As a person, give him a chance. As a politician, give him no chance. That's more than the lefties can say they did for Bush.

It never ceases to amaze me how few people understand Vista's idle resource usage. Here's a quick explanation:

While idling, Vista caches programs and data it thinks you might need. This simultaneously uses 8% of your CPU time and 33% of your memory. This process runs at a low priority, so if anything else needs that CPU time it will instantaneously relinquish it.

When you start a program, Vista stops caching stuff. Further, if Vista had your program cached, your program starts immediately instead of waiting for it to be read from your hard disk.

When your program requests additional memory, Vista initially gives memory from the unused 67%. After all of the unused 67% is used up, Vista cannibalizes the remaining 33% it was using and gives it to your program. As memory is uninitialized when allocated to a process this cannibalization requires no more CPU time than if it had been unused memory.

In effect, the net impact of Vista's idle RAM and CPU usage are nil. It only uses them when nothing else is. Heck, it can even be disabled if you really REALLY don't want it running.

From the numbers given, it's a ~220dpi display. That's not terribly uncommon in high-end phones now, and if my Nokia N800* internet tablet is a testament it's quite usable, even at arm's length.

(*) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N800

If it comes with non-integrated graphics acceleration and a ULV C2D processor I'm sold.

Everybody knows that the human brain can only hold 160GB, tops. And that's with a data doubler.

But can your electric shaver give you cancer? Well? Can it?

Fully charged! Power on! Let's dance! Extra crispy!

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I don't think Hustler magazines count as an investment...