Damn right! Why would you want to pay MS $100 or more, for a drive thats $25 or less -on eBay?  Especially if you happen to already have a bricked or broken console --with a good drive-- on hand. I ...

This isn't surprising at all to me, from recent experience(s) I've had with the xbox360 & xboxlive.  360 titles seem to go to "abandonware" 5-10x faster.It's a terrible shame that Publ ...

Gee ---Who would'n thunk it?   A program that runs automatically, eats my bandwidth, running video or slideshows, for which I cannot save My preferred ttings  ---because they dump them, every time ...

I guess someone else decided there was a problem with "Intel's Insides..." It's not THAT funny, but I think that Intel & (even more so) Microsoft, are so dominant that they need to hold even more c ...

I'm still holding onto my dream of a Vector computer system (with x86 or x64 compatibility mode?) It would be wicked cool, especially if you could have an nVidia board and use ATI or other brand ca ...

I still love/use my GDX 5.1's, in spite of MPC's review of them... I love that I have one SPDIF, instead of 6 wires going into the back of my PC (and my xbox360)... but the nest of wires coming out ...

Newspaper columnists should have the same kind/quality of rights as movie or music makers... I'm not a fan of blogs. I'm able to write long, meandering statement & opinions --myself, I'm not int ...

I didn't think there'd be any Pro texting comments... (live & learn, I guess.) We shouldn't need a Law, to require that any driver pay attention to what their moving vehicle is doing. I'm in fav ...

The GS gives "computer repair" a bad name. I can't figure out if they just radically over-charge, prefer to sell people a new machine, have massive insurance, or their estimates are based on the dire ...

I think Google needs to take the Bing ADs to heart, give us a logic tree to narrow "matches" down; and not tell me there are 500k matches ---only to stop me viewing more than 15-18 pages of them. M ...

1. Since the price of "factory repair," on notebooks has been sky-high for a long time, a lot of independent repair people won't crack open a notebook ---or only if it's to replace the LCD or keyb ...

If they can't sell these to college kids, I don't see how they expect to market these... Back in the Day, I would have loved to be able to get away from the whole: $400 worth of books every semeste ...

I guess a lot of people here would say I qualify as an AMD/ATI fanboy... If AMD makes a CPU of comparable Wattage, and the price/perfomance ratio is also comparable to Intel ---I go with AMD, becau ...

It's a shame that McAfee, Symantec, and the others can't just copyright the viruses, and use the DMCA to punish people who actively use viruses for malicious purposes. Of course ---if they did try ...

Is it the USPS, or Netflix that has radically changed their logo --and I missed it? Or ---is this the special uniform they wear, when delivering (*gasp*) Porn?? Too bad he didn't try to copy, shar ...

This is Hilarious!!! I can't figure out why anyone would bother. If I had this kind of cash to throw at my console, I'd just do the PS3. ---otherwise I'd just be keeping the 360 for Exclusive tit ...

How Awesome would it be, if AMD threw a couple of GPU-like pre-processors onto the CPU die, instead of extra cores? It would force some of us to upgrade the cpu/motherboard more often, but that's ...

Awesome... so, in the future, a "standard performance gaming" config of graphics cards won't be $600-1500, right?? I'll believe it, when I see it. I'll enjoy it, if/when it happens, and be a l ...

I'm a little surprised to not even see a link to the full list. Not finding anything like it, in my Google searches... I have a theory that there's only any real competition in broadband, where th ...

I'm 36, introverted, a gamer (not casual), and single... [* Hello, ladies! *] I also just lost about 50 pounds on the "Unemployed-so-cannot-afford-processed-convenience-foods-plus-I'm-not-that-good ...

This really interests me, because a fair number of the desktops used for "office work," seem to be el-cheapo models that are only marginally more upgradeable than a laptop. So, I wonder how much be ...

I don't like all the extra BS -minus added value, that you get with mp3, over the CD. I started using Vorbis, when Napster hit the Fan... I don't want anyone else choosing my format, my bitrate, or ...

My dad found a solution to SPAM... He blocked ALL e-mails from Yahoo hotmail accounts. Of course, one of my brothers and myself use Yahoo hotmail for our primary addresses. (Another brother uses ...

I like the '98 Godzilla... I have not seen this movie, or even Borat. I'm not into Twitter. But I just love the idea that Twitter, IM, even email could kill a movie's sales. I'll never for ...

As I tried to suggest, this was the complaint 15 years ago... MS not giving competitors notice of changes in the way the OS interacted with a browser [or whatever]. MS provides a new "patch" that c ...