Posted 06/18/2009 at 06:12:53pm

I pretty much always look at laptop battery test results as a theoretical maximum.  It probably would be better to do the tests using the machine as the average user would on a typical day. 

The thing is, how often are laptops ACTUALLY used in a place that doesn't have access to a power outlet?  My MBP is almost never on battery power, either plugged in at home on my desk, or plugged in a work on my desk.  I guess people who travel a lot might use batteries more, but you can get airline power adapters now, most airports have places to plug in (if you're quick and get a spot by them!)  I don't go to starbucks or other coffee shops, so I'm not sure about the availability of power outlets there.

Posted 06/16/2009 at 06:36:40pm

how many times have we heard this?  Seems like once a year we hear that Moore's law will end when X happens, and then it happens and they're like "oh, well we found a way to get around that, now Moore's law will not apply when Y happens..."

Posted 06/05/2009 at 06:20:32pm

20" monitors usually are 1600x1200, so you'd be looking at more like 4800x1200 with that setup you described

Posted 05/20/2009 at 04:08:28pm

I had one of the Kenwood 72X drives.  I thought it was great, never had any problems with it and it did seem to read disks pretty fast.  I guess I got lucky and got a good one.

Posted 05/18/2009 at 06:52:49pm

the 9700 Pro was quite possibly the best video card ATI ever made.  That thing was scary powerful for its time

Posted 05/03/2009 at 12:46:50am

AOL is still around?

Posted 04/30/2009 at 07:06:52pm

nah, Win7 is Vista SP3!

Posted 04/30/2009 at 07:00:05pm

yep, it's up on Technet, just uploaded today.  It's a 1.3GB download, though.  holy crap!  Granted that download is for x86, x64 and i64 for both Vista and Server 2008

Posted 04/29/2009 at 12:37:40am

I think you are not quite understanding how it works.  It's not that there's no demand, just about anyone who games seriously or does torrenting will tell you that upstream is just as important as downstream.  The reason upstreams are so slow is most likely to keep people from running web server farms from their homes.  You have to remember that if your upstream gets saturated (which is likely when they only give us 1.5-2 mbps) your downstream speed will go completely to shit.  I used to have a roommate that would torrent like crazy on the wireless and I'd be trying to play WoW and my pings would go from about 100ms to over 1000ms. just cuz the upstream was saturated from bittorrent.

Posted 04/29/2009 at 12:34:37am

it does get very irritating when you read that TWC pulled in about $4 billion last year from their internet service, but only spent $146 million on upkeep/upgrading the infrastructure.