Unless Amazon changes the kinds of offers they put on these devices, having several ad supported kindles is going to pay for itself. I've received a number of offers where Amazon just gives you $5 toward MP3 downloads or Video On Demand rentals.

By default Chrome and IE attempt to detect your system's proxy settings and uses those. Disabling this feature on each browser will impact cold boot and tab loading times significantly. I suppose it's fair to benchmark using the default settings, but it can also be misleading about what the browser is actually…

Whitson, You can force Windows 7 graphics drivers to install in Windows 8. I had to do this with my 7 year old laptop, but it worked and was the only way to get native resolution and hardware acceleration on my laptop. Windows 8 was 5-10x faster with acceleration for me.

Agreed. Apple should release their own malware app for OS X and update it once. Ever.

and I just changed my password to your credit card number! ;P

The key is achieving the same efficiency at a significantly lower cost.

The custom background image is the new feature. The rest was there.

Hello, and welcome to movie Kinect... Why Don't you just use a controller to select the movie you'd like to see?

Sam, your frustration with the Windows Phone platform is to be expected. It wasn't designed for you.

You can open those now?!?

This! I add grapes when they're on hand.

This research team is wasting their time. Optical mice were so 2003. Laser mice are where it's at!

That one is short: Graduate and don't get married straight out of college :P

Why? It's not the users' choice awards. For better or worse, enterprise standardized around IE for a reason. And that decision is quite defining in the history of the browser.

Audi and Renovo should have teamed up with Apple. Then nobody would be complaining about the price!

I'd "like" this.

My kitchen sink begs to differ!

Yes many people do.

If blue rays are better than red rays (dvd) then wouldn't purple (part red, part blue) still be worse than blue?