Chromebooks point out one crucial thing - people don't use their computers for very much. If you have a browser and some apps that are browser like, such as social media then you can cover 99% of what people actually buy computers for.

I've been dicking around with Chrome and lightweight Linux on a netbook for months - looking for something to replace XP when it goes away. All these systems and distros are, at a high level, more or less the same thing. From "Cloud Based OS's" to Mint to Xubuntu to all the others. And while they purport to have about 40-45 thousand apps to install among them, it's like the apps catalog on Google Play albeit with fewer games. Once you get past the media players, the DVD burners, the office apps you hit the bottom of the barrel or the wall or whatever you call it. About all that's really missing is a good suite of 4G drivers and the ability to make your machine a wireless access point. So if you're a PC application maker you should be seriously looking to change your business or sell your company because in a year you will be a niche business, a corporate provider or dead.

SIX seconds? Are you kidding me? I've forgotten what I was doing after 3. A hundred and 40 chars? Get real. The next twitter will be 30 chars or less or just a weird sonar-like animal noise.

Smarter Motherfucking Planet, My Ass. Company is run by executive pirates who work for themselves and only themselves. Ginni Rometty is this century's John Akers.

Problem solved. France is now in that elite group of evolved countries of Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Iran, China, North Korea, Malaysia, Zimbabwe and Belarus.

Kiss Noise.

Sorry but in the real world if your cashier rings up the wrong price it's your loss. Suck it. Suck it hard. Deeply. With commitment.

I am shocked, shocked I tell you.

Fire all the engineers and make Apple a patent troll!

That is all.

It's impossible. Great for dealerships though as you will be required to have all the 'work' done by them, and by 'work' we mean large scale replacement of body panels replete with specialized welding equipment that none of the slacktards know how to use.

They've had years of advanced notice. Do something or don't do something. But stop whining about it.

Here's an idea, just stay out of my way, State of California, thanks.

Then you both have crappy Internet connections. It is easy to say, "what are you complaining about, it's fine" when you've never had a good connection.

I said whining and I did it in an extremely condescending way, because the whole premise of the article is 'how will I ever survive on 1.5mbps.' It wasn't, 'this kind of sucks but oh well.' The article is whining like a little bitch for having speeds comparable to most of the rest of the US.

my home which has 150 down, 65 up

That's it? How ever do you manage, I would die if I was ever constrained so much. BTW you seem to be under the impression I've never used faster.

It's not really needed anymore. Just make sure you run MSE or something similar.