The MP3 player market is dead. The tablet and smartphone markets have competitors that have rapidly caught up to (and it the case of smartphones, bypassed) Apple.

If this was true, they wouldn't be Mac or Linux users.

Basically, the grumbling that we see here is the precursor to an AppleTV announcement. People (paid or otherwise) start the cycle by whining about the current status quo.

  It doesn't matter that almost everyone has their TV (smart/dumb) hooked up to a cable/satellite box and probably a DVD/Blu-ray player for movies.

It doesn't matter that most people are interested in watching television on their television and aren't interested in tweeting or facebooking when using their TV.

What matters is that the situation is so terrible, that only the dead may know peace. There is no other solution. No Roku, no appletv, no smartTV. What we need is a new iproduct.

So your elegant solution is a $500-700 mac that you use to pirate all of the TV you watch?

Quit making excuses for your failure to comprehend something simple.

Your inability to use/manage Windows says more about you than it does about Windows.

Nobody cares about you, or the games you play/don't play.

The plural of anecdote is not data.

Wikipedia says shut the fuck up.

My nvidia history is this:

Geforce 2 Ultra - 2000, still in operation, zero issues
Geforce 4 Ti4400 - 2003(?), zero issues,removed and replaced.
Geforce 6800 - 2004, still in operation, zero issues
Geforce 8800GT G92 - 2007, replaced fan/heatsink in 2010ish, still in operation

With a track record like that, why would I take a chance on an ATI card?

Intel does.

If you click/tap on the compass arrow, it will re-orient.

Yes, its about time that Americans caught up to the rest of the world by getting an American phone on the 4th largest carrier that has 1/3 the subscibers of ATT or Verizon. Its especially rich that you linked the to a site in the UK where they only got 4G in October of this year.

You stupid fuck.

linux, ha

Basically, Windows 7 is great and there aren't super compelling features or changes that warrant an upgrade, yet. If Windows 7 sucked like Vista or ME, then there would have been more of a drive to upgrade.

It doesn't really matter though. New computers are being bought and sold all the time and the transition to 8 will continue. It certainly isn't an upgrade that has people running out to buy boxed copies, but when people decide its time for a new computer, they'll make the switch.