More like 1500ms of braking time (it is likely the child / dog running into the road is an unexpected event so reaction times are *much* slower).

Vostro, Latitude and Precision are the business line laptops (in increasing order of build quality / reliability). Inspiron, XPS and Alienware are the end-user / domestic lines (again in increasing order of build quality).

Just with appalling battery life :(

Assuming a decent cable then my Nexus5 will do that when switched off, and almost as quickly in airplane mode. With a crap cable my Nexus5 will take 6 hours when switched off. Apple seem to have better control over how they charge, and the cables, as my previous iPhone5 would nearly always recharge in that time no matter what. I much prefer the Nexus though (and I'm generally an Apple-first guy... prize my Macbook Pro off me at your peril...)

I'd like to know how you get most of the week without a charge. I bought two for my parents that they barely use and they are rarely able to get over a day out of them without a charge. All they really use is limited gmail and phone / SMS.

I suppose turning a Mac on with Command+Option+R pressed down is a little quirky. Not sure of many other machines that will let you reinstall the the OS completely from the Internet even after a hard drive replacement so easily though. And 'update all' on a Linux distro typically updates far more than the operating system - stuff breaks all the time when updating applications on any platform.

I found their language courses incomprehensible too...

The UK isn't 240V, it is 230V. As previous commenters have stated, the tolerances are different in the UK and the EU, but they are all based around 230V now.

https://www.gov.uk/government/...

Why would you keep a 486 CPU on its own - surely the whole system would be more use if you went to the trouble of keeping the rest of the documentation?

Somehow I think the capture technology is more important for that use case than the display technology...

Most people don't realise that the Kronos is just a dual core Atom PC either (and an old one at that) - pretty incredible when you compare it to the CPU hog VST market.

No, he was German - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.... Or were you thinking of this guy? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H...

So given the choice of a car coming towards you and a cyclist in your direction you'd crash into the cyclist?

Perhaps you missed it, but clearly $3,300 isn't enough - http://slashdot.org/story/13/10/17/2337204/british-nhs-may-soon-no-longer-offer-free-care. Partly because much of the NHS is already stealth privatised no doubt though.

Citing the Daily Mail? Really?