Trash talk. It's likely that the Core 2 Duo machine just had a slow 5400 rpm hard drive. Windows 7 will work smoothly even on an Intel Atom with all updates installed.

90 minutes is what I get from a crusty used laptop acquired from eBay. But we have moved into a world where 5 hour battery lives are not unreasonable to expect from new machines.

Also glossy displays, hard-to-repair assemblies, dust accumulation. Apple should be the "you pay to get a product in which everything is perfect" brand, but there are still glaring deficiencies from an engineering standpoint.

Hehheh...it looks similar to the jetpack in the Simpsons episode Sky Police (S26E16).

It's odd how companies like Microsoft get criticized a lot about their malice and monopoly position, but Cisco gets a free pass even when they are the dominant player in enterprise networking gear. Why is this? I'm sure that even this message goes through mountains of Cisco hardware when I send it.

Oh, right. I forgot Linux users, who cannot reliably know if their double-click actually performs the desired function or not.

How about a huge array of LEDs for all IRQ lines?

Just get a 1920x1080 screen and put Twitter rolling on the side.

You mean a HDD light? Then why not an USB light, CPU light or RAM light?

Relative to C# or Java, for example.

Raw pointers and arrays can be avoided when writing C++. Smart pointers and vector are the alternatives.

Especially now that Steam is on Linux, are there any big cool games that you play or at least have tried?

It remains true that we cannot have well informed discussion about the paper if we can't get everyone to easily access it for free. Are we really going to arrange it so that everyone goes to the library to acquire their copy? Too complicated.

I have noticed this as well. The culture of releasing proper, polished products seems to be still alive in Japan.