Posted 08/05/2008 at 01:23:44pm

I have been running Vista Ultimate SP1 x64 on my desktop and Vista Business SP1 x64 on my media server  since April and haven't had problems with either.  No crashes.  No burns.  No app instability (though in fairness, I haven't tried running anything more than 7 years old).

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Posted 08/01/2008 at 03:11:11pm

Let's not forget that many notebooks out there today use Intel's Centrino platform, and a lot of NVidia's and AMD's video chipsets consume more battery power than Intel's admittedly weak (by comparison, anyway) video chipsets.

Many businesses don't care about graphics processing abilities for their mobile travellars.  They care about lower cost and longer battery life. 

"I make no promises, only sarcastic remarks."

Posted 07/23/2008 at 04:21:10pm

Most people do not remember that WindowsXP had issues, too, many of which resolved with its first service pack.

I use Vista Ultimate x64 now almost exclusively, and I love it.  I found that if you throw 8GB or RAM at it, Vista performs very, very well.

And just to be clear, 8GB of DDR2 RAM is not expensive anymore. 

"I make no promises, only sarcastic remarks."

Posted 07/22/2008 at 07:27:04pm

I have a PS3, and I enjoy playing games on it almost as much as my PC.  That being said, the above article is the.  Lamest.  Article.  Ever.

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Posted 07/21/2008 at 06:06:23pm

I'm guessing solid states in RAID 0 or RAID 5, unless MaximumPC decided to remove the Velociraptors from the heatsink-like trays and RAIDed them in custom cooling trays (because of the whole not-standard placed connectors thing). 

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Posted 07/21/2008 at 04:35:34pm

They are the Samsung 103uj's.  You can tell if you zoom in.  The question, though, is what will they use for their OS RAID array (assuming, of course, that these drives are going to be a RAID 5 array for the storage volume)? 

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Posted 07/11/2008 at 12:30:49pm

Dang!  dcrail beat me out by ten seconds.

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Posted 07/11/2008 at 12:29:54pm

Unfortunately, no, though I was named after his son Nathan (he was born about a year earlier than I). :-)

Dorothy is a distant 3rd cousing twice removed somthing or other, though I doubt she knows that. 

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Posted 07/11/2008 at 12:06:31pm

The Tie Fighter link is the same as the R2-D2 link.  Can you repost it?

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Posted 06/16/2008 at 03:26:54pm

I use Vista Ultimate x64, and I love it! Using 8GB of RAM (not that expensive these days) makes everything better!