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I bought one to replace my wife's, guess what? shitty Dell laptop that kept bluescreening even after repeated clean installs of windows. I plugged the mini in back in September installed some software and turned it on. In 3 months I've rebooted it one time, and that's because I had to because of a weird microsoft office install problem. Expensive? yes. Reliable as hell and trouble free. yes. Worth the extra couple hundred bucks. Also, it runs very cool even with the internal power supply. We're going to replace it with an iMac at come point and I'm going to swap out the HD with a SSD and plug it into the TV. In my personal experience the only hardware as or more reliable than the Macs I've had are the IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad and comparable desktop machines. Reliable is not a word I'd use to describe Dells overall. I have had numerous dells over the years, and I currently have 4 in my possession. The 2 laptops are highly unreliable, but the 2 older desktops seem to be solid. I just purchased a poweredge server that I had to RMA because it had some weird problem where the network card would disconnect from the network randomly. It did this under both Windows 2008 R2 and RedHat...

Well, I just watched Tron Legacy in 3D last night, and I was aggressively underwhelmed by the effect, and distracted by the distortion caused by the glasses. Just because it's 60 years old doesn't mean it's mature. 3D is still IMNSHO a novelty. It has potential, but is a long way off from what I've seen personally. I have zero interest in wearing special glasses to watch movies in my home regardless of how much marketing Sony, Samsung, etc. shove my way.

Well, I don't know about the 150MPH, but a place to put my shotgun and a 6-pack is a must.

The DoJ under any administration seems to want to do what the administration wants it to do regardless of law.

Wild speculation on your part

I've got an iPhone and a Mac, and not one byte of my data is stored anywhere near Google's or Apple's servers. I see no indications that I will be forced to store my data on Apple's servers anytime in the future. I'm sure I will be able to, but I'm currently confident that I will have the choice. On the other hand the copy of MS Office I just installed REQUIRED me to register the software on line with Microsoft...

My immediate suggestion would be to put down the kool-aid

Engadget points out that the power connecters have different numbers of pins. I'd post a link if the fucked up javascript on this site would let me...

Jeff Atwood can suck my balls.

But without the red arrow and the circle I'd never be able to spot the explosion! The music was a nice touch too.

Not with a big enough rail gun. As an added bonus the rail gun can be used to shoot down invading aliens.

not anymore

Well, I still use the same random passwords I've been using since I graduated in 1986. Now get off my lawn.

Mod parent up. This article was, politely, fucking lame. I want the 2 minutes I spent reading the first page looking for good writing back.

Depends on where you live I guess. I had (presumably) a kid go through my truck and he took about $5 in change and a couple of cheap tools. The sheriff actually dusted my truck for finger prints and wrote up a report. Of course, they never caught the guy as far as I know, at least for this, but they took an interest and did investigate it. We work out of our house, so there is little opportunity for burglars to steal our stuff, but they're welcome to try. They can have their choice of 3.5" 00 buckshot, .357 magnum or SW .40. From their point of view I'd recommend the .40 - the .357 makes a very nasty exit wound and the buckshot just makes a one helluva big mess to clean up.

Fair enough. DVDs also work on most systems as well...