no other OS comes with antivirus. all the other comments around here explain why it would be better for us if MS stayed out of the anti-virus business.
why not sell this idea to the general public? All I want is a laptop that is compact and can get online and do word processing and genral apps at a decent speed. But I don't want to spend $600 just to get a basic laptop. Why not sell the general public a version of this for $200 as an basic laptop or one for K-12 students (a starter laptop of sorts).
I'm sure today's $100-200 technology can beat my Pentium II Compaq Armada 7400. I just want a laptop that can word process like a champ, and my PII won't cut it!
napster to compete with iTunes? MSN to compete with iTunes? Rhapsody to compete with iTunes?
Yeah, okay, they do, but iTunes won't be dethroned UNTIL the iPod is. Google may come the closest, but I doubt it. Just cause it says "Google" on it doesn't mean it will automatically become the most popular.
wait! if google.cn is searching.cn domains, then it's CHINA's filtering, not Gogole's!
if there are no pictures of what really happened at tiennamen square on chinese web sites, and google cn, for the same reason google.com only searches english sites by default, is only searching chinese language sites, then it's not google's fault that the chinese are getting a different internet than the rest of the world.
Like I said, I guess to reply to everyone who replied to me, I am no scientist, again, but I do like some of the things that were pointed out here.
I agree with whoever said it, believing in either creationism or evolution requires a leap of faith, because neither has been solidified to even be a theory that in the scientific world has been accepted as fact. I know that scientists aren't about prooving things so much as finding theories and testing them, but some theories just become accepted as fact.
The leap of faith required for ID is "I have enough faith in my creator and therefore I believe in ID"
The leap of faith required for evolution is something like "I have enough faith that either there is no creator or my creator didn't directly make humans specifically to conclude that evolution is right."
You can't prove where we came from, because it's part of religion. Half of religion is where we came from, and half is where we think we're going. Atheism could almost be a religion, because it could say "We came from predecessing animals and when we die we turn back to carbon and that's that." It's just like another religion, predicting what happens to us when we die, and what happened when we were born.
I'm a Christian, and I have enough faith in God that I think that ID is closer to the truth. Some people assume that for that reason I am less intellectual or whatever. That was the point I was trying to make.
Because of how Atheism in itself is almost a religion, in that it is about where we came from and where we will go when we die, why should evolution be taught in schools? Why should ID be taught in schools? They shouldn't! Schools shouldn't teach where we came from! We don't know. Just the same as schools don't teach where we go when we die. Schools shouldn't teach atheism, they should teach what we know. They should teach our kids how to get jobs, how to learn in college, how to live, and how to eat right. Not crap that the human race is still debating. They shouldn't teach creation at all in Biology, they should say, "you know what, there are too many theories, we don't really know how organisms first were made on this earth." School systems seem to either pick ID or evolution. I say no, I say pick neither. My kids can learn about where they came from themselves, and if they decide to be Christian they can see what the Bible says about it, if they don't decide to be Christian, they can see what Darwin says about it.
cue in 100000 people yelling about global warming.
seriously, we've only been recording temps since the 1800s. It's the same people who think that hurricane katrina was God being angry at us because of Iraq, totally ignoring the fact that hurricanes come in 30 year cycles, and that there were hurricanes about as bad as katrina 30 years ago (and that most of the hurricane's devastation comes from the fact that new orleans is under sea level).
so getting back to global warming, i mean does anyone know whether cold/hot periods on earth run in 200, 300, or 500 year cycles? i'm no scientist/meteorologist. i really don't know. But I do know that we know now that the poles on the earth are constantly shifting. And as are so many things on this planet.
Anyway, my point is, yeah of course we should reduce pollution, it's for our own good. I love fresh air. And this is newsworthy. But should we be throwing fits of "I-told-you-so" around about global warming? I don't know. Like I said, I'm no scientist.
hey, guess what, nobody's convinced on evolution because it doesn't have any real solid evidence.
neither does ID either, according to science.
but really, science is all theory. science is not solid enough to believe. science was wrong about the world being flat, wrong about the world being the center of the universe, and cannot be trusted anymore than the Bible can.
I truly dislike the summary of this article because it's basically saying "I'm an atheist, and I'm surprised that British people largely believe in ID. I thought they were smarter than that." It's just kind of annoying to me how atheists try to point out that they are more sophisticated and how everyone who believes in ID is simply ignorant. Who knows who's right, but everyone believes something different, and there's no reason to be surprised that a lot of people believe in ID.
