Great counterpoint.

Are you Kanye West?

Austin ;)

Come to Austin. Ha.

I'll be moving out the 17th, so ideally I'd like to have a little get together before then. Pressed attending on the website, but since I've never used it, I don't know how much I'll be checking it.

I've loved it since moving here in January for work. A great city!

Chris Bosh wasn't enough dinosaur?

The Vaio was one of the "other" ultrabooks I had in mind.

Everything is flawed. Everything needs influence from everything everywhere.

That's a pretty interesting way to do it. Thermal compound isn't really as difficult as many people make it out to be, but installing a motherboard and putting an aftermarket heatsink can be a bit of a time consuming/annoying task so I can see the rationale of your method. I'll have to remember that for the future!

Not really dismissing as much as didn't account for. Good addition, thanks.

Yep... but I've never had much difficulty shipping iPods/iPhones to Apple.

Is that only for laptops?

Normally, I hate blanket statements like "Alienware is overpriced crap," but my experience with Alienware back in 2005 post-Dell buyout was exactly as you described.

Normally, I hate blanket statements like "Alienware is overpriced crap," but my experience with Alienware back in 2005 post-Dell buyout was exactly as you described.

He always follows that up with his signature pose. but still lol'd at your picture.

Windows 7 is pretty good, bimjim.

I don't know, I would think the S.o.L. for places like Los Angeles or NYC would be a bit higher, but I'm honestly just too lazy to look it up. I'd agree that $40k/yr. after taxes should be sufficient in most all of the U.S. to live off of though.

Since cost of living differs in various places.

I think she explained in a comment about her El Salvadorian mother and the culture of women "marrying up." I'll just say that as someone with an Asian parent, parents from different cultures can and do say shit that may sound completely atrocious to "Western" families, but has good intentions in their…