Recent content by Windaria

$2000 for a laptop? Only if you want to get ripped... heck, here, about 1000: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220566 Nvidia 240M with 1GB graphics memory, 4GB ram, nice display or, if you want to spend a little over 1200...

buciferLoL, you sir are an idiot! You don't need the latest drivers for your card to work! Even if they would support your card they won't bring any performance gains after a year. Drivers are generally focused to fix and improve performance on new models with no effect on the old ones. So stop...

For me, AMD's discontinuing Linux support for cards as recent as 1 year old as being "antiquated" has caused me to lose all respect for them. After all, you can't just upgrade a laptop card, if you could, I would. But since not, I'm sorry, I have lost all confidence in them. After all, you could...

lowguppyI really dislike the concept of paying for an OS. More often than not people pay for them behind the scenes in the price of a retail computer, or they pirate them. MS has actually taken a pretty soft stance on Windows piracy, as they understand how much of their business is based on...

ta152hActually, there is a cost for selling a license; it's called support. All those folks at Microsoft that talk to you for free for a limited time have to be paid, and they wouldn't need to be paid unless people had licenses. More licenses, more support costs. Of course, Microsoft also has...

Priced around $600? Um... that's about where the Dell Studio all-in-one starts, and it has a significantly better processor and display. Why would anyone buy the Shuttle?

TheZanderWhat they're doing isn't as odd or irrational as you make it sound. They are simply "binning" software for marketing and business purposes. It's never going to be worth it to pay a full-priced license for Windows 7 Home Premium or Business on a $300 netbook. It's not practical for the...

It drives me nuts when you use the word stealing. Stealing is taking (note the word) something that isn't yours, when the person who has it doesn't want you to. Wireless can be secured or not, the SSID can be broadcast or not, and the MAC addresses can be filtered or not. If I setup a...

Yes, that's the cost of Windows, and this is why MS HATES netbooks, and is putting maximum specifications on them. After all, think about it, a netbook (hardware+software) sells for less than a full copy of Windows, so they have to sell Windows VERY cheap to get netbook makers to use it, instead...

alp18These requirements are already in place for current Netbooks running Windows XP.I'm hoping these are just the specs M$ for netbook mfgs and not that the OS is actually crippled to not run faster than 2Ghz or recognize >1GB memory. Now if they go to the trouble to actually limit the OS, now...

Wow... so, we have gone from netbooks running Linux because they couldn't handle them, to running Windows because they could then handle XP, and now they'll go back to running Linux (or Mac OS?) simply because, as the technology progresses, no one wants the slow, crappy netbooks that run...

So... the logic is "We put all this money into developing windows... now we're going to put extra money, time, and resources creating various crippling techniques, and charge you less for it, while gouging you for what we really developed in the first place." I mean, if you are developing the...

If it comes pre-loaded with starter edition instead of xp or vista, great, it reduced the cost. Unfortunately you can't buy them with no OS, so money still goes to fund a company when I won't use their software anyway after wiping and installing Linux, but at least it's a step in the right...

2 words: Linux Support.

Absolutely, I don't even have Windows installed at home anymore. As far as what distro? I tend to install every major one every 6 months or so, just to try out the latest thing, and the advances over the last year have been INCREDIBLE (though I'm back on Ubuntu 8.10 at the moment due to an ATI...