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Wil AMD be working with FOSS developers to take better advantage of Ryzen processors, say for Linux or FOSS programs?

Maybe I'm a bit näive, but at $80 for the CPU + $120 for a card (total $200) a high-end AMD APU such as the A10-7850K (@$170) would cost less. The motherboards would be equivalent price to this system, and the memory, HD, case & power supply would be identical. I don't think I've seen an...

I agree with the additions of billafu and Flying-Q, and the notation that laptops with software don't really count. But I'd add the computer from "The Invisible Boy", the computer from "Westworld" and "Futureworld". Also note that the infamous computer from Star Trek (TOS) was NOT called...

"0 dB" Does anyone here realize that the decibel scale is logarithmic, not linear? It is a ratio of a measured quantity to a reference quantity. That means that there IS a possibility of negative dB numbers. However, virtually any indoor environment (home, office) is far noisier than "zero dB"...

Maybe three is a charm. They should stick to what they're good at - lawsuits and intimidation. Oh, sorry... "imitation."

Windows 8 might be okay for phones & tablets, but for Desktop PCs? Have they lost their freaking minds? It'll be a worse disaster than Vista was. We've been testing it at work for months, and our IT department says that we are definitely NOT going to Windows 8.

I agree with rex86. I smell Microsoft (or a former Microsoft executive) behind this.

cyprod... Then some company, I want to say it was Bic, but I can't remember who made it originally, developed a pressurized pen on their own volition and marketed it to NASA..... It was Paper Mate that created it. I remember using one in high school in the late 60's/early 70's. (We were all...

I believe Microsoft realized this some time ago, as they've been blasting commercials about IE9 for weeks. IE only runs on one OS, and it comes bundled with it. The fact that Firefox & Chrome (and others) have had to fight to get used at all probably says more about the poor state of IE for...

I'm not a particularly big fan of "Ubuntu", but many Linux distributions don't take any more "technical knowledge" to run than Windows. In some cases, it's easier. But what it does take is a little time to learn what it can do. You read your new car's manual to find out what the switches do...

That's nice... but won't you still need a keyboard (and mouse) to do anything? If they've got a keyboard already, then they would already have a computer as well. Why hasn't someone just built a compact keyboard (say with a trackball/trackpad) and the computer is all inside it? Just plug in...

pbrigidoI think it would be great if drivers were embeded in a flash based storage chip on a device itself. Having a NIC (or any other add-in card) with built in drivers that were installed automatically would be a neat feature. It would save space on your OS disk and reduce the need to go and...

joe nate...If you have a return and wipe the data off some sort of flash memory, it reduces the life expectancy of that drive - which isn't new anymore, so to resell it you'd have to discount it.Ever done a defrag on an SSD? I wouldn't suggest it. Putting it in a microwave does about the same...

So they're trying to do to tablets what they did to netbooks - make them so expensive that they're not going to sell, and then the 'nix systems will continue to be the dominant players.

But at least Ubuntu (and other Linux distributions) don't try to charge you for a "new" operating system every time they release. Nor do they actively work to break your older software so you MUST buy newer versions of that as well. Besides, if you happen to not like the way the FOSS software...