I hear you, but there are valid reasons for driving a '55 Chevy. I'm a 2000 Civic guy myself, but old cars are pretty, and if mechanic-ing is your thing, Godspeed.

Less confident that's the case here, though. I haven't tracked Intel names for a while now, but got bored/curious, data Wikipedia except for one:

Bloomfield / Bloomfield Xeon: 4c/8t, running 2.4-3.3GHz, produced '08-'11.
Clarksfield: Mobile Quad i7, 1.6-2.0GHz base, 3.2 turbo. 45W TDP, produced '08-11.
Gulftown: 6 cores running 3.2-3.4GHz, production started in '11
Harpertown: Quad core, 2-3.4GHz, produced '07-present
Jasper Forest: Quad core, 1.7-2.4GHz, produced '10-present
Penryn: Mobile C2D, 2-4 cores, 1.2-3GHz, produced '07-'11
SoFIA 3GR: (Intel page) 2W TDP, 1.1GHz Atoms, and that's enough about that
Wolfdale: 2 cores, 2.5-3.5GHz, produced '07-'11
Yorkfield: Quad core, 2.3-3.2GHz, produced '07-'11

What in there is worth the time to refurbish? Bloomfield/Gulftown, we'll talk, maybe, but it would literally have to drop into my lap, come in a fully functioning box, and I'd have to invent a task for it. Even then, finding memory/cards/etc. would be problematic, and you're definitely stuck on USB 2.0. At best. No, I'm not doing the research.

I can see why folks are getting their shorts in a bind, but let's pump the brakes a little bit, anyway. I dunno. Probably just another "Yeah, you're officially old now" moment.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt22...

I'm as suprised as anyone.

Best of the year? No. Fun? You betcha.

Make them the expensive ones. No shade, just saying.

Actually:

And, once you have either the XBone or PS4, the other gets pretty optional. Plus, any of them are cheaper than a top video card alone. (ballpark, anyway, not checking).

Yes, PC gaming is awesome, it's just less so at twice the HW cost.

Anybody got a rule of thumb for that? I swear I read once that things START getting profitable when domestic box office gets to 4x production costs.

Worldwide box office, I got nothing.

This happens more than you think. OSX, but I was trying to attach to my NAS, and Finder just wasn't cutting it. Dropped to a command line, and everything worked fine. Something about Samba v. AFS, IMS.

Occam's Razor: One of the beta testers tried to play FLAC. If you're Apple, now where are you? Gotta keep that "just works" thing going, but....

About @#%#ing time, IMHO.

I'm no chip designer, but wouldn't this destroy any current Apple offering short of the mostly defunct Mac Pro?

I mean, yeah, the i7 MBPs go up to 3.6Ghz, but the vast majority are dual core.

Nice to see the Planet Express guys getting work.

Three hours and 90-odd comments before this, and no Futurama? Hell, Bezos probably doesn't care about the costs, so long as he cures his crippling bone-itis.

Sweet bacteria of Liberia, what this place has become.

Bah, humbug, AND get off my lawn.

You know, I can't stand playing it IRL (allergies + being outside + "Four hours? Seriously?"), but I adore video game golf. My personal favorite it Hot Shots Golf. It looks completely ridiculous, but I swear, there's a decent little golf sim in there.

Mario golf is also pretty good, IMHO.

Way back, in The Long, Long Ago, on the Apple ][, there was a game called (I think) Balance of Power. It was actually a pretty good simulation of cold war diplomatic brinksmanship, by which you fought several proxy wars (Afghanistan, for instance) while trying to avoid driving the other side to launching their nukes.

Never worked, of course. You'd get antsy ("They'll never take Belgium!!!", or similar), and you'd get a disappointing "This is the end of the game, but we're not celebrating the fact that you destroyed the world." text screen.

And yes, I get the joke. Hell, I'm pretty sure I saw WarGames in the theater.

mckwant.

They probably are. My maternal grandfather was R/G colorblind, as am I. I have two daughters, and a geneticist said their sons are very likely to carry the gene.

Even worse, you have a situation where people with Kinects disconnect them. Then your Skype / NetFlix / "XBox Bing Whatever" experience gains a "hook up the Kinect" step, and the XBox One isn't the centerpiece of your living room rig any more.

http://xkcd.com/934/

My 70 year old parents have been running Mint for four years, largely without incident. It's on a dual core Atom / 2G / 80G. I kinda want to trash that box, but the damn thing refuses to break badly enough.

Note that just about any (grand)parental use case outside of browsing fries this implementation. The sole "major" issue we've had is when Dad tried to get Picasa going on Wine. I'm sure it's possible, but it was far simpler for him to install it on his Windows laptop.

My UID is too high to qualify, but speaking for my lowish-UID brethren, we take checks. Good bourbon and/or scotch will do nicely as well.

And should beta come to fruition, I will likely leave, ending a 15-ish year relationship with this site and its community. Really, just leave it as an option for anybody already signed up. (top gear) How hard can it be? (/top gear)