Now Greek slaves have University Degrees and a minimum wage of 340 Euros. Try beating that.

Well, this is happening here in Greece for the last year. OTE the main telecom company owned by Deutsze Telecom has been implementing a similar semi-open wifi to the subscribers by using their 2nd SSID on their latest routers. The architecture is based on a mixed firmware, partly OTE custom depending on router (ZTE, Huawei) and partly on a FON (la fonera) rural network setup. The service itself is free of charge (for the time beeing) as long you opt in and have a valid A/VDSL account. It has a 2Mbps, 1Gb cap by default on each connected account that successfully connects throught the captive portal. Most customes don't even know how to use it.

If i got this straight, microsoft will push the OS upgrade through windows update, and after the installation will check for a valid 7/8/8.1 licence key and activate Win10 with that. So, if i need to do a vanilla installation of Win10, will i be able to download the iso and use my valid 7/8/8.1 licence key without any problems? Or is it a one way path where you need to do a vanilla of 7/8/8.1 and then do an OS upgrade through winupdate?

He bought a Clevo..... Hahahahahahaha.... Can't....... stop........ laughing.....

Lol.... Have you even considered that second grade electronics such as the ones used by clevo and rebranded all over the world (here in Greece by Plaisio - Turbox budget laptops) won't last more than a year and a half TOPS running full throttle on games. I run a small IT business and daily i deal with people beeing fooled by computer super markets into buying Clevo and shit. Never beeing happier (businesswise) when i have one of those on my bench, it's easy money reflowing GPUs. Not that higher grade laptops are better, cheap HPs (G series) are a waste of money due to overheating, Acer has long forgotten how to make a proper laptop and the list goes on.

with fries on the top? In other words, i would be happy to give it a try on common intel platforms instead of buying overpriced shiny hardware. But as all things Apple does, this time they think that its easier for them to charge for the privilege to outsource/push beta testing to the early adopters.

In XP i could grab the quickstart bar, drag it on the top, fill it with app shortcuts and autohide it, something that i have missed in 7 and replaced it with VAIOGATE.

Well, you're partly right, but as far as I know there is no way you can be 100% sure for the reliability of a regular hdd. I've seen barracudas stuck into oblivion, deathstars clicking the hell out of order, and wd drives with fried boards. I can go on with the box full of failed drives I have in my shop. Anyway, hardware failure is common nowadays with the ever so cheaper components manufacturers use, so another 2 c of advice is backup regularly and hope for the best.

I'm writting this on my third OCZ SSD on this machine which i use in a daily basis. The first one died about 6 months from the day of installation while the refurb OCZ sent me as a replacement died on the first two boots. The third (second replacement) is still ok running on the second month of operation. On the other hand i have installed two years ago on my main work machine an Intel SSD which is running 24/7, 365/12. I'm pretty s is. ure that whoever has used a cheap ass SSD such as OCZ will have a similar story to tell. My two cents of advice is if you want reliability do a research first and buy the most reliable drive currently on the market, preferrably Intel.

My first iMac G3 as a coffee table at my tech shop, a couple of Amigas and commodores at the shop's retro corner. Still brings nostalgia to some of my clients.

Well, the actual opposite is Kythera, you insesitive clod... learn ur geography first and then get off my lawn!