I surely hope NOT, as that would break any web site that uses JSON, Google-hosted scripts, etc.

If you live in a major U.S. city -- New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, etc -- then yes, 80k is barely adequate to own a small condo in the city and perhaps a decent used car. I speak from experience on this.

80k/year could afford a nice lifestyle in a small town, but for major markets it's not that impressive.

I am a former NoScript user and have found a decent replacement in YesScript -- although I hardly ever need to use the blacklist functionality.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4922

Ah - but to really make this on-topic:

Commodore 64:

2 second boot time

8KB loaded from ROM

1 process

38911 Bytes free

HD Footprint: N/A

Clearly the C64 is the winner in terms of boot time and resources consumed!

"Gay" is not a substitute for the word "stupid."

Thank you Bon Scott.

Anybody remember "boot" magazine? They were kind of a computer power user magazine in the late 90's. One month they ran a feature on alternative operating systems, and included Debian 2.0 on their demo disc.

I managed to get it installed and dual-booting with Win 95, although I never got X working. Played a little Nethack and some light programming but didn't really touch Linux for a couple more years. Later I dual booted Red Hat 7.0 and SuSE 8.0, finally went Windows-free with Mandrake 9.1.

After that it was Fedora, then Gentoo, then Ubuntu - which I'm currently running on my desktop and netbook.

My heartfelt thanks to Linus, Stallman, and all the people who make open source possible and successful.

The C128 and Amiga actually had quite nice keyboards. They had a good feel, although quiet. My current keyboard (Kensington from the early 2000's) is pretty close with regards to that feel.

I did own a Model M keyboard at one point and thought it had a good feel also, but the clicking was a bit annoying. To each their own, eh? In some ways I wish my PC keyboard had the layout of the C128, with " being on Shift-2 instead of next to the Enter key.

Maybe fanatical Mac users are just really annoying, for example this Falcon guy has replied to just about every thread in this story. Give it a rest fella, we all know how you feel!

As another data point, I have also had trouble with Apple hardware. I purchased a new and slightly overpriced 12" G4 Powerbook in 2005, but soon after the warranty expired the trackpad stopped working.

After taking the machine into the "genius" bar, I was informed that the trackpad would need replacement to the tune of $200. Being an economical sort, I ordered the part through a vendor and replaced it myself. Surprise, it didn't fix the issue. Apparently the trackpad issue was really a problem with the motherboard, and I wasn't about to replace that. In the end, I sold it because a subcompact without a working trackpad was useless to me.

Long story short, I'll stick with cheap, reliable hardware and run Linux on it.