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Well, I suppose it's worth writing about again, especially since there will be an influx of XP users using Windows 7. I'd need to do some research again though... You made me install EasyBCD again on my XP laptop just to be sure I remembered correctly. EasyBCD does not work in XP, it's...

Four years ago it was the Pentium M, and that still outperformed the Atom. The differences in battery life against a Pentium M would've been great though, but again Pentium M's were 90nm, not 45nm. That's just it, I'm not sure Atom measures up well for HTPC use, at least high-definition use...

Very beautiful! I love stuff like this, although it's better with the sound effects to go with the light show. You don't see storms anything like that or with that kind of intensity around here. Not that we've been getting much of any storms at all, mind you... we're missing almost a full...

I don't think the new format's future is as bleak as you think... for the simple reason that Apple is going to push it. Or specifically, Apple is wanting to push their own propriatary Apple-only version of this new format. The ironic thing is the music industy, for obvious reasons, is against...

So what if the ink expires? I used expired ink in my Epson 880i for several years because the printer was bought before 2000 when I was in high school, and finding ink for it got rather hard when they phased out the cartridge. (Not to mention expired ink was cheap as dirt) Occasionally I'd use...

One of the very reasons I started using Opera was because I couldn't stand IE6 let alone IE7, and my attempts at using Firefox usually resulted in crashes from the plugins. At one point I quit using Opera after it began having memory issues and tried to go back to Firefox, I don't remember the...

It's going to be all about the savings... and about the rarity, if some of these models with their specific options/color/extras are very hard to come by locally. Sounds like a good idea though, although I assume dealers will be split over it.

I mention the drivers because one of the people claiming their system BSOD'd was actually testing for the bug inside of a virtual machine. I typed that before reading the second half of your post... that is exactly my point. VMWare uses a driver layer to interface with the system hardware, and...

That is true enough... however I am pretty sure installing Vista won't ruin an existing install of Windows 7 and would dual-boot with it just fine. I've not tested that out personally, though! Once XP screws up the Vista install the the "Repair your computer" via disc method won't work... at...

Toshiba has already confirmed rumors that they are about to launch their own Blu-ray player, so I guess their desire to join the Blu-ray consortium to have a say in the spec just makes sense.

It will, but it is like Vista. If you have Windows 7 or Windows Vista installed first, then a user can't simply install XP without it trashing W7 or Vista's changed/updated bootloader. XP uses a different bootloader config. If the user has XP installed first, then Vista and W7 will detect...

Exactly, XP mode is for those users that want to run old 2000-era software inside Windows 7. I'm frequently hearing about people that have programs that work in XP, but not Vista or W7 and this virtual XP fixed the problem. Such as a friend of mine is still using Photoshop 6, it doesn't install...

Yeah, it's truly horrible... their approval system appears to be no better than a 14 year old kid hitting yes or no, and while he frequently revokes access to a huge number of approved apps, he never seems to approve any apps that get denied for the silliest reasons.

I've seen one of the cheap $180 ASUS 24" monitors in person and have to say, it's as crisp, bright, and colorful as you could want. It had a bit of ghosting but since you aren't planning on using videos or games then I don't see any reason to recommend anything more than two or three of these...

I'll just chip in here. Steven Sinofsky himself states the program is designed to use all available system RAM short of 50MB in order to speed up the chkdisk /r process. From the first half of the same quote Rob used: Since the RAM usage is by design, that means the only issue here is the...

I guess I'm pretty boring, I name mine based off the case itself so I know which is which. :p And Homegroups don't have names... I think. Just passwords that I never remember.

Virtual Machines can indeed be extremely secure, but like with all things they are not foolproof. If you had a virtual machine running it is possible for it to catch viruses or maleware, or even be hacked. This infected guest OS then, while unlikely, does have the capability to attempt to...

If it wasn't for the almost double price the Samsung NC20 or MSI's Wind U200 both look good... it's nice to see ultraportables falling below $1k finally. This was definitely an interesting roundup though, such completely different guts in both of those.

I do burn easily, but being this close to the equator the sun feels like it is burning you within just 30 minutes. The sunlight is just much more direct... I shudder to imagine further south as it is. For example when visiting New York for the summers when I was growing up, the sun wasn't...

Heh, this is well proven fact that tanning beds are worse than actual sun exposure, even those tanning beds that only emit UVA radiation. I can't remember what The Universe show it was, but they briefly explained UVA, UVB, and UVC rays, and have a brief detour into tanning beds as they used...