Posted 11/13/2009 at 09:03:49am

Obviously the gentleman who suggested that Microsoft borrowed from Apple was lacking in common sense but not intelligence. A person can be exteremely smart, but lack common sense, or a  person can have all the common sense in the world and be really stupid. It's the person that lacks both intelligence and common sense that worries me the most.

Posted 10/28/2009 at 09:30:47am

Lets see a WD 750GB Scorpio Drive for $149.99 or the Intel 160GB X-25M for $549.00, I'll take the capacity over speed for now. When the price come down a little more then maybe I'll jump on the SSD bandwagon. Besides, if I wanted fast Speeds and great performance then I'll use my Desktop not my laptop.

Posted 08/12/2009 at 08:59:06am

5: Commadore C64 to IBM PS/2 8086

4: IBM PS/2 8086 to Custom Build Citrix 486/50 Desktop

3: Custom Build Citrix 486/50 to Custom Built P166 Desktop

2: Custom Built P166 Desktop to Custom Built AMD Athlon Slot A 800 MHz Desktop

1: Custom Built AMD Athlon Slot A 800 MHz Desktop to Custom Built 3.2 GHZ P4 with Dual Video cards with 320GB of storage (3 hard Drives)

Currently building a new desktop, won't be a "barn burner", but it will get the job done.

Posted 04/07/2009 at 11:03:08am

The C-64 was my first computer, I was crushed when they went under.

Posted 02/27/2009 at 08:24:09am

Would be nice if Ubuntu was an option. There is not a lot of leeway in customization. Hopefully Dell changes that in the near future.

Posted 01/30/2009 at 09:03:44am

Seagate is no longer the "King of the Monsters" Western Digital released it's 2TB drive this week and it is available in the US. It may not be cheap $299.99 @ NewEgg, but it's 2TB!!! Nuff Said.

Posted 01/16/2009 at 01:06:00pm

How does the Velocity Micro Raptor Z90 compare to DM 2008? will a nearly $18k MaximumPC work of art blow the doors off this rig or does the Z90 make DM2008 look like yestredays news?

Posted 11/13/2008 at 08:17:18am

Win7 isn't even a true beta yet. The version tested was a pre-beta. To make any comparisons to a full blown operating system is like comparing a chasey sitting on an assembly to a running vehicle. When Win7 makes it to a Release Canidate then start making comparison.

Posted 10/15/2008 at 07:53:57am

Windows 1x thru Windows 3.11 should not be considered real Operating Systems, they were more like an applicationlaunched from DOS. Windows NT 3.5x was the real start of the Windows OS even if it looked like Win 3.11 on steroids. To this day I feel that Win 98se and WinXP were the two best OS Distributions released by Microsoft. Perhaps by the next Service Pack release Vista will be usable.

The Generation list though should look like this:

First Generation: Windows 1.x
Second Generation: Windows 2.x, Windows 286, Windows 386
Third Generation: Windows 3.1, Windows for Workgroups 3.1 and 3.11, Windows NT 3.1
Fourth Generation: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0
Fifth Generation: Windows 2000, Windows XP
Sixth Generation: Windows Vista
Seventh Generation: Windows 7

Windows Millennium shouldn't even be considered an OS. It was more a waste of time and disk space.