Cheap, reliable, does what I need it to.

Early adopters sometimes want things to be 'quirky' (see Prius, Linux...), but generally mass market does not. These tiles may not be the most efficient but they will get people to say 'Hey I wouldn't mind these on my roof'.

Very handy (no pun intended) good battery life, only has a few functions but does them well.

Actually, no I don't and that's why I don't use any *nix anymore. After years of dealing with BSD and others, I like a system where I don't have to build or configure every last item that I need to do my job. Linux is great for servers and all kinds of backends, but as a desktop day to day usage OS I hate it and having to maintain it.

I don't blame Akamai at all and it sounds like Krebs doesn't either. There were a ridiculous amount of resources used on the attack and that shit gets expensive to block.

My work machine is 8.1 and all three of my home machines are 10. I've gotten to a point in my life where screwing around with OSes isn't fun anymore and takes up up time I don't want to spend on it. So just using ones that have the software I need and don't have to build stuff specially is the goal.

I have used many types of *nix in the past, but I'm lazy now and can actually afford to pay for stuff.

Frell the others.

If they're brandishing they're not a good guy. Brandishing means to draw and display to give the impression of intent to use.

Goddamn he's still nuts.

I have a PC emulator on my phone and have both 95 and 98SE volumes on it just to mess with people.

and paid too much.

First terminals I ever used for 'real' work were a DECWriter, an NCR portable, and a Silent 700. Running through a timesharing system and loading and saving programs on paper tape and cards.

AMD Phenom 3.5 (I think that's what's in it right at this moment)
8GB RAM
Radeon 7730
A bunch of Samsung 850 Pros
Win 8.1

I got my techphobic mom an SIII and she hasn't had any issues with it (I would have heard the instant there was any hint of a problem). She doesn't have anything but the basic ggogle/android apps installed and all the Samsung bloatware removed.

Easily the best ever.