@Iam9376

Today's high end hardware is low end a couple years from now. Even after my next upgrade (desperately waiting for a quad core notebook), I'll be shutting off services eventually to squeeze out every last bit of power, but you can bet I'll be running Vista a lot of the time. (Linux too, but gamedev has to be done in Windows for the most part...)

Holy hell. How many comments against this decision have I just read? I haven't seen this much anti-Google sentiment before.

If there is no option to disable Vista's search functionality, there should be one. (I haven't had the opportunity to use the operating system yet, so I can't say that there isn't one.) I say this because I want to be able to run a bare-bones system on low end hardware if I need to. Not because I would prefer to install Google's software, or anyone else's.

But really, these comments are a bit absurd.

50C? That is nothing! I'm running a P4 notebook that regularly sits at around 70C, getting as high as 75C when I'm doing something intensive.

I'm desperately trying to wait for a notebook with a quad-core CPU...

...and none of those options is actually there. 250 GB HDs, blu-ray drive, nothing. Forget this, buy elsewhere.

No, RAID 5 requires a minimum of 3 drives. Anyway, this is just a rebranded Clevo with some higher-spec options.

Indeed. That TDP makes it possible to see the first quad core notebook. AMD does it again!

VMWare Workstation 6 Beta isn't open source.

"maybe you can put those spare cycles to use by solving the traveling salesman problem"

That might be the funniest thing I've read on Engadget.

Uh... it kept saying to please try again soon. And nothing showed up when I hit refresh. So... sory for the many posts. Please delete them at your leisure.

Way to leave out the only interesting part of this article, as the rest is old news (older than the referenced article).

The D900C gets a 4.4 on the Vista performance rating indicator, with the HD being the bottleneck. I imagine this is without using a Raid-0 or a Raid-5 which would bring the score up considerably. The computer should be able to break 5.0... the *notebook computer*.

And those are the numbers before the 8800 GTXs get put inside that thing, and with a Core 2 CPU on the lower end of the set being offered.

Anyway, cool rig as it is, I'm definitely waiting for the 8800s.