Besides, if evolution really is true, why is there no other species that even comes close to human intelligence. You'd think that if evolution was close to the correct theory, that different species of monkeys/chimps/apes in different geological areas would evolve into different types of humanoid creatures. I would think if evolution was correct, there would be some sort of sub or super-human (as far as intelligence) that we could at least communicate with in some form, which would be distinctly human but have more or less intelligence, or other traits.
I think the greatest argument for intelligent design is that there is only one species of homosapien that is even close to the intelligence of humans. Even chimps are limited to monkey-see-monkey-do types of intelligence. Humans, on the other hand, are capable of gaining their own information and passing it down through generations, writing it down, expanding it, and improving technology, things like that. Humans are capable of learning without learning from other people. That's what makes them intelligent. Suddenly, because people started realizing that monkeys had similar hands, brains, and DNA strands to humans, they assume that we come from them. Maybe creatures on this earth are similar simply because the same God was making them all, not because of evolution.
If I remember right, the scientists invesigating evolution still haven't found any concrete evidence of an interim species that was between a monkey and a human.
the only thing I don't like about partisan politics is party line voting (which is basically the same as what everyone else has been saying).
Representatives need to either vote for what their local constituants want, or vote for what they believe is right, not what their party says.
It's probably the entire reason why George Washington didn't want parties.
I think if libs and conservs just acknowledged that the others weren't complete idiots, as most talk shows do, it would be better for all of us. There are a very select few talk shows who actually look at facts and try not to bash the other people personally.
1. AMD sells less of every product than intel. but this is expected - they are worth 11% of intel 2. sony is a bunch of assholes, and AMD really isn't. also, AMD actually makes superior products, which sony doesn't (anymore).
I would actually express it the other way around. Intel is like Sony (in gaming) because they use marketing tactics to gain mindshare, and pack in gimmicks that win over consumers (such as dvd playback in the PS2).
AMD is like Nintendo because they are focusing on what really matters most to people (even if they don't even know it), which is the performance of what their product does. Nintendo relentlessly talks about improving game quality and innovation, and AMD does the same thing by saying "you know what, marketing gimmicks don't work as well as better performance/watt and overall performance in the desktop and server market"
on another note, I think the fact that AMD is really killing intel in the desktop and especially server market right now, if AMD were to continue and totally win over those markets, I think by saying that Intel has the all important laptop market is total crap if (in the hypothetical situation) AMD were to take a huge share of both the desktop and server market.
and turions are pretty nice. I'd rather have a 64 bit mobile chip and sacrafice a little battery life. and when Vista comes out, you know which chip will run faster. Any battery life > 3 hours is perfectly acceptable. Whenever you go for a battery life higher than that, you either get a huge battery (and slow recharge times), or you simply end up sacraficing performance.
is it changes in literacy, or changes in the complexity of the crap that corporate America deals out?
100 years ago, ads would be something like this: "Gillete disposable razor, 2 cents. Great shave, just throw away the blade."
Today: "Gillete Mach3 Turbo Extreme Vibrating Thing!! It offers some sort of advantage over the previous model that we haven't discovered yet!! It takes batteries, which makes it better!! We'll give it to you FREE with 2 UPCs from Capn Crunch cereals, but you gotta send in a self-addressed package along with the envelope with.92 postage and fill out the $10 rebate form which will take 4-6 weeks-or um months to process. 1 AAA battery not included."
How many of those degrees are in Liberal Arts, or some other worthless degree that rarely lands a job that's even related to the field of study?
Because not a single conservative is attending college to take Liberal Arts.
It'd be interesting to see whether more conservatives or liberals have meaningful degrees, like medical or engineering degrees, I'm not going to list them all, but there are so many people (especially liberals) who will go to college even if they aren't really smart enough or really don't care what they do just to get a degree because they are too scared of factory work or assume that everyone has to go to college.
A conservative would be more likely to either pick something or work at his dad's job. I would also think that more conservatives than liberals would have a family job to go to instead of college, such as a farm, family business, etc.
This is all speculation, of course. And obviously it would show my conservative bias.
But to be honest, Liberal bias is a big problem in schools. My girlfriend has had times when she was in 5th grade and earlier where her teacher would give her low grades and tell her she was wrong to opinion quesions (i.e. what is the most important thing to you) and she would answer with Christian and/or conservative answers (i.e. God is the most important thing in her life).
