDs in all capacities:
- Intel® X25-M/X18-M SATA SSD on 50nm (black case) - updates to FW version 8820
- Intel® X25-E SATA SSD on 50nm (black case) - updates to FW version 8850
- Intel® X25-M/X18-M SATA SSD on 34nm (silver case) - updates to FW version 02HA

This firmware will enable your SSD to deliver the best performance in your PC. Use this update tool to get the latest production firmware.

I think the G1 is the 50nm / black case, and the G2 is the 34nm / silver case... no?

Wow that is nice. I can even read the text in PORTRAIT mode (well, barely, but still!) Thanks for those screen grabs!

I picked up an 80 Gig G1 for pretty cheap and expect that Intel will have this firmware fixed in no time... of course, what they need to fix urgently is unbricking the drives that are bricked... getting the speed-boost firmware into the hands of users is secondary to fixing the problems caused by the firmware in the first place: if these poor souls can at least get their drives back to "functional" by restoring the old firmware for now, that would be OK, I guess... but let's fix those bricked drives PRONTO!

Could someone with a nice digital camera and a Droid do us all a favour: take a photo of the screen and scale it to the exact number of pixels that the screen is: 854 x 480. Computer displays have larger physical pixels than the phone does, but that will give us who can't get a Droid for one reason or another a nice idea of really how nice the display is!

Rumour has it that Verizon pressured RIM to get the original Storm out as soon as possible, in time for Christmas sales: Storm development staff were not pleased to have to ship it early... and now Verizon isn't going to support the launch of the Storm 2? Sounds like Verizon dicked RIM around but good... so here's hoping that RIM finds greener pastures with other networks.

Bell and Telus will have to work fast to establish the roaming agreements with foreign carriers, or it's gonna be robbers, robbers, robbers.

I don't buy the population density crap as a justification for the high mobile prices in canada... have you looked at the coverage maps? they cover only the most populated areas... now, if they were erecting towers to blanket the ENTIRE CANADIAN WILDERNESS so you could get a signal in the HINTERLANDS, then yeah, you could say that they have to justify that extra coverage... but what I believe happens is this: they put competitive technology in the densely populated areas, and move the "obsolete" technology to the outlying areas to add inferior coverage to the fringes... but even that isn't done for the sake of charity: it's done because they are HUGELY PROFITABLE.

Don't be quick to give Canadian mobile operators any benefit of the doubt on why the prices are high: it's because there isn't enough competition, plain and simple.

THIS is where my boycott of Palm really sucks: the Pre looks like a really sweet device, but the way Palm dicked me around in 2002 made me swear never to buy another Palm device, and now I'm paying for it... well, until the BlackBerry Storm 2 comes out... and Canada gets some decent GSM competition...

this is the same company that 'allows' it's reps to say things like "for 120Hz TV, you need a better HDMI Cable".

Who cares what the source is? If you shop at Best Buy, be prepared to be lied to. The management at Best Buy does little to stop their staff from saying whatever they want to get the sale.

The next time it happens, call the manager over, ask the sales rep to repeat the 'lie' they just told you in front of the manager, and see if the manager objects or corrects the rep.