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Wait, I thought rumble was "last generation"
Now if only this were also a phone
Please me! My storm is looking a bit ragged, and im dying for a new technology fix.
@KillaChaos
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would max out an ancient system with a single core (with one hardware thread) and an operating system that lacks a scheduler. If you were running any decent os on that same machine (windows, linux, unix, etc.) it would not "max out" the system. Generally processes are scheduled based on priority which is based on a cpu-usage. Therefore, your program would hog the cpu for a short period of time, and the OS would force it to yield while it ran the other processes. So unless you are giving this process "real-time" priority, you would still have the option to run other processes.

Also, I hate to see people saying that you can't measure things like efficiency across multiple processors, because you can. There are many tools out there just for this sort of quantification of efficiency, and I'm sure that sony has tools for the ps3 to show bottlenecks and efficiency issues in code logic.
Funny how you fail to include the software in the cost of the device. Considering the man-hours spent writing a completely new operating system and the new software to run on it, I would say that you are getting a pretty good deal.
Looks bland and boring. Seriously, what does this have that LBP didn't already have last year? On top of that, the levels looked mighty sparse and uninspired.
Foetoid... you are wrong in every sense. GC != XBox. If you had any technical knowledge, you would know that the architectures are completely different, especially with the graphics cards. Did you ever wonder why GC never got anywhere close to XBox when games like Doom 3 came out? This is because XBox had PROGRAMMABLE SHADERS! Compare this to the Wii and GC.... neither of which have programmable shaders, and you get a ton of games that will only have flat shading, and 2 or 3 games that are bump mapped. If you have ever developed any sort of program that uses OpenGL or DirectX, you would understand why this is necessary for us to quickly develop beautiful games. When programming on the Wii, you are stuck either using the default shader, or writing your own out of a hodgepodge of default shader calls. The latter is terribly inefficient and time consuming. Because of this huge limitation for the Wii, you will not see many games that look better than the original XBox. Example: this screenshot looks better than 99.9% of all Wii games to date.

http://www.gamesradar.com/xbox/doom-3/screenshots/g-2005120719053099276733/pic-53D2FC4F-A30B-463A-9EC9-256F930A8369#autoPlay
My girlfriend really wants this trashbag of swag!
Says "iKurt". Fanboy much? Considering this post has absolutely nothing to do with the iPhone, which gets beat by Blackberry in many aspects (multi tasking, MMS, video, oh and that little thing called cut/paste), why would you even mention it? So why don't you go back to licking job's balls while we try and have an intelligent discussion.

Anyway, staying on topic.

My vote goes to the storm. Ever since the new software updates, mine has run like a charm. I did have to exchange the launch model due to clicking issues, but ever since, I have enjoyed it non-stop. But instead of asking a bunch of random people on the internet, why don't you go and read the hundreds of reviews on different blackberrys all over the net?
I'd beat them in a 60 player Resistance 2 match :)
Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
"I commonly need to boot a system from an external disc and take a snapshot of the host system. I also then need to burn a copy of the image to a DVD. While I can do it with two separate external devices, and two power supplies, and two I/O cables, it'd be nice to find a small dual-drive enclosure. It would need to have USB, eSATA, and FireWire. Either slim-line or half-height bay for the optical burner would be fine, and space for either a 2.5- or 3.5-inch hard disc. Any ideas?"
 

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