@PreyaticIntent: Glad I'm not the only one who thought that.

Boo to timed exclusives working against me rather than for me...

@Apethetic Man!: I got that, but I just didn't think it was all that clever.

@Apethetic Man!: Fault with what? I never suggested that an online game providing free items is a bad thing. Plenty have existed, Fable had a couple of good examples.

Both please.

It isn't like people are recommending pot brownies (not that that would be much more serious, I wish that were a state's dessert, looking at you California... ), or some cocaine concoction. The opponents supporting blueberries need to get over themselves.

I know my solution isn't for everyone, not anywhere close, but I set up a Hyper-V XP VM whose sole purpose is Chrome Cloud Print availability. Getting the printer drivers installed was a wee bit dicey, as the installer wanted USB support even though it is a network printer, but once I got it figured out, the VM just…

@Apethetic Man!: If Facebook did not exist, would there exclusive items only available through a Facebook game?

I hated Facebook before this. Exclusive items requiring membership is just another entry on the list of reasons.

@HPPalm: "Assuming you have enough PCI card slots open."

@Grygus: Not adding a RAID array makes sense, but he mentioned upgrading in a previous post, so that may be in the future. Who knows. While that was one of my points, and even though I personally wouldn't want to lose SATA ports due to future expansion, my biggest dislike of 3 was accepting a product that is known…

@HPPalm: Six. Only because the 2-port cheapo card I ordered isn't here yet. SATA dock, eSATA cable, DVD drive, SSD, 500GB HDD 1, 500GB HDD 2.

@HPPalm: Adding a SATA card just to have functional SATA ports long-term? That doesn't sound like a win to me. Your total SATA count is forever crippled, since with a good motherboard you could get the same add-on (granted, at an additional cost) and have that many more ports.

Wait.

All of the cases on these sites (minus the stoopid huge Origin one with the onboard 360) look to be customized versions of readily available cases from big manufacturers. Not sure about the Icon2, but it looks / feels like a Silverstone to me.

"Should you buy an NGP if it costs $500? If the games cost $10, that's not the worst option. Should you buy the NGP if it costs $300? If the games cost $50, that's not that different than the first option."

It needs to come with I Am T-Pain

Oh snap, I never have to leave home again if this reaches my area.

I think this is going to be the best thing that has happened to me today. This is just awesome. Makes me glad I ditched Outlook for checking my Gmail.

You aren't converting me any time soon. Not when I just do not need (not want, need) mobile internet, and when I can get a cheap plan for $30 / month that more than meets my needs. For that matter, I could probably go cheaper with prepaid.