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Its been that way for a long time. 3.1 good, 4.0 aka 95 not very good, 4.1 aka 98 good, 4.2 aka Windows ME Terrible, 5.0 and 5.1 aka Windows 2000 and XP Great, 6 aka Vista terrible, 7 great, 8 terrible. Lets hope it continues. ME and Vista were nearly unusable, 95 and 8 are merely poorly designed a...

Plus, they've made Metro a whole walled garden thing - the only way to get in there is via the Windows store. Want to build a small app that you can distribute to your friends which won't pass Store certs (say it only works with a local ISP or something)? No can do, unless they install dev tools. B...

Forget to mention also that the newer Windows versions handle multi core, hyper threading and all the newer CPU features like virtualization support properly and I don't think XP does. Plus if you want to support something like RAID you are also probably better off with a newer version. 64 bit OS wi...

For those who really like XP, but need to upgrade to windows 7 or 8, you should look at windows XP mode - http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/products/features/windows-xp-mode . This is basically something Microsoft offers for free to be able to run XP under virtualization in the newer windo...

Backups! Would had to see you lose any of the stories or other important files so hope you burn a blu-ray back up of your stories and other stuff!!! Another way to do it is this way. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817173042 I've got one of these with a 3TB drive in it at the ...

Hi Fel, I've been building rigs for myself and all my friends for donkeys years now. 99% of the general public will see no appreciable benefit of going for an i7 over and i5. ... So you don't think that having the extra threads (4 vs 8 ) is worth an extra ~ $50 - $100 ? I guess it would depend on w...

Um, with 16 gig ram he'd already have to be running 64 bit or it wouldn't use more than 4gig.. I was not 100% sure if that was correct for windows or not. I know for some OSes like Linux you can have a 64 bit kernel with a 32 bit userspace so that the larger amount of memory is available to the OS,...

One thing I'd suggest here is an SSD. Yes, it might cost you a bit more, but the speed increase is definitely worth it. Additionally, putting your OS on the SSD, and any other data on the 2TB HDD will give you some redundancy/separation. I second the SSD recommendation, but be careful which brand o...

Also the GForce 660ti 3 GB RAM seems a bit pricey for a mid range computer. Is there a need for the extra performance? If not, you should be able to easily go with a cheaper card like a GeForce GT 430 or GeForce GT 610 if you are not planning on a lot of graphics intensive gaming.

You may want to consider adding a SSD as the primary OS drive and using a regular 2 TB hard drive as the secondary drive. This can allow the computer to boot quickly and has some other benefits. It will cost a bit more, but this is not an upgrade you can do later. I found this article helpful when I...

Is it just me, or are the Aggy Books fairly blatant rip offs of Honor Harrington? (Background, some of the plot points, etc)

Yes, I know that using the 240SSD as a cache drive is a bit excessive. But, I had used it for my OS drive for about nine months until I realized that it was too small (when a game installs tells you not enough room, its too small). I really wish that I could install tell windows install to place th...

I agree. Even though the story seemed to stop at a reasonable place, I don't think that the story is done either and it is also one of my favorites.

Out of curiosity, what are the other two of your top three authors?