@Heritor

I'd love to hear your credentials, and how that's relevant even if true. He didn't say "Stop using GSM, move to CDMA!", he said "stop using GSM". Good job knocking down your own dubious straw man though.

The redesign definitely made me get one - my PS3 YLOD'ing on me played a role too. Best part about buying one now is that there's years worth of exclusives that are now $20 apiece.

@bergwitz

When he released an arbitrary-code hack for the PS3, it lead to Sony making things quantifiably worse for people who owned the original PS3, so that probably leaves a bad taste in your mouth when people start blaming you for that. Besides, it's not like he promised to give this out or in some way owes you anything.

@Gonz

Multipart RAR files can be played back individually in certain media players, such as VLC. At any rate this isn't about torrenting - they go by the name of the torrent alone in that case and don't even really care in many cases if they received any data from you.

@AppleDrank

a) they did advertise it; those "it only does everything" ads for one thing, and they were always only too happy to point out that it could be used as a computer in order to justify its high cost when it first launched

b) it was designed for it. That's why it was mentioned in the console manual. And why it let you partition the harddrive to have an unallocated 10GB, or to only allocate 10GB. And why there was an "Install Other OS" option on the XMB. And why after you installed it, there was on option on the XMB letting you choose the default OS.

c) you're a complete tool.

@Schmich

The atom 330 is passively cooled. in the link I provided (the exact same one he used, I believe) you can clearly see that the board has a heat sink but no fan for both the chip and the northbridge. My atom 330 box uses a mobo that came with a sink/fan for the northbridge and not for processor itself.

@KillaChaos

Wifi, HDMI, Coax + S/PDIF, USB, and eSATA? He must have to custom build his own -

Oh, right: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813500052&cm;_re=atom_330-_-13-500-052-_-Product

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If you frequently use both NICs, I would guess that you are doing something wrong, or that you are in such a minority that it is pointless for motherboard manufacturers to cater to you. Apart from servers that are bridging/routing between VLANs or require multiple IPs on the same subnet, there is really no use for a multi-adapter setup that is not an edge case including the previously mentioned trunking.

Feel free to share what you use your NICs for; personally, I would prefer a single Intel NIC over the Marvel ones these boards normally have.

what I want to know is why do manufacturers keep putting dual NICs on casual use/gaming motherboards? A machine that's going to be used for web browsing, games, etc should not be bridging VLANs and I doubt that any games are so high bandwidth as to necessitate trunking the ports. All it does is add a few bucks to the cost and another component that can fail and has to be QA'd