I think all the netbooks w/ Linux preinstalled got killed off pretty quickly since people mostly returned them.

The only place I know of that you might be able to get a preinstalled Linux netbook still is someplace like system76 or whatever it's called, that site that sells Ubuntu preinstalled machines

1) I think you meant "IE and Safari, not so much"

2) Safari is available on both OSX and Windows, though I don't know why anyone on Windows would use it. IE is the only major browser not available on at least two platforms.

Ok, I was thinking on the lines of the socket that isn't on it's death bed, LGA 1155. 1366 is going to die, though your point is accurate. I actually think they should have gone with the rumors on the hexacores, and had an i9 designation for >4 cores, though I guess that would get to really big numbers quickly if we made every product name only stand for a certain number of cores, since octocore is coming soon.

there are those who claim the quote about some not tasting death was fulfilled with the Tranfiguration, according to my NIV study Bible's notes in the bottom of the pages.

maybe MY stolen VAIO was used in the attack.

It was stolen randomly less than a week before PSN went down, coincidence, I think not.

/puts on tin foil hat

my personal philosophy is "Always be IPS-ing" I will never use a TN panel in anything other than a laptop ever again when I have the choice.

I know this is irrelevant to most consumers, but if I don't know the difference between a couple of Intel CPUs, I just take a quick trip to ark.intel.com and use the compare feature.

Intel should have kept the series named to at least something that would mean something:

Core i3 should be all the dual cores

Core i5 should be only quad cores without HyperThreading

Core i7 should be only quad cores with HyperThreading

Unfortunately Prey has not been of any help in getting my laptop back. :( It was stolen from my house while my mom was out on her day off running errands and I was at school. My best guess is that the person who stole it just nuked the windows install. I have a suspicion of who may be the perp, but no real evidence, we're waiting on DNA results that should come back 3-12 weeks from being collected. The machine was stolen almost a month ago, I doubt I will be getting it back, but I guess the good thing is that I will be replacing it with something a bit nicer, and not Sony, like the one that was stolen ~10 months after I bought it. Ironically, I had been trying to show my friend what Prey did, and was a little curious why it didn't have a report 20 minutes after I marked it as missing to show Prey off, then I got a phone call from my mom that the police were at the house and someone had put a brick through the sliding glass door.

The thing is that under our Constitution, they have every right to speak their mind. Some people would want to just ban the march altogether, but we can't because it would be prior restraint. We can't stop you from speaking your mind, but we can punish you afterwards if what you say/do warrants it. Just because you don't agree with someone doesn't mean that they are not entitled to hold their beliefs and speak freely about them. I personally can't stand it when people like the neoNazi groups feel that they should march and spread their hate, but there's nothing I can do about it, and they have every right to speak and assemble. I would hope that if someone disagreed with my views they would support my right to voice them.

so this is why tested.com is down...

My friend's dad works for MetroPCS, and they built a new tower in our area not that long ago. Before the damn thing ever even go turned on, someone broke in and stole all the copper wiring from it.

most PCs already ship with IGPs, this is the same thing, right? Joe Consumer doesn't know what the hell a graphics card is, or really any other component for that matter. Integrated Graphics is getting better, but 10 x 0 is still 0. All the new architectures coming out are including Graphics on them, so it's obvious that this would take off, given the huge number of PCs that don't ship with dedicated graphics anyway. The average person will pay more for a "better" CPU, even if they don't know what that means, but to them, the concept of a graphics card is too confusing to understand. The fact that the new 13" Macbook Pro is integrated only can only help this trend, because I'm sure that model will get the most sales, it's the first choice of every person I know going into college, as well as being more than adequate for most consumers.

I'm required to do something for this contest for my HS Graphic Design class. It is required for getting a good grade. I need the class in order to graduate. I don't really want to do it, but I have to... Google already provides me email, a phone number, and has access to my videos and some of my pictures, as well as providing the browser I'm writing this in. If you're out there watching, Google, I for one, welcome our GOOG overlords.

My friend and his brother both have monitoring software on their computers and another program that puts their machines to sleep at around 9PM. The one brother is over 18, the other is around 15-16. It sucks for them. I guess you get used to it when you can't call your dad "dad", but have to refer to him as Dr. (insert last name here) all the time, and he's the principal of you High School. I feel sorry for them. The parents couldn't figure out how to lock anything down to save their lives, but installing some mediocre software that is a slight system hog was not beyond their capability, unfortunately. Pretty sure they leave their WiFi wide open.

I know many teens who have a separate profile from the one their parents have access to. I wouldn't need it, but apparently some people do.