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What you _MUST_ test next is the effect on performance during an automatic update for the anti-virus. This is when I notice how much they can slow down a slower computer (e.g. a netbook) to a crawl. This is especially annoying when you turn on a computer for the first time after some time...

I'm an power user and I prefer XP over 7. It gives me more control over what I wanna do.

Take a phone that needs to be charged once a week. Reduce its battery in size and weight until it needs to be charged every night (i.e. average/semi-heavy use for 1 day = 65% battery used up). Give me the new slimmer, lighter phone and I will gladly prefer it over the original heavy/bulky one.

This "performance" test doesn't capture the time needed to browse already visited sites. In Opera, when you click the back/forward buttons, the web pages appear almost instantly. In Chrome and Internet Explorer, they have to be gotten from the web again, so it takes a second or two. This is...

drownedSell it, downgrade to a quad core i7, then use the profits for crossfire X 5970's. Hahahaha, this is so full of win. :P Well, not for AMD.

Guys, don't worry! What happens to all your Steam games in 10 years if Steam goes out of business? Valve have said it themselves. If it ever happens, they will release a patch that will make all your games playable without Steam. Sheesh. :/

I would work on a ray tracing engine.

What's there to get excited about? I guess you guys haven't heard of T91 and T91MT. All this is is a slightly updated bigger bro of T91MT at 10". The T91MT had a lukewarm reception at best. It just turns out to be a mediocre device that's only really good for very few people. I predict it...

Lol, I didn't realize this article was talking about the stereoscopic 3D effect using shutter glasses, but rather normal 3D games (as opposed to 2D) at first. I was really confused and thinking "wth, is this an article from '99?"

Intel's plans do.

Nice article. Seems to be fairly accurate.

Isn't there an error in the article? A gigabit network implies 1'000'000'000 bits per second transfer rate. 1'000'000'000 bits / 8 = 125'000'000 bytes. 125'000'000 bytes / 1024 = 122'070.3 kilobytes. 122'070.3 kilobytes / 1024 = 119.2 megabytes. In other words, a gigabit network's...

"There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who would piggyback on someone else’s Wi-Fi and those who lie about whether or not they would piggy back on someone else’s Wi-Fi." What the hell? I didn't think this was so common. I don't think I've ever done it.

rambo117what i want to know is why they [should] benchmark with GTA, such horrible scaling and also being a console port blaugh. Because it's a game people actually want to play, so knowing how fast it runs is relevant?

Does it say anywhere what CPU/RAM/etc. they've used for the tests? I can't find it.