Today you can order a XPS13 off dell.com which will come with Microsoft pre-loaded.

I hate Windows as much as the next guy, but if they're bundling a $250B company with each XPS laptop purchased, even *I* want to get in on this promotion!

My second choice is ncixus.com

The next election is a long way off. This is the time for Harper to implement these unpopular measures. They'll be out-of-mind for voters 3 years from now.

Moderate or pragmatist? No party affiliation for these poor souls in the U.S. but no ALL Americans have gone off the deep end...

For single socket stuff that isn't too performance sensitive, AMD has the additional advantage that cheap consumer level boards support the otherwise expensive enterprisey features of ECC memory. If you care about that sort of thing, then getting a Phenom II is much cheaper than a 1 socket Xeon.

Phenom II is almost completely gone from the channel now, have you run the numbers or done any performance testing with the AMD FX- line?

Our JBoss/MySQL-based app server is one application where Phenom II indeed performed as well or better than i7. Testing on a new 8-core FX system we just got in made an improvement much higher than I expected over Phenom II.

17" gaming laptop (bought on Canadian Boxing Day sale) vs. 13" ultraportable

Apples and oranges.

Who's up next with their contrived comparison?

I don't put much faith in any what any software that ends in -mark tells me. Show me the real-world performance please! Preferably using DB or server software or my company uses.

Seagate is shipping 3TB drives composed of 3 x 1TB platters (as of about Nov of 2011) I don't see why a 4x1TB platter design should be far off.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5042/seagates-new-barracuda-3tb-st3000dm001-review

Pretty excellent drive, it's a shame they lowered the warranty to a not-at-all-acceptable 1 year term :(

Congrats for your excellent record on human rights guys! Now tell me where was the flash, RAM, PCB, modem, antenna, LCD, etc, etc, etc were made.

Don't forget the West Coast Shaw and Telus duopoly.

If the level of competition in the Vancouver area is any sign of what a duopoly can be, bring it on!

I live in Ontario, where our duopoly just teamed up to buy the Toronto Maple Leafs and the CEO's appeared at the news conference looking like best friends. It seems not all duopolies are created equal.

False.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/23/dining/23pout.html

I like DisplayPort's chances, more than anything because of its royalty-free-ness.

It's finally getting some market penetration in monitors and video cards too. It took a while for that ball to get rolling, but it finally is.

How many high-end boards have you looked at? I can't find a single one that *DOESN'T* have a 9-pin connector on the board (usually labelled COM). Just attach one of these

Also, get a load of this: Floppy port on a current-gen gaming board! What'll they think of next?

Of your 3 sentences, two are true and one is false.

I've never heard dual-link DVI called a pain in the ass before, and I've been using a 30" monitor for years. Please do go on...

The fear is legit. Huawei for one is sneaking up while nobody is paying attention.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/rob-magazine/huawei-will-china-conquer-the-world/article2243928/