As a more current example, with the amount of liberal teachers i have (95% liberal and 5% won't discuss their political beliefs in class), if I said that I thought that the war in Iraq was justified, my teachers would simply ridicule me or lower my grade unless I really presented solid, incredible evidence that I would actually have to go to Iraq to find out.
Whereas if a liberal were to say "I think the Iraq war is terrible," they would need no supporting argument since the teacher already agrees and thinks that the war is going so badly even though the only information any of us gets is straight from the media.
Honestly, I don't care what goes on at the UCLA, since I don't even consider that place to be worth anything anymore. It's now just becoming a political battleground, and I'm quite satisfied just going to college and getting my Computer Engineering degree, away from sociological political discussion.
well it's a good thing they picked a domain name that's already in use by a marketing firm "Quaero"
I got an idea. Why not get rid of the EU, since it makes the decent people of Europe seem so idiotic. What's so wrong with Google and Yahoo! and what makes the European govt. compelled to compete?
i guess this is why one core in intel's new laptop chips are twice as fast as IBM's current chips at the same clock speed. And, you know, since IBM had trouble supplying Apple's 3% marketshare PC market, they are going to have a great time supplying enough chips to go into the PS3, the successor to the console that took 70% of the home console marketshare and sold, I dunno, what is it, 40-50 million units? I honestly don't remember, but I'm pretty sure total PS sales including the PSOne have surpassed 100 million.
I don't see how IBM can just pull Cell technology out of its ass and expect us to believe that the PS3 is going to make a huge difference in graphics compared to the Xbox 360. Their chips are made by the same company, and anyone who believes this PR hype should seriously consider looking up because there's gullible written on the ceiling.
Not only that, but the only way you'll see a difference is if you are using the most expensive 1080p television availible. If you own an Xbox 360 with a standard definition TV, you already know that it looks like Xbox 1.5.
"winnners" and "realmedia" are not words typically used in the same sentence.
Why can't we all just use MPEGS and AVIs, and forget about movs and wmvs. there's no point to proprietary video codecs when there are so many open alternatives that are free and oftentimes superior (MPEG4 H.264 comes to mind)
Come on, it's not like Linux where when you switch to it it's really hard for n00bs, they are just video files!
from wikipedia: Malware (a portmanteau of "malicious software") is any software program developed for the purpose of causing harm to a computer system, similar to a virus or trojan horse.
Other definitions of malware cite the software reinstalling itself after you uninstall it from your computer.
in short, iTunes is none of this. This is just garbage used by whoever wrote it to get publicity. iTunes finding relevant content based on what you purchase or listen to is just the same stuff that Google and practically every other company on the internet has been using for YEARS.
iTunes does no harm, therefore cannot even be considered malware. It can't even be considered ad-ware, since they don't sell off your personal information. It's not spyware either, they are just looking your purchasing history, which is absolutely not spyware, and it's obviously not a virus, trojan, or worm.
I mean come on Google has their entire company strategy based on targeted ads.
very true, but there are many other options: - wine or other technologies like that - the next virtual pc version - probably porting will be easier for game developers. i'm not sure though, although that would be the case for games written in assembly....like uhh...rollercoaster tycoon.
however, nothing can change the fact that it's still an EREADER and that nobody really wants this functionality. Also given the fact that it's really hard to actually find eBooks to read.
they should use the display technology for something else. Sony is wasting their time.
this summary is so biased, it's rediculous. by being a cooler processor and faster in practically every benchmark, doesn't the FX-60 deserve to cost $30
like that's going to matter when you are buying a $1000 processor. i'd gladly pay the extra 3% for a cooler processor that performs, then my cooling solution could cost $30 less.
I'd also be interested in what the retail prices will be. Yeah, the 1000 quantity intels are cheaper, but what if the markups on the intels are higher once they hit retail? I mean it's not to say that the Intel will be more expensive or the AMD will be more expensive at retail prices, I don't know, but I'd say that there's a good chance that those prices will even out a little when you are buying 1 processor from a retailer.
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yeah...not really much of a surprise.
no other OS comes with antivirus. all the other comments around here explain why it would be better for us if MS stayed out of the anti-virus business.
Why do we have to sue everyone over every little flaw??
OMG It eats up a little battery life. Hey, nothing is perfect! Are you insane, why would you sue over every inperfection?
why not sell this idea to the general public? All I want is a laptop that is compact and can get online and do word processing and genral apps at a decent speed. But I don't want to spend $600 just to get a basic laptop. Why not sell the general public a version of this for $200 as an basic laptop or one for K-12 students (a starter laptop of sorts).
