Or the old Navy trick: keep one sock under your mattress. Replace it when it can stand up on its own.

My RT-N16 is nice (and with Shibby's mod, I get nice extras like an OpenVPN server & client) but I'd get something with 5 GHz support if you can afford it.

...seriously? You're posting a quote from thirty years ago in the computer industry as if it matters today?

Tomato itself is no longer maintained, but there are several mods out there. I use Shibby's mod for my Asus RT-N16.

Oracle can't figure out how to charge $5000 per CPU per year for Java, so it's not really interested.

My Macbook 2,1 is from June 2007 and it tops out at 10.7.5, not 10.9. The limiting factors are the firmware (32-bit EFI) and the video chip (Intel 945 chipset), both of which are unsupported in 10.8 and newer.

Works with newer Linux, though, so I'm not totally out of luck.

In before all the hipsters posting that xkcd comic.

Dress sweat pants are a thing, which I know only because of Facebook.

Vim's available for Windows, it looks a lot like Gvim.

We'll /all/ be paying for it, which internalizes the costs and incentivizes cleaner alternatives. Our grandchildren shouldn't have to suffer extreme climate change because people like you are selfish.

Never mind that the electricity might be made with coal, which itself results in millions of tons of mine tailings, contaminated rivers, et al, to say nothing of the pollution and radioactivity caused by burning it.

That's... wow. To have the money to throw away on a partially-completed factory like that.

Leia is a Disney princess now.

Tech Report generally has good recommendations: http://techreport.com/review/2...

I don't build computers at work - we buy preassembled Dells or Apples - and my last de-novo build at home was in April 2011 not long after Sandy Bridge was released. My i5-2500K chip is fast enough (OC'd to 4.3 GHz on air) that I don't think I'll want an upgrade for a long while yet, and the only minor upgrade that system's received is a newer video card. At some point, budget permitting, I'll switch in an SSD for the boot volume.