Posted 09/09/2009 at 11:53:50am

This is common in the retail industry and thats fine.  Great way to get a deal on windows too.  

Unfortunately half of this looks like lies.  Thats probably why so many people (not all) working for BB have no idea what they are talking about.   The companies are filling their heads with half truths and when they repeat it their credibility goes out the window. 

Posted 07/30/2009 at 12:28:07pm

I tested the Beta and RC.  its nice, different,  I even get a little better frame rates over vista.  My sound card isn't working right (but thats drivers)  But I don't see any benifit over Vista to justify $119.00.  Maybe if I had gotten in at the $50 price deal.   Plus I have 7 computers in the house.  If I did one I'd want to do all and thats not happening for this price.  This is really only a service pack.  They should give it out for free and pay us for our time to reinstall what is fixing their mistake.

Posted 07/15/2009 at 04:19:19pm

I have been very confused by my ping for some time now.

I have the fastest computer in my house.  Its not blazing but its good.  Phenom quad core 9950 black 4GB RAM,   900GB 4 disk Raid5 array , nvidia 9800GTX+ overclock ed.  on an ASUS M3N-HT deluxe Mobo.  This is connected to my router with a 3ft. ethernet cable.  and I am using vista 32bit.

Problem is I am getting 250ms pings on World of warcraft.  The other 6 computers in my house are getting below 200ms and in some cases below 100ms.   some are connecting over wifi some are using ethernet cables as long as 100ft.  all into the same router but mine is the closest to the router. They are  on various OS's from XP to win2000pro.  with as little as 1GB RAM and AMD1800 procs on some.  

Why would the best rig be getting such crappy ping times?  And yes I swapped the cable several times.

Everything else is fine I get over 100FPS on a 24" LCD with all eye candy up.