I'm sure today's $100-200 technology can beat my Pentium II Compaq Armada 7400. I just want a laptop that can word process like a champ, and my PII won't cut it!
napster to compete with iTunes? MSN to compete with iTunes? Rhapsody to compete with iTunes?
Yeah, okay, they do, but iTunes won't be dethroned UNTIL the iPod is. Google may come the closest, but I doubt it. Just cause it says "Google" on it doesn't mean it will automatically become the most popular.
wait! if google.cn is searching .cn domains, then it's CHINA's filtering, not Gogole's!
if there are no pictures of what really happened at tiennamen square on chinese web sites, and google cn, for the same reason google.com only searches english sites by default, is only searching chinese language sites, then it's not google's fault that the chinese are getting a different internet than the rest of the world.
Like I said, I guess to reply to everyone who replied to me, I am no scientist, again, but I do like some of the things that were pointed out here.
I agree with whoever said it, believing in either creationism or evolution requires a leap of faith, because neither has been solidified to even be a theory that in the scientific world has been accepted as fact. I know that scientists aren't about prooving things so much as finding theories and testing them, but some theories just become accepted as fact.
The leap of faith required for ID is "I have enough faith in my creator and therefore I believe in ID"
The leap of faith required for evolution is something like "I have enough faith that either there is no creator or my creator didn't directly make humans specifically to conclude that evolution is right."
You can't prove where we came from, because it's part of religion. Half of religion is where we came from, and half is where we think we're going. Atheism could almost be a religion, because it could say "We came from predecessing animals and when we die we turn back to carbon and that's that." It's just like another religion, predicting what happens to us when we die, and what happened when we were born.
I'm a Christian, and I have enough faith in God that I think that ID is closer to the truth. Some people assume that for that reason I am less intellectual or whatever. That was the point I was trying to make.
Because of how Atheism in itself is almost a religion, in that it is about where we came from and where we will go when we die, why should evolution be taught in schools? Why should ID be taught in schools? They shouldn't! Schools shouldn't teach where we came from! We don't know. Just the same as schools don't teach where we go when we die. Schools shouldn't teach atheism, they should teach what we know. They should teach our kids how to get jobs, how to learn in college, how to live, and how to eat right. Not crap that the human race is still debating. They shouldn't teach creation at all in Biology, they should say, "you know what, there are too many theories, we don't really know how organisms first were made on this earth." School systems seem to either pick ID or evolution. I say no, I say pick neither. My kids can learn about where they came from themselves, and if they decide to be Christian they can see what the Bible says about it, if they don't decide to be Christian, they can see what Darwin says about it.
cue in 100000 people yelling about global warming.
seriously, we've only been recording temps since the 1800s. It's the same people who think that hurricane katrina was God being angry at us because of Iraq, totally ignoring the fact that hurricanes come in 30 year cycles, and that there were hurricanes about as bad as katrina 30 years ago (and that most of the hurricane's devastation comes from the fact that new orleans is under sea level).
so getting back to global warming, i mean does anyone know whether cold/hot periods on earth run in 200, 300, or 500 year cycles? i'm no scientist/meteorologist. i really don't know. But I do know that we know now that the poles on the earth are constantly shifting. And as are so many things on this planet.
Anyway, my point is, yeah of course we should reduce pollution, it's for our own good. I love fresh air. And this is newsworthy. But should we be throwing fits of "I-told-you-so" around about global warming? I don't know. Like I said, I'm no scientist.
hey, guess what, nobody's convinced on evolution because it doesn't have any real solid evidence.
neither does ID either, according to science.
but really, science is all theory. science is not solid enough to believe. science was wrong about the world being flat, wrong about the world being the center of the universe, and cannot be trusted anymore than the Bible can.
I truly dislike the summary of this article because it's basically saying "I'm an atheist, and I'm surprised that British people largely believe in ID. I thought they were smarter than that." It's just kind of annoying to me how atheists try to point out that they are more sophisticated and how everyone who believes in ID is simply ignorant. Who knows who's right, but everyone believes something different, and there's no reason to be surprised that a lot of people believe in ID.
Besides, if evolution really is true, why is there no other species that even comes close to human intelligence. You'd think that if evolution was close to the correct theory, that different species of monkeys/chimps/apes in different geological areas would evolve into different types of humanoid creatures. I would think if evolution was correct, there would be some sort of sub or super-human (as far as intelligence) that we could at least communicate with in some form, which would be distinctly human but have more or less intelligence, or other traits.
