That's a long post by an AC, for sure.
 
It is a UK company that licensed the Chinese to manufacture unlimited copies. This is how all ARM chips are manufactured, under license. ARM Holdings does not have any manufacturing capacity outside of basic R&D.
 
The chips are so cheap because they're produced en masse, there's nothing shady going on here, besides the fact that the country put up the capital to kick start the project. Which isn't illegal anywhere. Mexico's petroleum industry was nationalized in the 1970's and it's worked out quite well.

Allwinner is the Intel of ARM chip these days, they're a Chinese National ARM chip manufacturer, they produce in volumes that allow them to get the chip in under $7 for the dual core models. The quad core models are pretty competitive as well. They're in pretty much every Hobbyist robotics kit (check out the PC Duino) and are quite reliable, and have been for years... I won't disagree that it's a silly name, but they did win basically the entire (all) of the low end Android market. So it's pretty accurate. Nobody else can compete on price.

bblean is a full explorer replacement, classic shell is an extension/skin of explorer

It's perfect for doing a webex/gotomeeting for a small business in a medium-dark conference room. I wouldn't buy a bunch of these for a large enterprise, but they're perfect for a small business of 5-6 people who use a conference room at least on a weekly basis, but don't want to invest in something more intensive.
 
Seems to project a 4' (48") image just fine:
 
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8a_82So4jE

He's asking for a free copy of windows to play vidya games on, not the opinion of some KVM spergelord on how it performs it's intended task of running VMs.
 
Currently installing KDE for Windows (apparently that's a thing), then I will see if I can get steam and direct X on here.
 
KDE for Windows installer link for those who are curious - http://download.kde.org/stable/kdewin/installer/kdewin-installer-gui-latest.exe.mirrorlist

Have you tried installing Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 (which is FREE), and then back in to it? It doesn't come with anything except powershell, task manager and a set of network drivers and features like NIC teaming, Storage Spaces, etc. and of course the Hyper V role installed.
 
As an exercise in futility I managed to get bbLean installed (explorer.exe shell, since the OS doesn't come with one), which allowed me to get Google Chrome and Steam installed, before I ran out of interest trying to get DirectX installed.
 
I think if you installed Cygwin you could get DirectX installed properly, or maybe just follow one of those "Gaming on Windows Server 2012 R2" guides. It's possible, but the artificial divide between server and desktop "class" drivers makes things more difficult.

That sounds about par for the course. Before the brand was purchased, they saw a 5% return rate across all of their drives, as high as 15% for specific models. What junk. I was shocked when I heard that they had been bought and rolled in to another company. It's going to be hard to overcome that kind of terrible reputation. There's a reason why no OEMs include OCZ drives in their offerings.

The average person has trouble diagnosing network problems on their home PC; programming a computer to do things it doesn't already do, or even scripting a sequence of events is beyond most people who aren't already in IT. Putting together a dashboard for ten or twelve of our critical processes is so far beyond most people in our company that the old one wasn't able to be maintained and I'm having to write a new one from scratch. Being able to see how things are put together, then rearranging them to meet your needs can be taught, but as a natural gift is actually rather rare, which is why we never got around to mechanical computers until the last 120 years or so.

Modern video compression is so good that 90% of users can't tell the difference between 720 and 1080p unless they were personally involved in the purchase of the display. Especially standing over 10' away.
 
Clearly the average user cares more about convenience over ultimate video quality, otherwise Sony wouldn't be announcing lower than expected demand for Blue Ray impacting their profits, and Netflix consistently announcing higher profits, earnings and customer base.

No, but in 10 years they will, and where will blue Ray be then? DVD is almost 20 years old at this point. College educated house wives already use Netflix through a PS3, the technology will trickle down. Right now you can get 720p resolution over cheap broadband, which is way cheaper than buying physical discs every month. What I'm doing now is cutting edge, but in five years time the trickle down effect will have 4k screens on people's Christmas shopping lists.

You have to draw a line in the sand for software update reform somewhere. Not supporting an OS that doesn't have a start button is a good place to draw a line in the sand. XP will end up as an odd duck of extended support, but this is a generally good direction they're taking.

More importantly, it's not that much better than Netflix HD streaming. heck in some cases (House of Cards, Orange is the new Black, Arrested Development) Netflix is better because they'll stream you 4K video if your TV (and connection) will support it. That's roughly 4x the resolution of 1080p, which I think is as high as standard Blu-Ray will go.
 
Also yeah, 90% of users Just Don't Care about owning a "collection" of shiny things that take up space and just want to watch their movie Now and then not worry about it when it's over.

While I'm happy for you and your luck so far, the hard numbers don't lie, one in 20 OCZ drives were returned over a two year period. Closer to 7 percent for particular models. Compare to half a percent for Samsung or Intel.

I don't know why you got modded down for pointing out that OCZ drives are utter trash, they've consistently outranked all of their competitors combined in number of returns since they came out. They were recently sold to another brand, but the damage to the brand has already been done. It's been known for years that OCZ = ticking time bomb. Nobody has complaints about quality drives like Intel and Samsung.

I hope you weren't using OCZ branded drives...