I speak for only myself, but your apology is accepted. Hopefully something good can come of this fiasco, allowing Futuremark to create a truly useful benchmarking program*. I encourage the [H]ard community to voice their concerns of the benchmark to Mr. Sarkkinen.
* Personally, I don't know...
Going to build a new box with an Athlon64 3000+ processor and MSI K8N Neo Platinum (nForce3 250Gb) motherboard. I have a few choices for memory, as follows:
$253.12 - 2x512 Samsung PC3200
$310.50 - 2x512 Corsair Value Select PC3200
$310.50 - 2x512 OCZ Premier Series PC3200
$314.84 - OCZ...
What were the specs of the hard drive? To my knowledge, Dell offers a 60GB 7200 RPM drive.. is the system still slower with this drive, or was a different drive used?
[Begin wandering rant]
Personally, at the price point these laptops are being offered at, I don't see their appeal. I can...