I think the greatest argument for intelligent design is that there is only one species of homosapien that is even close to the intelligence of humans. Even chimps are limited to monkey-see-monkey-do types of intelligence. Humans, on the other hand, are capable of gaining their own information and passing it down through generations, writing it down, expanding it, and improving technology, things like that. Humans are capable of learning without learning from other people. That's what makes them intelligent. Suddenly, because people started realizing that monkeys had similar hands, brains, and DNA strands to humans, they assume that we come from them. Maybe creatures on this earth are similar simply because the same God was making them all, not because of evolution.
If I remember right, the scientists invesigating evolution still haven't found any concrete evidence of an interim species that was between a monkey and a human.
the only thing I don't like about partisan politics is party line voting (which is basically the same as what everyone else has been saying).
Representatives need to either vote for what their local constituants want, or vote for what they believe is right, not what their party says.
It's probably the entire reason why George Washington didn't want parties.
I think if libs and conservs just acknowledged that the others weren't complete idiots, as most talk shows do, it would be better for all of us. There are a very select few talk shows who actually look at facts and try not to bash the other people personally.
well, except for a couple things:
1. AMD sells less of every product than intel. but this is expected - they are worth 11% of intel
2. sony is a bunch of assholes, and AMD really isn't. also, AMD actually makes superior products, which sony doesn't (anymore).
I would actually express it the other way around.
Intel is like Sony (in gaming) because they use marketing tactics to gain mindshare, and pack in gimmicks that win over consumers (such as dvd playback in the PS2).
AMD is like Nintendo because they are focusing on what really matters most to people (even if they don't even know it), which is the performance of what their product does. Nintendo relentlessly talks about improving game quality and innovation, and AMD does the same thing by saying "you know what, marketing gimmicks don't work as well as better performance/watt and overall performance in the desktop and server market"
on another note, I think the fact that AMD is really killing intel in the desktop and especially server market right now, if AMD were to continue and totally win over those markets, I think by saying that Intel has the all important laptop market is total crap if (in the hypothetical situation) AMD were to take a huge share of both the desktop and server market.
and turions are pretty nice. I'd rather have a 64 bit mobile chip and sacrafice a little battery life. and when Vista comes out, you know which chip will run faster. Any battery life > 3 hours is perfectly acceptable. Whenever you go for a battery life higher than that, you either get a huge battery (and slow recharge times), or you simply end up sacraficing performance.
is it changes in literacy, or changes in the complexity of the crap that corporate America deals out?
.92 postage and fill out the $10 rebate form which will take 4-6 weeks-or um months to process. 1 AAA battery not included."
100 years ago, ads would be something like this:
"Gillete disposable razor, 2 cents. Great shave, just throw away the blade."
Today:
"Gillete Mach3 Turbo Extreme Vibrating Thing!! It offers some sort of advantage over the previous model that we haven't discovered yet!! It takes batteries, which makes it better!! We'll give it to you FREE with 2 UPCs from Capn Crunch cereals, but you gotta send in a self-addressed package along with the envelope with
How many of those degrees are in Liberal Arts, or some other worthless degree that rarely lands a job that's even related to the field of study?
Because not a single conservative is attending college to take Liberal Arts.
It'd be interesting to see whether more conservatives or liberals have meaningful degrees, like medical or engineering degrees, I'm not going to list them all, but there are so many people (especially liberals) who will go to college even if they aren't really smart enough or really don't care what they do just to get a degree because they are too scared of factory work or assume that everyone has to go to college.
A conservative would be more likely to either pick something or work at his dad's job. I would also think that more conservatives than liberals would have a family job to go to instead of college, such as a farm, family business, etc.
This is all speculation, of course. And obviously it would show my conservative bias.
But to be honest, Liberal bias is a big problem in schools. My girlfriend has had times when she was in 5th grade and earlier where her teacher would give her low grades and tell her she was wrong to opinion quesions (i.e. what is the most important thing to you) and she would answer with Christian and/or conservative answers (i.e. God is the most important thing in her life).
As a more current example, with the amount of liberal teachers i have (95% liberal and 5% won't discuss their political beliefs in class), if I said that I thought that the war in Iraq was justified, my teachers would simply ridicule me or lower my grade unless I really presented solid, incredible evidence that I would actually have to go to Iraq to find out.
Whereas if a liberal were to say "I think the Iraq war is terrible," they would need no supporting argument since the teacher already agrees and thinks that the war is going so badly even though the only information any of us gets is straight from the media.
