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$1000 for a computer that runs a 1.8GHz AMD dual core? ...................... I've got an $400 mATX PC that costed $400 using a sandybridge i3. One physical core from that thing has more processing power that entire unit, never mind hyper threads and the other core.

.................. AHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAAA!! And now we see just how much thought actually went into this law:

....and people wonder why I find New York distasteful.

...Again with the post PC era stuff?

A pity that Enterprise is is being retired now. Although apparently CVN-80's been confirmed to be her successor as the next Enterprise.

I've worked with ESXI now and then (and the full blown vSphere briefly). Installation is pretty easy. BUT and this is really important: You need another computer handy with the vsphere client installed on it in order to configure and manage the ESXI server, AFAIK you can't configure the machine locally, it has to be completely remote managed. Other notes: VMware lets you install ESXI into a VM with fairly respectable performance. This allows you to mess around with a esxi server without blowing things up first. Might also help to get your dhcp server and reserve a known address for the box you're going to install to; by default esxi pulls a dhcp address and I don't know how to set a static address at this point. And there is a way of virtualizing physical machines to VM's but I haven't played with it too much. http://www.vmware.com/products/converter/overview.html Sorry can't be more help. I like vmware a lot but my company forces us to use virtualbox a lot (which is really really sad... when you run more then one vbox at the same time the whole system starts to choke.... gotten to the point where I just bought workstation on my own and just use it whenever the bosses aren't looking).

That's cause they cheated a bit with the boot times. Initial boot's only marginally faster then your typical windows 7 install but microsoft decided to be a bit clever and then store some of the system state into the hiber.sys file when you shut down, not much different then using the hibernation state of windows 7. So it's not so much booting 'faster', you've just never really shut off your computer, rather you've just hibernated it. To be fair, it's quite a clever way of accelerating boot times. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/09/08/delivering-fast-boot-times-in-windows-8.aspx

We use DLink 4 ports at my current workplace. Other then being ugly no real complaints.

Really neat initiative...

I'm tempted to go for the dev preview, I can think of many useful productivity applications as well as entertainment. But with the number of people pledging for the SDK and hardware, will they really be okay? There's over 3000 pledgers for hardware, I don't know if they have the infrastructure or time to be able to put all those things together. :S Might be shooting themselves in the foot there.

I've come up with an even worse use; making and throwing away VM's at a ridiculous rate. The fact that you more or less don't have to worry about write performance anymore on a ram disk means more or less I'm building VMs from scratch in half the time it used to take, even just copying them. I think in the time I've had this I've made and discarded hundreds of linux and bsd vms, including one or two build VM's that are copied from HD to RD... sda ....at the rate I'm going 24gb really ISN'T going to be enough. :s I've already begun pricing out a 128gb xeon system to house all this shit... it's no longer a question on why I would ever use 128gb, it's become a question, how the hell am I going to be able to afford it (needing a redundant PSU, UPS, dual processor system that takes FBRDIMMs...) . I recommend no one ever go ram disks.... They make SSDs look cheap and are ever MORE addicting.

... I hate you.

...which confirms what I was saying. There is no 10 core desktop model, The Vishara FX 8350 is an 8 core model. Edit: the 10 core desktop model you're thinking of was Komodo which they announced in CES 2011 and then subsequently canceled in favor for Vishera. There was some speculation that the silicon yields would've been too low on 10 cores to make the venture profitable and in the end still can't compete with intel in the high end enthusiast segment. IIRC AMD is now focusing more on energy efficient processors to compete more in mobile computing rather then keep loosing money in the enthusiest market. In fact AMD just announced a fairly large license agreement with ARM.

Sorry to burst your bubble but AMD canceled Komodo last year along with Seprang and Terramar. The current Vishera roadmap points to 8 cores maximum for desktops. Only the Abu Dahbi in the G34 socket will have more then 10.

Looks like I might be right here: http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/microsoft-extends-windows-7-vista-support-10-years Windows 7 and vista will have a 10 year support cycle even though windows 8 is around the corner.

