I'm not sure if you were teasing him, but DECS is Daniel Eran Dilger and RoughlyDrafted is his site. His ludicrously pro-Apple comments and site-pimping should be a hint.

Did you miss the part in the summary and article where they are talking about the full versions of Windows 7? I know, who the heck buys the full version? But you compared the UK full version price to the US upgrade price. Here's how it should look:

* Win 7 ultimate (amazon UK), £170 = $280
* ditto (amazon US), $320

Funny, but I find it flabbergasting that Apple still does not allow non-server versions of OS X to run in a virtual machine, even on an Apple machine:

• "being able to run a virtual machine version of your desktop OS is a very useful capability. Unfortunately, for those of us who use non-server versions of OS X, we won't be able to do this (unless we're willing to pay for OS X Server, of course). Unlike the server license, there was no change in the OS X client license with the release of 10.5. As such, neither Parallels or VMware will allow the installation of OS X client on their upcoming products, respecting the terms in Apple's license agreement."

And it will cost $169 (the same price as previous Box Sets). A great deal, but it's not the $29 OS-only option that Leopard users get.

From Apple's OS X specs page:

• Upgrading from Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger.
  If your Intel-based Mac is running Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger, purchase the Mac Box Set (when available), which is a single, affordable package that includes Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard; iLife '09, with the latest versions of iPhoto, iMovie, GarageBand, iWeb, and iDVD; and iWork '09,

• "Welcome, IBM.
  Seriously."

Was Apple being smug? Classy? Cocky? Naive?

It looks like Palm/Sprint have you both beat. Every Sprint plan for the Palm Pre comes with the TeleNav-provided Sprint Navigation bundled for free.

The iPhone 3G was released 11th of July 2008. Re-read your own link.

Also, Apple's fiscal 3Q 2008 ended on June 28, meaning that quarter only included sales of the "iPhone EDGE" which everyone knew was going to be replaced by 3G in a few weeks. That initial surge of iPhone 3G sales was booked in Q4.

Fiscal 3Q 2009 ended June 27. Those first eight days of iPhone 3Gs sales (long lines, good availability, more countries than iPhone EDGE) were booked in Q3.

I'm no conservative, but I pity the confused person who thinks Michael Moore is not dishonest.

Maybe not technically lying, but you are being dishonest (Michael Moore style) by not mentioning that "last years quarter" included only a few days of iPhone 3G sales (released at the end of June) in fewer countries than this year. This year, the new iPhone was released in early June in more countries.

1. Windows 98 Upgrade will upgrade Windows 3.11.
2. Windows XP Upgrade will upgrade Windows 98.
3. Any upgrade version of Windows 7 will upgrade any version of Windows XP.

So that's great news for all you folks running Windows 3.11 on at least a 1 GHz CPU and 1 GB RAM ;-)

Seriously, Microsoft has generous upgrade paths. Upgrade editions of Windows 7 will even work on Windows 2000.

For those who haven't heard, CCleaner ("Crap Cleaner") is a very good utility that removes that crap left behind.

I think reasonably careful Windows users (don't run as Administrator all the time or install mysteryware without Googling it first) should be able to keep their system snappy with CCleaner.

I don't think it's relevant enough for the front page, since Gigabyte released their first "touch-screen tablet netbook" a year ago.

Gigabyte has since released an updated 10.1" model, so potential buyers should know that ASUS isn't the only curent player in this netbook sub-category.

Exactly. I'm guessing Darinbob is confusing "freedom of speech" (which is not applicable to private organizations like Wikipedia) and "censorship."

I think I get his point, though. I can't stand it when some nimrod claims their "freedom of speech" is infringed by some non-governmental entity.

• Update, 5:00 p.m.: A Microsoft representative said late Tuesday that the company has decided to extend the period for which Windows 7 machines will be eligible to downgrade to XP. Rather than a six-month window, as originally planned, the window will extend to either 18 months from the Windows 7 launch or until the release of the first service pack of Windows 7, whichever comes first.

Even if SP1 comes first, that will be at least a year after Windows 7 is released (as you predicted). Of course, if enough big customers complain when the deadline is looming, they'll probably extend it again.

You mean the GTX 280M is not based on the desktop GTX 280, but the previous-generation 9800/8800? Death to NVIDIA!

I'm kidding, of course, but this is a long-time pet peave of mine. The GeForce4 MX was based on GeForce2 technology. The Radeon 8000 was not a DirectX 8/OpenGL 1.4 GPU like the rest of the 8000-series. This shit continues today with these NVIDIA mobile GPUs.

Your link says nothing about the GPU in the Ion chipset (GeForce 9300) helping Flash video in any way (it doesn't). Yes, we all know Ion's GPU accelerates the codecs used in Blu-ray (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2), but the Atom has to do all the work when it comes to Flash (and it sucks).

Here's a much better link that explains how the Atom (single and dual core) does with Flash on the Ion platform at different resolutions: Zotac's Ion: The Follow Up - Watching Flash Video on the Ion

Summary: single-core Atom on Ion is insufficient for playing Hulu video at 480p in its default window (not full-screen). At full screen, even a dual-core Atom-on-Ion is insufficient for playing 480p Hulu video.

OTOH, Atom-on-Ion works surprisingly well with Blu-ray. Pretty impressive full such a low-power, fanless system. It would seem like the perfect HTPC platform if Flash playback didn't suck.