of a product that looks like it might fail is always a good idea. That way there is a clear reason for failure when it occurs.

to plow under with their idiotic designs and closed-source business model.

I never liked the Nook much anyway. If Microsoft gives Nook the kiss of death we might gain a little clarity in the book reader marketplace.

is a river in Egypt.

The stigma on Linux can't be any worse than the one that has settled on Windows 8.

Linux works and is the future, Windows is the past!

of so many horrible things. Why should treason be any less believable than any of the things we already knew about. He was a sad, sick megalomaniac who didn't give a fig about any one but himself. He became the archetype for the future republican party even more so than Reagan. Reagan gets the credit for the horrors these people have inflicted on this country simply because he was likable where Nixon was not.

that Nvidia support for Linux is first rate. I've been using Ubuntu with Nvida cards for years. If you've eliminated Nvidia from consideration I think you're cutting off your nose as it were.

I've recently converted a late 2006 vintage Macbook, 2Ghz Core 2 with 2Gb Ram, and it is also wonderful. Again, I'm running Ubuntu, and the Intel graphics and wifi work beautifully.

It is great to have so many options. We didn't have them in the past. I am about to build a new desktop PC and need to investigate fully before deciding on graphic support. Radeon needs a sniff since I am an AMD fan.

Anyone who says that linux isn't grown up is full of poop! After all, I just threw over OS X for Ubuntu on my laptop and I'm loving it!

Don't buy Microsoft.

Redmond sucks up so much money from consumers that hardware makers are almost forced to load all that garbage just to survive.

I won't deal with M$. Neither should anyone else who really cares about computing.

BUTTS! The need to move their manufacturing BACK TO THE USA. Doing business as they have been is immoral and simply greedy! The price difference between Apple and Android is going to eat Apple's lunch!

        I like Apple from a functional and software point of view, but continuing to abuse Chinese workers to ensure their massive profits has simply got to stop. Realizing this has caused me to have a lot less respect for Steve Jobs, the man who built Apple's current view of the world. RIP Steve, but maybe you should haunt Tim Cook to do the right thing.

You have to be kidding! This is like asking the fox to guard the hen house. Their only motive is profit and their top leadership is incompetent. For all of Javascripts problems, trusting Microsoft would be much worse. You might as well as developers to stab themselves in the eye.

We have yet another, the last, communist regime that doesn't give a rodent's rump about its people, despite their protests to the contrary. It is difficult to take China seriously as they run their country like one big capitalist enterprise but profess to hate everything capitalist.

all of which belies the fact that the phone is made by Foxconn, one of China's better known purveyors of junk.

Would that it weren't so.

how even Bill Gates gets to be right once in a while. After all, a stopped clock will always be right twice a day.

that foolishness is a universal virtue, and not confined to Americans like the followers of Sarah Palin,

a fellow named Edison found 10,000 things that didn't work before he found just one that did.

Think about it.

there were rules AGAINST media companies owning one another and cross-media ownership. It seems those days are gone forever. It is very sad that we are allowing so much power to concentrate in so few hands.