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If you really want a wider view and to feel more "immersed" into the game, I suggest taking a look at the curved three-in-one seamless monitor that Alienware is working on. Something like this seems much more promising, especially because you don't have to twist your head all the way to see the sides of the screen like with this 180 degree "display"

Disclaimer: I just picked one of the first links off of google to offer decent pictures of it, I'm not affiliated with legitreviews.com.

Not necessarily. There have been devices like this for paralyzed people for years. The big innovation would be making it small and cheap enough to sell, which they say they have done.
A more detailed review might help.

Here is a shorter, and in my opinion, more informative summary. They're heating up sodium chloride salt, then using that to produce steam from water, which drives turbines. That's nice, because molten salt is fairly nasty stuff to work with.
Anything has its chemical activity rise exponentially with temperature (the Arrhenius equation) so as things get hotter, they get more chemically aggressive. Molten glass will dissolve bricks and mortar. Molten sodium and chlorine ions are even nastier -- a sodium ion is a very small object, only a little larger than hydrogen -- and can diffuse into metals, weakening them and creating leaks.

http://www.pcper.com/article.php?type=expert&aid=4 32&pid=2
http://www.hothardware.com/Articles/Intel_Core_2_E xtreme_QX6850
http://www.legitreviews.com/article/538/1/
http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/07/16/cpu_charts_ 2007/

For CPU's which consumers may actually purchase see this article http://www.legitreviews.com/article/490/1/ , the 5600+ at the same price point (with mobo) as the E6300 does better, and where it does worse it loses by 1 or 2 points (5%).

For CPU's which consumers may actually purchase see this article http://www.legitreviews.com/article/490/1/ , the 5600+ at the same price point (with mobo) as the E6300 does better, and where it does worse it loses by 1 or 2 points (5%).

I'm about to build a machine. According to Tom's Hardware, if you want to build a gaming machine these days, you have to go core 2 duo.

AMD will catch back up. Intel is a monster, much like Microsoft. Sure, they gain a step here and there, but because they are so large and slow, I'm sure AMD will catch up.

In fact, Intel Quad processors currently are two dual-core dies mashed together, where AMD is coming out with a pure Quad core solution. It wouldnt be surprising to see them gain a temporary advantage. (the back and fourth is amazing for consumers) http://www.legitreviews.com/article/426/1/ (includes a picture!)

A lot of the time, that's more expensive. E.g. WinModems were cheaper than hardware modems because the signal processing was done by Windows. But the specs were closed so it was hard to support them on Linux.

But if you're a PC manufacturer, it's not worth jeopardising your sales to people who want Windows by using a hardware modem rather than a software one, since that adds to the build cost. Microsoft being Microsoft, they will always try to create this sort of situation, where the PC manufacturers can save a few bucks at the cost of being able to run alternative OSs. And given that the vast majority of PCs run Windows, it will continue to work.

But it's always been possible to get a PC with no OS if you build it yourself. In fact, I've never bought a pre built desktop, since they tend to use cheaper chipsets and graphics cards than I want to use.

Laptops are harder of course, but there are whitebox laptops too, they're just harder to find, e.g.

http://www.legitreviews.com/article/56/1/

It neatly sidesteps the fact that high-end GPUs are massive compared to a CPU core

Intel Core Duo CPU
ATI X1800 GPU

BUT, you'd also have to squeeze all the other microchips that are on a high-end graphics card board... I don't know if you'd be able to squish all that into a CPU sized area. And if you can't, you're just changing the form factor & moving the graphics card onto a faster bus.

Anyone have a better idea how you can put quality graphics into a CPU?

Yes. They are.
Just because a small percentage of consumers are too stupid to know it, doesn't make them not overpriced.

You can build an exact copy of an Alienware laptop, minus the little alien head and flashy paint job, for $1800 LESS!
This is proven - http://www.legitreviews.com/article/228/1/

Right now the keyboard is still technically a prototype and the cost is hovering around US $200 to produce this keyboard. The good news is that the keyboard is slated to go into mass production next year and launched in the Summer of 2006, which should allow the price of the "new" technology go down.

Here's an actual review:
[H]ard|OCP,

and here's a better picture:
Legit Reviews

In Intel's long tradition of pushing a new technology before it actually surpassed the previous generation (P2, P4, P4-Prescott) DDR2 is, at best, on par with systems already in place.

If you look at some benchmarks of DDR2 performance, you have to wonder why anyone would even consider buying it right now.

"Expect DDR2 memory at 533MHz to be comparable to DDR1 at 400MHz, but don't expect to see any "noticeable" memory bandwidth performance gains till DDR2 667 and above with low timings!"

On an open test bench, at room temperature, a Prescott core P4 runs at least 70 degrees C under load using the Intel-bundled heatsink/fan.

Ati's Terry Makedon says: "Something big is coming for CATALYST in the next 2-3 months. It will take graphic drivers to a brand new level, and of course will be another ATI first. It will be interesting to see how long before other companies will copy the concept after we launch it."

Hmmm... just in time for PCI Express and it's not something specifc to Ati's hardware.

"Now what am I supposed to cook my eggs on????"

Might I suggest this?

Tech-Report Prescott Review
accelenation Prescott Review
Ace's Hardware Prescott Review
Gamers Depot Prescott Review
HardTecs4U
Hexus
K-Hardware Prescott Review,
Legit Reviews Prescott Review
LostCircuits
MBReview Prescott Review
VR-Zone
X-bit labs Prescott Review
XtremeSystems Prescott Review
Extreme-tech Prescott Review

I'm not vouching for them, but Legit Reviews bought retail memory for a recent review. I also liked Anand's recent test of OCZ memory, comparing pre-production and retail parts.

I ran across this http://www.legitreviews.com site recently and was quite impressed with their reviews and *scanned* invoices from vendors. http://www.legitreviews.com/Reviews/ddr500_1.shtml I was not very suprised to find the newest issue of a major PC Mag does almost the same review with completely opposite results. We definately need more review sources we can trust.

I ran across this http://www.legitreviews.com site recently and was quite impressed with their reviews and *scanned* invoices from vendors. http://www.legitreviews.com/Reviews/ddr500_1.shtml I was not very suprised to find the newest issue of a major PC Mag does almost the same review with completely opposite results. We definately need more review sources we can trust.