I do have it up to 3GHz, my board won't POST with the FSB set past 1333MHz though. I had it at 3.6GHz on another board, which kinda pisses me off (I went from an EVGA 780i to an XFX 750i after the 780i died).

Alright, lets see how my old Q6600 and 5870 can handle it!

A friend of mine with a notebook that has an 8800GTS and T5700 CPU told me that it ran pretty well. Either that, or it was his friends computer. Either way he said it was running pretty well on lower end hardware.

Nope...Chuck Testa.

I usually let the neighbor kid use my notebook that I have a linux distribution installed on. He usually plays flash games so it's not bad at all. Recently he's taken a liking to running around in empty Crysis Wars servers. So I let him do that sometimes while I watch TV or get on the notebook.

Or you could be famous and get all your facebook/twitter fans to help you out. Really, this happened last month. The front-man for a band I like lost his dog while house hunting in LA. About a week later ~47,000 people were on the hunt [just going by Twitter numbers, haven't checked any of the Facebook/Twitter fan…

Well, like I said, if memory needs increase it may stop them immediately. Currently, I don't see the issue as long as they close. If it doesn't end up eating ALL of my memory, it's fine. Especially since what we're seeing right now shouldn't need all that much. The standard desktop programs are the ones that have…

Windows appears to manage and close them after a prolonged period of no use. So you can either wait and ignore the memory they're taking up [maybe Windows will close them faster as memory needs increase], or you can manually do it via task manager.

I've found that just tapping the Windows key flips between the "Metro UI" and the "Standard Desktop".

I've found they apply where ever.

I miss the verbosity.

I think that depends how much better Ivy Bridge is. Otherwise, I don't see Sandy Bridge disappearing for a good while.

Agreed, especially since I don't have any spare hardware around to test it on fully.

You mentioned using a TV for the monitor. There's a browser, that I remember seeing a long time ago, that's built for HTPC's and viewing web pages across the room. That kind of huge font at how close he'll be might make things easier. [lifehacker.com] I think there's another one, but this is the only one I remember

EXPERIMENT!

We haven't seen any changes to UAC yet, there's still time for something like that to happen. Though, we also haven't seen a machine with a bunch of apps on start-up with Windows 8 yet either.

For reference, I'm a PC player, but a couple friends bought it for 360.

I think that's part of the user session. They're storing the kernel session. So yes, a shitton of apps on boot will still slow it down, but the rest of Windows should come up faster than usual still cutting down the time of boot considerably.

Agreed. As I'm sure we've all already played it at least once, maybe twice.

How doe these search engines compare to others? And how much content to they have that's searchable? In my experiences: TinEye is great, but it doesn't always have a source; Google's image search is better, but it has a file size limit sadly.