@movedor
Sounds to me like someone has an idea for a project.

Sounds to me like someone has an idea for a project.

PS... I'm an idiot, I wrote this about games not movies.... but points apply both ways.

I think this is awesome- Here's why:
1. Easier to build in DRM
2. USB drives are (well... can be) faster than CDs
3. I've never scratched a USB drive (I steal a tonne of games I already own due to scratched disks)
4. USB drives can have massively more memory than disks
5. Games on computers without drives!!! (Think mini-ITX, or laptop)
6. No more BS CD-Keys or CD-s locked to online accounts
7. Save games on a sector of a USB drive instead of HDD (portable profiles!)

I'd be willing to pay $5 on top of a $60 or $40 game to get a nicer gaming experience.

People who play by the rules should be super stoked about this! This is one of the few times where Game companies can protect their product from freeloaders without punishing legitimate consumers.

Are you just being a trolling dick?

Look I can do it too...
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1.9+kelvin

Oh wait... that's where they got their comparisons from....

University of Illinois! Go Illini, all hail the no longer sanctioned mascot of Native American Decent

*places head in hands and sheds a tear*

I have a hard time understanding the Intel fanaticism. I get that high performance system builders go with intel. If you need the absolute best, in terms of DD3 performance or whatever, by all means build an intel. But whats with bargain hunters going intel? As far as processors go, AMD only just falls short of Intel's selection in terms of performance at a price point, but once you build a whole system, it seems like going AMD drops $100-200 from the whole system cost due to cheaper MOBOs (which I also don't understand- why intel MOBOs cost so much more than AMD mobos from the same third party). I think its great that AM2+ and AM3 sockets are pin compatible (that makes your MOBO an investment right now).

If AMD could crank out a quad core at 65W and under $100, I think they'd have a real winner. I'd buy two for home server use.

@ Jon and yaksplat
I love when two people who have no particular expertise on a subject say completely opposite things absolutely authoritatively.... Kudos to you...

Can someone clear up what $149 gets you. Does that get you from XP/Vista to Home Premium, or is this to get you from shot in the leg 7 to decently usable 7? Furthermore are all those other prices for single (or double I think is the standard license) computer upgrades or 3 computer upgrades?

@Barcode
In case anyone else didn't get that "Chicago Typewriter" refers to the Tommy-Gun because when it fires it sounds like a typewriter....

At any rate, I think its funny that they are buying them from Swintec who I can only imagine has the motto "swindling coppers of of money with every sale"
They make clear typewriter, which would be so 1992 if it wasn't so 1982- they cost mare than a netbook (from $160 - $800).

I like junk!