Trim is important due to the nature of the actual memory cells in the NAND chips only being writable a finite number of times. This has not changed much at all in the past two years. Only just now is Samsung releasing their 850 line with the vertically stacked NAND, but that only improves top speed, and doesn't change…

Agreed, I actually had two drives in RAID 0 and found they were only marginally faster than a third ssd that was not RAID. When I read about the importance of TRIM, I moved everything to AHCI without arrays.

There is another HUGE caveat you missed! Setting up SSDs in a raid array such as this does not allow the drives to use TRIM, and depending on the use of the drives could greatly reduce the lifespan of the drives!

I would only recommend RAID 0 for those who do not care about the longevity of their devices, or for those…

I'm not a Mac guy so bear with me, I Fusion Drive enables system managed file transfers between a faster drive and a slower, larger one, but can you tell if there's any benefit between two ssd? Does Fusion Drive setup let you look at where files are physically between the drives?

I'm actually really excited for the PDF Viewer. I'm hoping it's feature-rich. I use pdfs all the time and none of the big name apps are perfect. A new option is welcome, especially a native, baked in one.

LOL!

The day you can ask "Siri, What do you do when life gives you lemons?" and her response is "BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD" is the day I smash all my Android devices and buy Apple.

But can Siri spell Khorne correctly?

ABSOLUTELY. Don't forget UEFI support and all the other minor security improvements.

One huge thing that your comment pointed out, and I am SHOCKED I didn't think of this before. How is it that Google launched Now for Chrome, but didn't think to make it into an 'offline app' (which would totally be online) and give it…

I agree. Even without a touch screen, despite it being "designed for touch" the UI is actually much more efficient than 7. As much as I like Flat design, I somewhat wish that the system was easier to skin. I might like to get some depth on my start screen, ya know?

What does it require a live account for? To my knowledge, only Skydrive, err. One Drive.

Totally agree. Generally in Win7 or 8, I just tap the start button on my keyboard and start typing what I want, but when I want to do something very common, the nice big fat tiles are far more efficient to mouse to instead of a silly tree of things. And if I want trees for something (Adobe suite's secondary tools)…

Pretty sure he is saying that he's annoyed that the feature is NOT available on his Win7 machine at work.

Agreed. The only OS that Apple deserved money for was Lion. (or Snow Leopard? Which one added x86/64?)

I think the most important point that the article missed is that 8.1 is out NOW and allows for windowed "metro apps" and also brings the Power Controls front and center in the Start Screen so desktop users no longer have to familiarize themselves with the "charms bar" (I believe it can actually be turned off now if…

You're a number crunching person, you obviously use your computer to do said number crunching, which I'll assume makes you pretty well versed in how to use Windows. I get that. I've run a good deal of automation on my system as well. Unlike you and I there are millions of other users out there who couldn't be bothered…

Or if you don't want your cherries looking like they were manhandled by Magilla Gorilla, use a kabob stick to peirce the end of the cherry on the bottom (opposite of the stem) and wiggle it around a bit, put it on top of an empty wine bottle, and poke the stick through the stem area to force the pit out the bottom. …

Are you 100% sure on Giraffe? I've never heard it said that way. Pretty sure you're just making this stuff up.

That's actually really nice to hear. They're finally starting to learn to respect their customers. I approve, but still not likely to choose them over Steam.

I was really excited when I read this, then I realized I wasn't on Engadget or TechCrunch...

It should be noted that this almost never works when the storebought stuff uses Corn as one of the ingredients. The flavor is nearly impossible to overpower.