Posted 09/18/2009 at 09:58:57pm

I am intrigued by the possibillities.  Only two problems.  Why not the dual core Atom 330?  Why, for the love of the digital gods, would anyone build a new machine on Core 2 with Nehalem so cheap now?!? 

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Posted 08/31/2009 at 11:52:44pm

I play Sins of a Solar Empire on an Asus Eeepc 900HA.  It runs quite well.  I can see well in the main screen, but with the 600pixel vertical resolution, I cannot see the bottom of the menus.  Thank goodness for tab navigation and a good memory. 

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Posted 08/21/2009 at 02:00:37am

Ouch!  That hurt!  Quite apt, but painful... 

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Posted 06/16/2009 at 09:46:58am

This is quite an impressive development.  If the bitrate is decent, even stingy folks like me may go for this one! 

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Posted 05/17/2009 at 04:04:32pm

This is just the way the EU taxes successful American companies. 

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Posted 04/03/2009 at 09:30:53pm

Did anyone notice that GOG.com now has 100 games?  WITH NO DRM AT ALL!  Yes, they are older titles (I think the newest ones are about two years old), but there are some absolutely timeless classics.  $5.99 or $10.99 each is incredibly reasonable as well.  It is nice to actually OWN something that I purchase....

Steam is probably #2 on my list, if only because I am not always online with my laptop.

Between these two, I shall probably never purchase another boxed game again.

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Posted 04/03/2009 at 09:22:36pm

I sense a great deal of bitterness.....

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Posted 11/19/2008 at 12:24:59am

I have gotten twelve games from GOG now.   With their expanding library and low price, I doubt that I will ever purchase a new release again.

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Posted 10/25/2008 at 06:20:20pm

To be honest, I have stopped paying attention to new game releases.  So far, I have purchased 12 games from Good Old Games (www.gog.com) and plan to get several more.  At $6 to $10 apeice, you can't go wrong.  They have NO DRM at all.  You can burn them to disk for archive, and install them on every computer you own!  Most of them even run well on those little netbooks everyone has been going gaga over lately.

Leasing new games from the likes of EA?  Naw.  These will do me just fine. 

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Posted 10/01/2008 at 09:34:49am

I guess I am the only one this stupid, but I think I would change the P35 board for a P45.  Asus has a good one with 8 phase power for about $140 at newegg, or the MSI is about $150.  I would offset the price by going with a Radeon 4870 1GB video card, and still come out $60 ahead.  That $60 could go toward next year's purchase of another 4870 for crossfire operation (2 8x pciexpress 2.0 slots give the same bandwidth as 2 16x pciexpress 1.0 slots.)  The performance of the new 1gb cards is impressive, to say the least!

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