He mentioned this on the show once. He didn't give the URL, but I think when he was talking to Elijah Wood about all of the strange web-sites dedicated to Gollum and Frodo, Conan mentioned that there is a site that is dedicated to user-submitted artwork of him fighting a bear . I meant to look it up, but I never got around…
I've done some checking around and it's an AMD SB750 chipset on the Mobo. The "controller" is a Firmware/driver-based RAID which like software RAID takes CPU cycles because it doesn't have it's own dedicated chip. No RAID for me unless I get a dedicated card. I might just use one as an external and use it for system backup.
Avoiding the large graphic tablets makes sense. Medium works (for me) well. a dedicated Pen Display or Pen tablet are the more reliable options but you could choose Android and super display.* Those S-pens use Wacom EMR-technology and have tilt support. Only purchase the Android-tablet, if you can get more usage out of it.…