You don't need a lawyer to sue someone, especially in small claims court, and such cases don't always take enormous amounts of time or money like a large civil case with a jury might. You just have to pay fairly modest court costs and provide the right documentation that proves your case. In most states, the person…

This wasn't made by Apple, dude. Calm down.

It helps a lot if there's a guide, especially one from iFixit. They also often provide the tools you need for servicing. Unfortunately, many of my tech support customers buy horrible, cheap $300 laptops from Best Buy and Wal-Mart. Those fall off the radar so quickly that they usually never get repair guides. I've…

It's a problem if you want to upgrade things like RAM and the SSD later, but as someone who works on desktop computers frequently in the IT field, I can say that laptop repairs are a BITCH regardless of manufacturer. Occasionally in my freelancing I get a customer who spilled something on their laptop and wants to…

Too bad I'm the only one that called him out and he still refused to listen to anything I said

"Real world testing"? What does that mean to you, exactly? It sounds like what you'd actually like is to base your arguments on stuff that no one here can verify. My rMBP is fast as hell, subjectively, but my opinion of how it feels doesn't matter, which is why I provided you with rigorously-sourced objective…

You don't know what you're talking about at all here, dude. Forgive me, because this post is going to be a little long. The original 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro's base model (which I also own) has a Core i7 3615QM- 4 cores, 8 threads, and it's not an Ultra-Low Voltage or ULV part, which would be the class you seem to…

This has nothing to do with PCs and everything to do with Electronic Arts. None of the dozens of great PC games I own has anything approaching this onerous level of DRM- except StarCraft 2, but at least you can play single player on that without a constant Internet connection.

You can turn off 3G/4G on an iPhone, too. Which iPhone does he have? It really depends on your circumstances, because my iPhone 5 can last all day with LTE on, but my old Galaxy Nexus would get absolutely roasted and expire within 4 hours on LTE.

I was an Android user for more than two years. I had the Atrix 1 and Atrix 2, and then I switched to Verizon and got a Galaxy Nexus. I switched to an iPhone 5 at launch, and couldn't be happier. In short: better app selection, battery life, smoothness, and ease of use (less steps to perform common tasks). I have found…

The reason is price. As Sam Biddle stated so poorly in the headline of this article http://gizmodo.com/5977625/android-is-popular-because-its-cheap-not-because-its-good, Android is popular because it's cheap, not because it's good. This does not mean Android is not good- it means that it's high popularity is due to…

The E430 has a Sandy Bridge i5 in it. Newer generations of Intel chips support hardware acceleration for AES. If you're using AES, it's not affecting your performance in any significant way. You can use the "Benchmark" function in TrueCrypt's "Tools" menu to see what I'm talking about. AES benchmarks at 1.5 GB/s…

I know, right? It's been updated like 2 dozen times, too. Every time it makes me restart to update, I think that maybe, just maybe, it will be retina when it re-opens. Every time, I'm disappointed.

Just clicked through to that How We Work piece. We have the same keyboard, speakers, mouse, and webcam. Wild

What case is that? Looks a bit like my dream case, the Corsair 650, from that angle.

I don't know about that backwards compatibility advantage. Some of AMD's latest offerings hold their own in terms of performance with the midrange Intel chips and are sometimes cheaper, too (Intel does pull away at the high end, but I've never thought i7s were worth it). The main reason I build with Intel now is their…

Bartender is fantastic. I had an issue with menu bar apps freezing after I installed it on my retina MBP, and the dev was extremely responsive and helpful in getting it resolved. It may not be pushed out to everyone yet, but he gave me a test build that fixed the issue. The app itself is just really well-designed and…

Cool, thanks

How did you manage that Batman carrier logo, lol? Is that a unicode symbol?

Protip- you can bypass MobileSubstrate, and thus all extensions, by holding the up volume button while the phone is booting. It's very useful for getting past tweaks that go bad.