While I agree with most of your post, I think a Thinkpad looks better than any Mac, because, you know, everyone seem to have different approaches to what they see as "good looking" slick, boxy, black and matte are my choices. I just don't see myself buying white or UFOwannabe hardware. And I can't see any industrial design merit in Mac Books since others are doing things like this:

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:W700ds

Double Screen, RAID, WACOM and Colomimeter in a laptop.

Yeah, Everyone knows Word and Facebook benefits a LOT from HT and multicore so average computer user RUSH to the store so they can buy the latest and greatest and they finally get good FPSs in farmvile. Oh and p0rn is more snappier (pun pun pun) with 12 cores /sarcasm

I simply take any benchmark as a grain of salt, it is well known the Intel optimizes their CPUs so they tweak themselves if they detect a benchmark application. Excuse me if I pass on the eV1agr4 I have better things in which spend the money for desktop components.

Yes something like that exist, North peninsula of Colombia: sierra, jungle, sea, and desert, "within hiking distance" but not everyone speaks the same language.

A big island in the pacific? I guess theres plenty of those geographic curiosities.

ahh the glory of living in developing countries, If I buy a used OEM box and the sticker key is banned (not so common) just have to email a photo/scan of the sticker and box details and MS sends me a new key via email all in less than 3 hours. I never had to fight with some callcenterdroid, actually Local MS offices are known by their good customer support. Not that it changes what i think about MS personally.

The win7 x64 pro retail I run now automagically activated once I connected to internet.

Did you know that you can transfer your XP validation copying two system32 files? "requires" you to use the same hardware but I tried HDD and CPU replacements and it worked just fine.

Was it worth to change to Win7? The thing seems stable, tweaking msconfig and activating multicore kernel + readyboost have really speed up things, I mean, Adobe CS4 feels like its actually a(n) slim and nonbloated piece of software. Only Fedora is faster on that machine, but thats a given. Had some problems with hibernation and some drivers need a lot of tweaking so is not a flawless experience but so far, better than XP.

I'm Colombian, and why would we want a nuclear bomb? our enemy is in the jungle so our priority is helicopters and jungle commandos which are the best of the world thanks to 50 years of infamous continuous war now very close to an end, not thanks to the shitload of cocaine money that pour on those fuckers thanks to You fellow dopehead.

I even find it funny for Chavez to have a nuclear bomb, he knows the moment USA finds out he will get a GPS guided bomb in his ass. AFAIK Brazil and Argentina have modest nuclear programs, countries that OHMYFUCKINGGOAWD have been in the hands of socialist governments last years, yet I don't hear any American media outlets complaining that evil Brazilian cleptosicialisturrurist attacking teh freedom (tm)

For a sting operation the customer being Venezuela was correct. IRL Venezuela have long commercial and military agreements with Russia, Russia can sell them 1 of 2 nukes for the lulz, buy today, use tomorrow pay in 6 months. I think Iran could do the same thing: buy the nukes and be done with it, but then how is USA going to whine about it? because, you know, America of lately don't bitch a lot to other big superpowers like China or Russia.

Of course this can be the start of the next security theater, you know, big defense megacorps HATE being without a punchbag to test their shit and make money.

Hey! thats a tilde, slashcode is going to get mad :(

But I support you idea, You all use "Gratis" anyway, you could get more RAEish and call it "Balon Pie".

I can has raw cat?

Like the World Series, We all know the internet is a developed-world-only stuff... :D

But in all seriousness local soccer assocs have direct line with the FIFA, you know, every statistic of every local match (A series) is sent to the FIFA.

You can't have a revolution without propaganda you silly. If Apple have taught us something is that tech does not matter once we have MAGIC.

In my case, being a desktop publishing freelance without the possibility to migrate to Linux :( (oh lord how I hate Adobe)I'm planning to stay on XP for at least 6 months I have recent hardware but I'm waiting for some upgrades before migrating: SSD, ATI 49XX and bigger screen.

W7 not only performed better in the power consumption area in my test but it plays nicely with multi core processors, all my software played nicely.

Maybe I'll wait more to see what AMD's bulldozer will bring to the table, If I can run an XP VM inside Linux without a performance hit (4 cores and 4 gigs should be enough for any XP) I might just go that way, that would be very nice.

Since this article is about enterprise environments, I think it's better to start to look how will be your upgrade path. Anyway I have one client thats happy running his accounting software in Win98SE, I told him to upgrade but he's just waiting for the machine to die, I offered to virtualize his Win98 set up, yes, lazy accounting software developers are lazy, his software does not even support XP.

Score +2 Troll

Wow, I think you pissed off the bug man, it's going berserk! Looks like slashcode has gained sent^h^h^h^everything is fine.

Hey! ADD much?

This is not an Apple article is about HTML5

Last time I checked Universe=!Apple The fact that you twist every article to end up talking about Apple is not my business.

You think it's bad?

http://www.businessinsider.com/confirmed-there-is-a-second-leaking-rig-near-the-deepwater-2010-6

Different company etc.