No specific model, but Intel and ATI both have excellent support under Linux. Go Intel if you aren't a gamer and don't need super heavy graphics support.

This is a freaking ad, and it's obvious now that someone at Apple is paying one of the editors (same goes for Microsoft), or they both have someone they employ who is an editor...can we please see stories that are actually news and not freaking ads, please?!?!???!?

I trust sleazy ad agencies more than I trust the US government. Too bad they don't obey the laws they force the citizens to themselves, especially those regarding privacy, since they need 5 petabytes to store every email and who knows what other web related data there in Utah.

Of course, you'll still have to follow the retarded rule about having a certain percentage be American parts if in America, but hey...AK parts kits are cheap and not that hard to build.

http://www.northeastshooters.com/vbulletin/threads/179192-DIY-Shovel-AK-photo-tsunami-warning

If I were to buy another laptop, I'd buy another ASUS Republic of Gamers. I have the 17" version from ~2 years ago, and it's ran linux out of the box extremely well since day 1 (barring control of the brightness of the keyboard backlighting).

It was also $1500, but it was an i7 2 years ago with 8gb ram that could be upped to 16...no complaints!

In all due seriousness, I heartily support your efforts...but a little fun is always a good thing!

https://xkcd.com/225/

Well, in terms of speech anyway. I don't think this would fly in the US unless some other corporate behemoth was the victim of the libel.

People will do what they want regardless of rules written on paper. While they may or may not be caught, and there may or may not be consequences, if someone is convicted to do something enough or desires it enough, a mere law isn't going to stop them. My morals won't really ever keep me from driving a car, even if I have to deal with a bunch of robot cars all around me...anyway, robot cars would make Nascar even more boring.

That's why Libertarians such as myself support such mass deregulation...and fewer taxes for that matter, since taxes anymore are used by the governments of the world to reward friends and punish enemies.

If it'd be possible to get the cost of windows removed, it'd be a good buy for a laptop...I don't want a red cent going to Microsoft.

Seriously...this doesn't matter much. How does this not get collapsed while the story above it about Netflix's open source failover tools getting released on github get does? WTF?

Pirate Cinema has this very thing...to get around it they use radar equipped bug zapping hats (with lasers, designed to kill mosquitoes) and modify them to zap cameras instead.

There were 1.5TB WD Green drives for $65...I just didn't want a slow green drive...and I heard they aren't as good for RAID.

By the way, my DeskStar has 5 year warranty...

Sale is over, but Newegg sold 1TB Hitachi DeskStars, which actually are reliable now (I have some that have been spinning nonstop for 2 years) for $60 apiece. That's around $0.058 per gigabyte before formatting...not bad at all. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822145304

Yes, while the regular price is $80, you've always had to get drives when they're on sale if you want a really good deal, anyway. Same actually goes for SSDs.

I wish nVidia would stop being so protective about it's API's and just work with nouveau. If there's a few bits here or there that must remain proprietary, they could release those with a nonfree license and make the rest open...I refuse to use something with no support for a framebuffer console.

Does it do sequential backups? I've been using duply + duplicity lately.