I just looked at the ToS, you have to be at least 13, which many, if not all, 8th graders would be. This is per the Registration and Account Security section, line 5.

Waking up, thinking about all the poor bastards who have to work, rolling over and sleeping an hour or so more, looking at online deals to see if anything's good. I don't buy anything. I almost thought about a new gaming PC from Cyberpower, but I could still build it myself cheaper from Amazon thanks to Prime, and get it faster anyway, even if I'd opted to drive to Cyberpower and pick it up. Thought about a set of HD 201's, but they're still on sale anyway, and not that expensive ever.

I used a Dimension E520 over the summer with a P4 HT and 256MB of RAM. It did okay with Ubuntu, though it was a bit of a dog even compared to the machine that died and led to it being used, which was a Pentium D with 1GB of RAM. I dropped in the GPU from the other machine since the MB died, which made it more usable because the IGP wasn't taking up the system memory any more.

It can be upgraded. You just have to take it apart.

Fair point, and I certainly would not be opposed to a policy like that. I'd love to be given $1000, as a college student who has almost no money, and not much in the way of job prospects in my area. I'd really probably end up using it to pay for classes/books, though I'd be severely tempted to blow it on a new PC.

$1002 doesn't go real far. You know what I'd do if they gave me that amount of money? Buy a new computer and play more video games.

I needed a USB SD card reader, and the cheapest BB had one for was $20. I said fuck it, I'll wait two days and get it from Amazon with Prime for a couple dollars. Ended up gettting one that works just great for $5. I didn't have to pay 10% tax on it either.

The VAIO Z has a Thunderbolt type thing, but it uses the USB interface design for the connector. It basically does the external GPU thing, just with a moderately powered mobile GPU.

I got a DV6, and it will hold me over for game until around January/February, while I wait for new CPUs and GPUs in order to build a gaming box. It plays TF2 just fine on my 1440 x 900 monitor, and BC2 as well, on ~medium. It's more than fast enough for anything else I want to do for the most part, even working with video. That 2GHz CPU is almost always at at least 2.4-2.5GHz, even if I run Folding@Home or other heavily threaded stuff on it.

It's been a slow news week, really. That's why this is newsworthy. Plus, who doesn't love a little Minecraft, and therefore, Notch.

that's fuckin' useless. wow...

No "I don't have servers :( " option...

I think he was kidding, bro. In case you didn't know.

Sony...

From personal experience, that's where the main problem probably was. Vista was pretty bad though, as well. I really like Win7, and I had some not awesome experiences with Mac OSX at my old school with 10.5, the machines were constantly hanging on stuff as simple as running a web browser and MS Word. I am strongly considering an Apple notebook as my next notebook computer, because I would like to have access to all the major OS platforms.

I don't love Apple, but I think they're okay, I don't love MS either. I'm not surprised that AAPL has gotten richer than MS, they make a pretty penny on hardware sales, and iTunes is the biggest music buying platform out there. I personally don't know anyone who doesn't use iTunes at least part of the time when they buy music.

I don't know a lot of people who still use XP at home, and I only know one person who for sure still uses Vista, simply because it's fine for him, and he doesn't care enough to upgrade for the ~$100-150 it would cost him. One of my friends is a diehard XP fan, but he finally switched to 7 when his dad got him a RAM upgrade and new GPU for christmas, and then got the family pack of Home Premium upgrades at Fry's. He wouldn't have bothered if he didn't want to use more RAM or hadn't gotten 7 essentially for free.