Honestly, I don't care what goes on at the UCLA, since I don't even consider that place to be worth anything anymore. It's now just becoming a political battleground, and I'm quite satisfied just going to college and getting my Computer Engineering degree, away from sociological political discussion.
there is definatly something wrong. my G4 ibook boots faster than that. same with my G4 iMac
doesn't ANYONE have a macintel imac that they could just TRY this with and tell us what happens?
It's been on sale for quite some time now and unlike the Powerb- I mean MacBook Pro.
well it's a good thing they picked a domain name that's already in use by a marketing firm "Quaero"
I got an idea. Why not get rid of the EU, since it makes the decent people of Europe seem so idiotic. What's so wrong with Google and Yahoo! and what makes the European govt. compelled to compete?
i guess this is why one core in intel's new laptop chips are twice as fast as IBM's current chips at the same clock speed. And, you know, since IBM had trouble supplying Apple's 3% marketshare PC market, they are going to have a great time supplying enough chips to go into the PS3, the successor to the console that took 70% of the home console marketshare and sold, I dunno, what is it, 40-50 million units? I honestly don't remember, but I'm pretty sure total PS sales including the PSOne have surpassed 100 million.
I don't see how IBM can just pull Cell technology out of its ass and expect us to believe that the PS3 is going to make a huge difference in graphics compared to the Xbox 360. Their chips are made by the same company, and anyone who believes this PR hype should seriously consider looking up because there's gullible written on the ceiling.
Not only that, but the only way you'll see a difference is if you are using the most expensive 1080p television availible. If you own an Xbox 360 with a standard definition TV, you already know that it looks like Xbox 1.5.
"winnners" and "realmedia" are not words typically used in the same sentence.
Why can't we all just use MPEGS and AVIs, and forget about movs and wmvs. there's no point to proprietary video codecs when there are so many open alternatives that are free and oftentimes superior (MPEG4 H.264 comes to mind)
Come on, it's not like Linux where when you switch to it it's really hard for n00bs, they are just video files!
And of course on that note, VLC rocks.
if the keyboard is covered and you can never get to it again, then how do you get to RAM/Airport Extreme?
in iBooks, the RAM is located under the keyboard and you get to it by taking off the keyboard.
sorry, got the link wrong
Malware at Wikipedia
from wikipedia:
Malware (a portmanteau of "malicious software") is any software program developed for the purpose of causing harm to a computer system, similar to a virus or trojan horse.
Other definitions of malware cite the software reinstalling itself after you uninstall it from your computer.
in short, iTunes is none of this. This is just garbage used by whoever wrote it to get publicity. iTunes finding relevant content based on what you purchase or listen to is just the same stuff that Google and practically every other company on the internet has been using for YEARS.
iTunes does no harm, therefore cannot even be considered malware. It can't even be considered ad-ware, since they don't sell off your personal information. It's not spyware either, they are just looking your purchasing history, which is absolutely not spyware, and it's obviously not a virus, trojan, or worm.
I mean come on Google has their entire company strategy based on targeted ads.
didn't have the option?
i hope this means that someone was buying you the computer and would only buy you a dell.
because every other pc manufacterer uses both amd and intel chips.
very true, but there are many other options:
- wine or other technologies like that
- the next virtual pc version
- probably porting will be easier for game developers. i'm not sure though, although that would be the case for games written in assembly....like uhh...rollercoaster tycoon.
this sony reader is absolutely a cool device.
however, nothing can change the fact that it's still an EREADER and that nobody really wants this functionality. Also given the fact that it's really hard to actually find eBooks to read.
they should use the display technology for something else. Sony is wasting their time.
oh crap...corrections
..."doesn't the FX-60 deserve to cost $30 more" - forgot the word "more"
subject should be "summary way biased"
yeah...i know
should have hit the preview button
this summary is so biased, it's rediculous. by being a cooler processor and faster in practically every benchmark, doesn't the FX-60 deserve to cost $30
like that's going to matter when you are buying a $1000 processor. i'd gladly pay the extra 3% for a cooler processor that performs, then my cooling solution could cost $30 less.
I'd also be interested in what the retail prices will be. Yeah, the 1000 quantity intels are cheaper, but what if the markups on the intels are higher once they hit retail? I mean it's not to say that the Intel will be more expensive or the AMD will be more expensive at retail prices, I don't know, but I'd say that there's a good chance that those prices will even out a little when you are buying 1 processor from a retailer.