I was about to say, we used this in school, hardly anything new.

Sorry, there is a call for you, it's the 1990s, they want their argument back.

Please. Linux is now so simple a three year old wouldn't have any trouble installing it and using it. Please refrain from showing your ignorance

Package Managers make installing software rediculously simple, god knows why Asus shipped an idiot's version with stripped down stuff on it with the EEE. EEEbutnu is a good distro customised for it, and it works perfectly, but with all the features of full-blown ubuntu.

Linux is an amazingly usable desktop OS now, maybe you should stop bashing it when you clearly know nothing about it.

Say what? If you are talking about KDE3.5, then Gnome looks way better than KDE3.5 - full stop. If you mean KDE4.x, then it's not stable enough for common usage yet.

Gnome looks fine.

(Disclaimer: Currently running Arch/KDE4.1)

Virtually? Try exactly.

Well done for saying what the article said, for those who lack the ability to grasp simple concepts that are clearly implied in an article.

Really. Good job.

Low power means low heat. Low heat means little airflow. Little airflow means little noise.

Also, it's cheaper.

Plenty of reasons if you ask me.

Yes, but with RAID0, you get speed, and with RAID1 you loose space. There are plusses and downsides to both. Shame you can't use either.

Why not just send the signals to the 360, rather than doing something so expensive? It'd also 100% it all of the time.

Of course, I know the answer, this looks cool while it does it.

A fridge's compressor is not designed to run all of the time. It is designed to keep things cool, not cool them down. Once a fridge brings a drink down to a set temperature, it has to do little work, a PC pumps out heat constantly.

Not only that, but condensation would form and kill everything.

These setups do exist, it's called phase change cooling, but you cannot use the compressor from a fridge - it'll burn out.

I forgot to mention, water cooling is becoming redundant these days. Look at the 45NM CPUs, they don't output enough heat for Water to be worthwhile. Even when you are overclocking, you will hit a ceiling with the voltage you can put in without killing the chip before you ever reach the ceiling of temperatures.

Water cooling is on it's way out, in fact, passive heatsinks will be the next big thing, I believe. People not going to need powerful cooling, so instead they will want silence.