Comment Re:Gaming? (Score 4, Insightful) 110
"Gaming" means: "Fast, overpriced and we don't care about reliability".
You can do computer science just with paper and pen. That is entirely feasible and totally common in any computer science curriculum at any halfway decent university. Oh, you thought that computer science = programming. Well, yeah, no... it isn't and technically you can program without a computer too. You just can't run your programs.
I say "Thank you EA".
At work I have a Win7 VM in VirtualBox, it is horribly, horribly slow. The XP VM on the same VirtualBox host, is snappy and quick.
XP might be dead, but it's makes a rather well preserved zombie.
"One lawyer can steal more than a hundred men with guns." -- The Godfather