Getting kinda old though

$1000? Upgrade? I find it hard to find the hardware that does not meet the recommended requirements.

That's disgusting! I can't stand when people lick fingers, eat buggers, bite nails or chew on their earwax, but that is a new top!

I like games. New and old. Small and big. I am a consistent Linux user, but I almost never use Linux for gaming. My home desktop is Windows, that got most computing power of all my machines and is used mainly for gaming. If I need to work on something I fire up Linux (or whatever I need) in VM (thankfully VMWare supports multiple monitors quite well, and graphic support just keeps getting better and better) and do all my work from there.

In the office I've got the opposite situation. My main workstation is Linux and I run Windows in VM when I am programming something Windows specific.

All of my laptops run Linux, since I've always considered gaming on a laptop to be a torture. Small time-killing games are Ok, but any serious gaming is terrible.

Most of the games that I am waiting for are Windows only (new Hitman, new Bioshock, new GTA) and I do not expect them to support Linux any time soon. However I try to support developers who develop games for Linux by buying them, but this is mostly small indie games.

Bottom line is as long as there are Windows-only games I want to play, there will be Windows on my system, and it is not going anywhere. If there is a game I must have on some other platform, it is likely that I will get that platform. I have couple xBoxes 360 and PS3. I have bought PS3 because only of one game (it actually collects dust since then). I do not have Wii though, and have no plans on getting one since the games just never seemed appealing to me, and I am not of Nintendo grown population. All my friends had consoles, my family had computer in my childhood.

This is so reminds me of D-Link home routers:

I really wish so. And I really hope that they will keep up the work and not abandon the project like some others did with other Linux ports.

I disagree. I've had enough bad experience with closed-source auto-updating debian packages! (I look at you, Guitar Pro!)

The ideal case would be a tarball (almost all linux gaming publishers do that). Why would they limit themselves to the crapbuntu is unknown to me, but my guess to spare time on user support. Oh well.

Sure, if you prefer guys

Sounds terrible for multi-monitor environment. What I want as a gamer is seamless windows switching from fullscreen to desktop, possibility to simultaneously see my other windows on other monitors and game in full screen on the separate one, but still be able to minimize (I often use an monitor to display stats, chats, manuals, random news, even movies if the game is turn-based or not so engaging).

I should be able to decide how many monitors, and at what resolution I want to dedicate to the game and how many I want to use for my personal needs. I feel that many of proposed solutions are too short sighted.

I've had a completely different experience in Britain (and yes, they do touch you, and almost everyone else), much worse than what I had in USA. I live in neither of them. As for the pat-down -- it is much cheaper, more reliable and can detect non-metal/odorless objects. It is irritating but I do not see what the big deal is. As for the protests to scans/checks, I personally think that the security check line in an airport is the worst place to try to exercise your rights to protest. It gives an impression that you have something to hide. It also encourages other visitors to non-cooperative behavior. Arresting people in such situations is the correct response in my opinion. If you want to complain: complain afterwards, not during.

Looks like someone has stepped on it...

Could as well just round up to 150 Gm