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Hey, my ram air scoop is bigger than your ram air scoop.... Wanna race?

Well... my ASRock HTPC is getting updated as soon as I can get one of these, no more space crunch... I've always favored WD drives. Nice article, thanks Rob!

Nice Mouse! (although a little over the top...) FWIW... the original unit of measure for mouse movement was ... ready for this.. "Mickeys".

LOL... rhetorical or not, it has long been my experience that whenever the opportunity exists for people to behave stupidly, they will happily do just that. Prime example... I recently got a call about system shutdowns on a fairly modest system. Buddy had put clothes pins in all the fans...

Takes me back to the old 386 BIOS days... Keyboard Error Press F2 to enter Setup.

How about... "Hey martha, we should git this'un... it don't need one o' those noisey fan thingies!" I'd bet real money there's at least one idiot out there who will interpret the absense of a cooler as the absence of a need for a cooler...

Holy $^#%... You're right! ... Wada maroon!

Out of memory?

Dear god... that thing is 74 minutes long! Is it just me or is this world getting dumber by the minute? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lo4NCXOX0p8 (One of my faves...)

ROFL... And this surprises you because???

Keep in mind Google is not a search provider... It is an advertising company... A damned big one, but an advertising company none the less.

Good points Kougar.... That's why, when I bought my ASRock/ION box I was overjoyed to see that it shipped without an operating system... Since it was becomming a multimedia drone and with a dual core Atom, I wanted XP in there. (still the best for video and audio) So, I didn't end up...

WOW... Dumb idea! 1) About a week after this goes into production someone will have a torrent out there to do the upgrade "illegally" (i.e. without paying for it)... 2) Why on earth would anyone buy a machine knowing the CPU is half crippled? Even the dumbest of users should be able to...

Because we keep paying them to build them! But any diplomate engineer who has to resort to "flipping burgers" has problems far greater than landing in a sweat shop...

@marfig ... good response, point well made. Therefore, if you substitute "curriculae" for "resume" then I agree... :D (I don't care if I'm being educated by a high school dropout, so long as I'm getting the right information.)

One has to wonder how many computers (of all flavours) are purchased with the specific intent of replacing the operating systems... Does Dell even sell hardware with Linux or BSD installed? I can't really see how they would have a basis for warranty negation because of a changed OS... Surely...

I agree, there's good and bad everywhere... but before an article such as that is going to end up in the wall street journal --a prime target for lawsuits-- you can bet it's been vetted, rewritten and vetted again, several times before it's printed. As I pointed out in an earlier post...

Yeah... Turbo C --16 bit version-- MS-DOS ... they just aren't with the times. I sure wouldn't want to be one of their graduates... that first job interview must be one giant rude awakening! On the hardware side we've had a few guys still trying to do stuff for 16 bit CPUs and even one came...

Another forum I'm a regular on has run into this big time... Seems they're training programmers on 20 and 30 year old compilers, some are still teaching MS-DOS programming and it's actually turning into something of a crisis in the software world. Not only are these guys getting out of date...

Now these guys have a real problem going on over there... http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703515504576142092863219826.html