bazald

I can't wait to show Kurt [sic] this comment. Thanks for the laughs.

I call shenanigans. The 2nd contest was only 6 months later ;-)

@Iam9376

Today's high end hardware is low end a couple years from now. Even after my next upgrade (desperately waiting for a quad core notebook), I'll be shutting off services eventually to squeeze out every last bit of power, but you can bet I'll be running Vista a lot of the time. (Linux too, but gamedev has to be done in Windows for the most part...)

Holy hell. How many comments against this decision have I just read? I haven't seen this much anti-Google sentiment before.

If there is no option to disable Vista's search functionality, there should be one. (I haven't had the opportunity to use the operating system yet, so I can't say that there isn't one.) I say this because I want to be able to run a bare-bones system on low end hardware if I need to. Not because I would prefer to install Google's software, or anyone else's.

But really, these comments are a bit absurd.

50C? That is nothing! I'm running a P4 notebook that regularly sits at around 70C, getting as high as 75C when I'm doing something intensive.

I'm desperately trying to wait for a notebook with a quad-core CPU...

...and none of those options is actually there. 250 GB HDs, blu-ray drive, nothing. Forget this, buy elsewhere.

No, RAID 5 requires a minimum of 3 drives. Anyway, this is just a rebranded Clevo with some higher-spec options.

Indeed. That TDP makes it possible to see the first quad core notebook. AMD does it again!

VMWare Workstation 6 Beta isn't open source.

"maybe you can put those spare cycles to use by solving the traveling salesman problem"

That might be the funniest thing I've read on Engadget.