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Are you seriously suggesting that a doctor's choosing to use a Mac is unethical? I gotta say, that's a new one on me. I find it amazing, now that Apple's the largest tech company in the world, that some people still hold the view that only idiots buy and use Macs. Whatever helps you feel...

Every local doctor I've been to, including my dentist, my ophthalmologist, and the local orthopedic center, all use Windows XP on their office systems. Doesn't that make you feel warm and fuzzy? Of course, the reason for this absurd state of affairs is that they all use vertical market office...

Sorry! I did a Google search on OS percentages and the first hit, admittedly dated November '11, said 50.something percent for XP. I'm thrilled that it's really only 38+% still using XP. I think it's a safe bet that in general Mac users run more up-to-date OSes than Windows users, but of...

What argument? I didn't make any argument; your assertion that I did is invalid. I merely noted a lot of folks in PC-land are still using a 10-year old OS.

Can't wait to hear your opinion of the 50% or so of PC users still running XP...

Bear in mind that for every dollar the evil oil companies make on a barrel of oil, the government makes about $3. And they don't have to find the oil, drill, transport, or refine it. They just take it.

I've used several ASUS motherboards with Fan Xpert; currently, the Sabertooth X79. All four pin fan headers are fully functional and the software works very well. I'm not sure where anyone would get the idea that ASUS or any other vendor would use "fake" PWM fan headers...

ASUS has the "fan expert" system on most of their newer (P67 onwards) motherboards, and it offers very fine grained control of your fans. On the most recent Sabertooth motherboards, every fan header is a 4 pin PWM header, and the X79 version allows you to link any fan to one of a dozen or so...

I just bought a K60, and while it seems to be a nice keyboard, it absolutely will not work with a KVM-- I've tried both Belkin and IOGear USB/DVI KVMs with the same results. I have keyboards ranging from a 1984 vintage IBM Model M (via USB adapters) to the latest Microsoft and Logitech...

It's kinda fun watching the entire PC industry scramble to catch up with Apple. Again.

Apple 4q 2010 revenue: $20.43 billion, market cap $317.5 billion Microsoft 4q 2010 revenue: $16.04 billion, market cap $241.4 billion So, no, Microsoft definitely doesn't "make money even better."

Considering that Google has specifically said Android is not designed for tablets, I wonder why so many companies are hyping it?

Too bad he built it "backwards", with the left and right side panels reversed. This is why the handle at the top isn't flush. The way it should look is clearly seen in the box shot on the first page of the review, not to mention the large, clear photo in the Assembly Guide, also shown on Page 1...

I call bullshit on the article. If this were really a problem, surely we would have seen some reports on it before, considering that every iPhone ever made has had a flush-mounted glass front screen.

You don't know what you're taking about. In the United States, you can carry whatever you want to on your private plane. FBOs (fixed base operators where private planes take off and land) have no scanning of luggage or passengers at all.

No, but it's getting to the point where newer motherboards offer one-automatic overclocking that can get quite close to the hand-tweaked performance of your machine. ASUS, for example, offers a number of overclocking options, from simple pushbuttons on the motherboard to more elaborate utilities...

By and large, that's an accurate assessment, at least compared to a Windows box. Like many of you, I serve as the de-facto tech support guy for friends and family. I've even built Windows boxes for business and personal use for friends. Right now of the folks I know, the Windows/Mac division (in...

The Dyson "bladeless fans" actually do have blades: in their bases. The air is funneled through internal baffles and guides and out through some weird venturi thing to achieve the smooth air flow they mention. I doubt the design could be squeezed into a computer fan...

Did you have to make any mods to the case? With my FT02 and H50, the radiator's "side tanks" forced the fan over about 1/4", so the screw holes on the fan (or, for that matter, on the radiator) didn't like up with the screw holes on the back of the case. Admittedly simple to fix with a drill or...

The H50 won't fit in an FT02, but the "tanks" on the H70 radiator look smaller...wonder if it would fit? I learned the hard way not to assume that RV02 dimensions and specs apply to the FT02...

Last fall I bought a Patriot Torqx 256M SSD for about $750. Which is pretty much the price it's going for right now. A Corsair P56 is $669 at Egghead this morning, so I suppose that represents some progress (although I don't know what that drive was selling for last fall). But the upshot is...

How are the PCI-E lanes allocated for USB 3 and SATA 6G? Will using two or more video cards disable these features?

You can't buy it that way from Thermaltake, but you can do what I did: unbolt side the panel, take it to your local plastics shop, and tell 'em to duplicate it in 1/8" smoked Plexiglas.

Hm. I wonder if all F16s come with shag carpeting and iPhone charging ports, or just this one?

Who cares how quad or hexa-core processors perform in games? Is this specifically a gaming web site? Very few apps will load all the cores on a 6-core processor, and few of us run a lot of virtual machines or do video production (some of the few tasks that really benefit from a lot of cores)...

I never said it wasn't. But as someone who's written hundreds of reviews and articles over the years, including some for BmR, I can tell you that no matter how technically astute you may be (I've been a professional programmer since 1986), if you write a lot, some day you're going to make a...

Yeah, it's not as if any other hardware review site has ever made any dumb technical errors in their articles...

Have you considered a career as an IT journalist? If only more people had access to your insight!

And this penetrating analysis explains the dominance of the iPhone how? Can't recall the last time I've even seen one of those "open" Windows-based phones...

I think you're over-analyzing. Personally, I think the majority of people want something that just works, rather than crashing, locking up, or displaying a BSOD; something they'll be able to use without calling you all the time.

You know, I thought the same thing back a few decades ago when manufacturers started delivering computers without programming languages. What good was a computer that you couldn't program without having to spend more money? Same thing with cars. Ever driven a Model T, where you have to adjust...

Have any of the experts here ever, like used an existing tablet computer? I have had occasion to use two for a programming project-- an IBM Thinkpad X-series and a TabletKiosk slate computer. They were both running Windows (XP and 7 were tried), and they're obviously much more powerful and...

There's no such word as "its'" (with a trailing apostrophe). It's = contraction for "it is" or "it has" its = possessive That's it. (Yeah, I know, but this really bugs me...)

Depends on what you mean by "function", I guess. Building a computer in this case is more trouble than many other cases; but at the end of the day, your components are going to work the same whether they're in a Level 10, an HAF 932, an 800D, or some ten-year-old Chenming case you picked up for...

If you think that, you must have missed the entire decade 1985-1995 as far as computer cases go. Hint: everything was beige. Everything. But even today there are much uglier cases. Check out the Lian Li PC-888 for an example. And nah, it doesn't look like a Bangle design. No flame-surfacing.

And which of these were you surprised by? I mean, didn't you research the case before spending all that money? I did.

Oh, I did. But the Level 10 looks so much cooler, and frankly the 800D looks kinda boring. But although I've only looked at 'em in stores I'd readily concede it's the superior case from a functional standpoint.

In my experience-- admittedly with the AMD "special edition" version, which lacks the side fan-- it's rather quiet. The Level 10's noise will obviously depend on your cooling setup, but one surprising thing is how noisy hard drives (like previous generation 150G Raptors) are: your drives bolt to...

The Level 10 is a nice case, and I'm glad Thermaltake had the courage to produce it. But after living with it for a couple of months, I see a number of niggling irritations, some of which seem to be the result of simple cost-cutting(!), and some simply poor design decisions. Bear in mind that...

Actually, in an interesting case of "good user interface design", Nissan had the right idea: pressing the Start button rapidly several times (as someone might do in such a situation) will shut the car down.