Posted 11/21/2009 at 08:19:10am

Greedy.

Posted 10/27/2009 at 09:45:57am

I've been using 2GB ram from the start (2008). So what's new?

Posted 10/02/2009 at 07:29:19am

@Techjunkie: I agree with your comments.

Posted 10/01/2009 at 12:18:24am

...If the second processor can be switch on and off, on the fly.

Posted 08/15/2009 at 08:09:44am

As prices of laptops and netbooks keeps going down, it will soon be senseless to buy desktops for personal use. 

I think the desktop will eventually be relegated to institutions. School labs, libraries, offices, etc.

Posted 07/24/2009 at 02:21:04pm

I'd say Acer is a much safer bet.

For a mere $1 increase in price, you get a good brand (although not as solid as Asus) plus Windows Vista.

Yes, Vista. This controversial OS is much stable now, and much more robust than XP. Not to mention leaps and bounds above Lindows, Linspire, Linux, and all the other Lin-OSes.

Compaq is really a shaky brand. Although under HP now, the quality is still questionable.

Posted 07/15/2009 at 11:03:16am

This is the new "forced invasion of privacy" strategy. Thinly vailed.

You got me at hello. I already knew this sly tactic the moment i read thru the first two words on the title.  The whole article did try to provide a nice tactical diversion. But in the end,  it still has to spit it out in broad daylight.

I see 2 likely scenarios:

1. A percentage of consumer (big or small? i don't know) will actively boycott this game.

2. Another percentage of consumer won't be able to play this game due to lack of internet connection, sluggish connection, or bad connections that keeps on cutting off. Which will unintentionally result into passive boycott of this game.

This is a very bad move on EA.

Posted 07/08/2009 at 05:57:56am

For those who thought IE8 dropped some of the useful features in IE7, like the automatically reopening of previous webpages.... hit the Tools menu, and click on....

Posted 07/02/2009 at 10:50:44am

"No one is going to play World of Warcraft on one of these thin machines"

 I've been playing Zero Hour on my Asus N10J Netbook for some months now. Set  to the highest video details in the game, it runs smoothly. No lag whatsoever. Even when battling 3 brutal-team opponents simultenously. It's like playing the game on a regular fulltime core2 duo machine. (I tried 4 brutal-team opponents too, still no lag, but my chances to win against 4 is rather slim.)

Atom 1.6ghz, 2gb ram, nvidia 256mb discrete, wifi-n, vista home premium 32-bit.

No problem.

I just love this tiny machine.

Posted 05/27/2009 at 02:11:23pm

"This service pack includes all the updates that have been delivered SINCE Service Pack 1"