Really depends on what you want out of a notebook. Is it going to be used in place of a PC as your primary computer, spending most of its time near outlets? Or is it intended to complement a desktop, and will primarily be used when you're mobile? If the former, you'll care more about higher specs rather than longer…

I haven't read the comments yet but the article mirrors how I feel. I used to keep the site open in a tab and refreshed it constantly throughout the day, but now I'm mostly following it through RSS and marking most of the posts as read without even reading more than the headlines.

Will the gawker comment system ever work properly again? It's still a mess, months after the redesign. I know this is not exactly something you guys can answer but this seems like a good place to direct the grievance, since it might be seen and get passed on to the appropriate people.

The site itself works fine in Linux, if you spoof a windows useragent. The "we don't support you" thing is because they expect you to install some "coupon activator" (or some similar name) binary for the printing itself.

FYI, the Chrome tip isn't odd, nor is it Chrome-specific. Browsers have been usable as read-only file managers since the 90s, long before Chrome existed. Specifically, Netscape's browser (later Firefox) and Opera could then, and still can.

Thanks for the info, that's helpful. It's good to hear stability has improved with them; before AMD bought ATI, they had a bad reputation for being unstable in Linux.

That might work. It really depends on if the lights would be distracting or not, which is hard to tell without doing it first.

@Dr_Watson, @Lord Byte: Eyefinity is what's making me consider an AMD card, really. Monitor resolutions are largely stuck in the 1080p gutter (1920x1200 is double the cost, higher is 4x or more...) so the most affordable way to get more space is adding more displays. It's nice to see card makers addressing it as a…

Mostly problems with their multiple display support. It's flawless in Linux until you decide you want a third display or want to rotate one, and then everything goes to crap. Nvidia's XRandR support is half-baked and they've stated that they don't intend to improve it any time soon, and it's increasingly causing…

Thanks for the info, I'll have to remember that when it's time to get new hardware. I've been using Nvidia cards since the Riva TNT, but I've been having more problems with them than I used to, so I'm considering giving AMD a try for video next time. Eyefinity alone makes it tempting: I've had nothing but problems…

Nice to know they fixed that, even if it does still sound pretty limited. I just looked and it has a lot of caveats about what it will accelerate, and you lose the video outputs of the secondary card(s), but it's not all bad. You can still use non-SLI'd cards, including an onboard GPU, if you want more than two…

He's using two cards to drive the three displays rather than using them for SLI. SLI won't work with multiple displays, and I'm pretty sure Crossfire has the same limitation.

I considered doing the "parts inside the desk under glass" thing before, but ended up not doing it when I realised something: computer parts are ugly and, generally, not intended to be seen all the time. It's one of those things that makes a nice photograph and sounds awesome when talking about it, but gets old…

Yeah, it's an awesome idea in theory. I just hate the idea of deliberately damaging books so I couldn't imagine doing it myself. Hell, I can't even bear to dog-ear pages to bookmark them. :)

Agreed on all counts. The article photo alone made me wince. That's a terrible thing to do to a book :/

I assumed the hole for any cables would be close to the wall, where the monitor is blocking view. Still, that's a good point. If there's no cable hole it would limit usefulness even further, to just iPad users

I love my Sennheiser HD-595 headphones. I got them from Amazon a couple years ago during some kind of sale or special for slightly more than the price listed here for the HD-558s (MSRP was around $300 but I got them for about $210-220), and they're worth every penny. Durable, excellent sound quality, and easily the…

It looks interesting but has so many problems, especially for me:

As mentioned by someone else, if you're thinking of buying this as your first foray into graphics tablets, you might want to look into non-Wacom tablet instead. They won't be as nice as a Wacom one (I think the company has patents for its battery- and wire-free stylus technology), but you'll still get pressure…

(Side note: The kernelspace NTFS driver actually has write support but it's experimental and usually disabled. You have the option to enable it when compiling your own kernel. NTFS-3G is safer, so everyone uses it instead.)