You're correct in saying that it's impossible to test every situation and thus have total objectivity (in anything, there will always be a slight level of subjectivity). That's why models are used. A benchmark report for Windows 8.1 vs 7 on say a site like Tom's Hardware uses a list of the most popular games from a…

You are absolutely correct that it's impossible to measure every piece of software (and hardware) benchmark. However, you can give a spread of popular games from a variety of different genres to more accurately model the "average" experience. See Tom's Hardware benchmarks for examples. My point was that was you…

The software YOU use is the subjective part. Objectivity would be a measure of all software in a comparison for both OS's to give a valid measure of the AVERAGE user's experience with the OS. Thus it is highly subjective. If you want to say it's objective to you, well that's quite useless info to anyone else so…

Then I support what you're doing wholeheartedly. Just be sure you're not replacing their (sometimes) ignorant reasons for not upgrading with your own by not bringing up the fact that you upgraded for highly subjective reasons.

Let me be clear, if I were to buy a second PC (and thus required a new license), I would make it Windows 8. I'm in no bandwagon. I always act as objectively as I can and research everything quite thoroughly (even things I usually support once my knowledge on the subject has lapsed).

I have limited use of Windows 8/8.1 but have read a fair amount on the 8.1 vs 7 debate (so take my opinion as you will):

Though there's a massive amount I disagree with in this Capitalistic greedy society that tends to screw all but the extremely wealthy, I don't think that's any reason to sell one's soul by succumbing to it's evils. These people are fully accepting the greed of capitalism. There is a little thing called human decency…

When XBox360 and PS3 stop releasing new games, just as I assume it has always been for previous console cycles. You yourself knew of the 2 year cycle, which conveniently corresponds to that window, plus a leeway time for an alteration of then current vernacular.

Dump her for PC. She's hotter, more open to new things and not a control freak!

I wanted to ad an addendum to what I said previously and you responded to. There is a third factor that has become more challenging (while strategy has been similar and reflexes have gotten easier). That is in terms of information processing. Another way of putting it is interpreting complex graphical situations…

I think the point is that the starting mode wasn't super easy. It actually challenged players in terms of not just strategy but reflexes.

Coming soon to SteamOS (probably). ;)

It's a PC, completely modifiable and customizable both in terms of hardware and software (including OS). You could buy it, wipe it, and install only Windows if you really wanted to. (Though I have no clue why somebody would do that)

If that becomes a problem, they could put a requirement for 802.11n (600MB/s max instead of 54MB/s), or wired (100/1000MB/s) when playing games with a large amount of data transmission (graphically/input/processing intense). Bear in mind the actual rates tend to me much less than the numbers I quoted above, which is…

When he's quoting "bang for your buck" I believe he's referring to Tom's Hardware reviews. Now they are partially misleading. Any GPU above approximately $250-300 goes up drastically in price for the performance increase gained, so the value is lost. But below $250-300 GPUs tend to lose performance at the same rate…

You definitely don't need to say this as the article is referring to consoles, but I feel it should be clarified in case others assume you're talking generally: You're only referring to the situation of SSDs being overpriced for use with a console. On a proper PC with an SATA III supported motherboard, the SSD will…

Just a small note but it's more likely that the SSD is faster on a PC due to the console (rumored) to use SATA 3.0 Gbps (SATA II) whereas a proper PC motherboard will use the SATA 6.0 Gbps (SATA III) pipeline. If you have an SATA II motherboard and hook up an SATA III SSD to your PC, you'll still get the shit…

I respect that you recognize your maybe-not-entirely-justified bias. I tend to favour individual reviews of products (from a variety of review sources) and tend to never discount any brand. Individual models/product lines can fluctuate greatly in terms of value/quality. This is even true for high quality lines like…

Honestly the case is almost a good price, but you really want great cooling out of your case:

In my experience, even a crappy $20 joystick with less than 10 buttons (+keyboard for backup keys) completely destroys a gamepad (mouse isn't in the same ballpark) for flight sims.