I can answer that fairly easily actually. Investors nowadays want very very very fast returns on their investments (think months or even weeks instead of the years it used to take for an investment to mature). Nowadays most of them are flocking towards the mobile app market and gambling with a large pool of small investments and quick turn around on whether the investment is profitable or not. Why gamble one a few big eggs when you can have 10,000 little eggs and who cares if half of them break? Hell, I'd be willing to bet that you won't find any investors that be willing to foot the upfront cost for developing a new 'big title' game anymore. If you haven't noticed all the upcoming games nowadays are franchises: Halo 4 Assassin's creed 3 Call of Duty: Black Ops II Tomb Raider (March 5th 2013 release) God of War: Ascension Resident Evil 6 New Super Mario Bros. 2 The Amazing Spider-Man Crysis 3 Guild Wars 2 Far Cry 3 StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm Medal of Honor Warfighter Borderlands 2 Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance DmC: Devil May Cry (Yes, with Dante) Gears of War: Judgment WWE'13 Hitman: Absolution Darksiders II Counter-Strike: Global Offensive BioShock Infinite Aliens: Colonial Marines Games that are not sequels: The Last Story Gravity Rush Lollipop Chainsaw Do you see the disparity? XD

128? ....... You fool. http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131814 + http://www.nextag.com/Crucial-32GB-DDR3-SDRAM-884984818/prices-html x16 512 GB is where it's at man...

Pft. http://ark.intel.com/products/53580/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E7-8870-%2830M-Cache-2_40-GHz-6_40-GTs-Intel-QPI%29 Yes... that's a decacore. On a single die.

cause the computer store had a sale.... Not quite sure what I'm going to do with all that yet. I will admit it's rather entertaining to have 10 VMs in the background while playing though...

Happy bday man

Would like to come back and play. Working 240 hours/month and then having to visit the parents weekly for 6 hours however says I need to prioritize time for laundry, showers, sleep, and food.

"I'm the general using this machine gun with fucking purpose!"

Tried it for a while in a virtual machine: 1) At it's core windows 8 is more or less windows 7; in fact you can seemlessly use windows 7 drivers in windows 8 for the time being. What they added primarily is ARM architecture support to make it mobile device compatable. Since I don't have a mobile device, this is more or less moot. 2) The metro UI is annoying to be sure. Not unworkable but for people with multiple monitors it's interface is going to be clunky at best. Most of the control buttons have been replaced with sliders, although they do operate properly with a single click on them. Navigating around to modifying various settings of the system is a little unintuitive but not unmanageable. My biggest complaint is doing away with the start button. All the control interface as now on left and right edges of the screen (hence multi monitor problems); what was the the start button now brings up this tiled start interface that takes the entire screen. This is going to be problematic since being able to sift through your start menu while having another information window open is one of the core tenants of desktop UI design for the last 20 years and I think that this is far too radical a departure for the average desktop user to accept in a fell swoop. 3) They've integrated the ribbon interface into the explorer shell as well which can go either way, since the power of the ribbon interface is the ability for software developers to write extensions that integrate seamlessly into the explorer interface (you can see some of this with certain software and MS office 2007 onwards). 4) Applications don't exit much like the android OS; when you 'close' them they're just put into a background process and then deallocated if something else needs the memory. I'm somewhat half half on this; if the implement a good memory scheduler then it's bloody brilliant since applications now longer need to load from hard drives anymore, they're idled in RAM and deallocated as needed by other applications. On the other hand if done poorly it'll cause slowdowns as the CPU has to eat cycles trying to figure out what to d deallocate. And for power users that use highly memory intensive applications such as 3D animation or CAD, this could be even more hampering. For the average consumer this won't be an issue. 5) The inclusion of the hyper-v normally only seen in windows servers is of interest to me. I like the idea of having a hyper visor directly integrated into the operating system, although how it will compare to current commercial offerings such as VMware is in question (I didn't get a chance to try out this feature and it's already running in a VM). In all honesty I see Windows 8 as more of a mobile computing platform rather then a true desktop platform. If I was to speculate I'd guess that they're going to keep windows 7 and 8 side by side for the time being since windows 8's nature is just an evolutionary step of windows 7 with ARM support for the mobile computing market, so maintaining windows 8 isn't the same as maintaining two separate OSes. But of course, that's just idle speculation.

Little insulted that they took the Jane's trade name for an arcade sim but whatever.

Mind if I ask what you intend the tablet to be used for?