Posted 11/10/2009 at 12:12:04pm

hahaha oh you funny man you.  so he has macs at home, all that means is he has moolah to burn and dosent want to understand computers. also does any one else see the irony in the 'best technology' comment? when the mac pro comes oem with the geforce 120 which is the same thing as a 8600gt($60)? and the laptops come with 2ghz core2duo's instead of quad cores??? just throwin that out there

Posted 10/26/2009 at 10:22:44pm

ya i dropped a 2GB DIMM into my netbook about a week after i got it, and reformatted it to dual boot xp and ubuntu.  What would be really nice is if they redesigned the layout of the motherboard in the netbooks to allow a second RAM DIMM so we can take advantage of the dual channel ability of DDR2.

Posted 10/14/2009 at 10:09:44pm

I can not see anyone seriously taking a netbook as a primary computer even if they do not need the horsepower, a nettop is a far better option just for the ease of use of normal size screen and keyboard.  i use my netbook (hp mini 1000) almost daily and while it is fantastic for while i am on campus it lacks the horsepower to smoothly stream video or flash animation on a website.  Granted it is a first generation and does what i demand of it i can not see anyone using one for more than a companion to a more powerfull platform.

Posted 09/02/2009 at 05:19:39pm

..so IE6 and IE7 are losing shares to ff ... id still think its kind of incredible that old rollouts are still holding thier own against ff. other than being a part of the whole, why does it matter since MS is hell bent on pushing IE8.

Posted 08/28/2009 at 11:53:30am

*sigh* when are people going to learn you cant have both ends of the spectrum..least not yet, you cant have a fuel sipping car and go 0-60 in 3 seconds. Just as you cant have low power usage and compute the world. i like the gpgpu idea however while the watt per packet of data my be a huge leap, the total wattage may increase if a symilar physical space is used as the present super computer.  also most of the energy goes to cooling not the actual processing.

Posted 08/28/2009 at 07:47:36am

i LOL'd thats one intense case!

Posted 08/24/2009 at 11:43:56am

other than the possibility of this being short term, as another poster stated i also have no ill feelings tward this. with that kind of money these CEOs could live very comfortably off the interest gained through their savings accounts.  ignoring the 'evil coporprate america' aspect they earned their salleries.  way more than sports stars.

on a side note this may save them money, atleast looking at dirrect income theyre making pennies/hr thats third world income..meaning very low to no taxes.

Posted 08/09/2009 at 08:13:25pm

Wow talk about missing the point.  Ok so here is the point i was trying to make, its not the total amount of space, i see truely massive storage quantities being a normal for a home user in the near future. was i was saying is drives fail we all know that and alot of times without warning.  it is better to lose 250-300gb instead of a TB or more in a drive failure. i think its just investing too much in one place.

Posted 08/08/2009 at 11:53:25pm

im sorry but i really dont see the point of these really high storage hdds...ya ok you can download the internet but say one fails or you need to virus scan or defrag the sucker...its going to take lifetimes. and on top of that how about redundancy...if you have even a TB drive and it dies..everything is gone..while if you have many smaller drives say 250-320gb..thats pleanty of space but if one does you only lose 250gb not EVERYTHING!

Posted 08/08/2009 at 12:52:44am

120mms are now fairly standard in consumer cases they may start to be phased out by even larger fans.  its hard to find a 80mm on a modern consumer case

80mm are still the standard for 4u server cases