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#1 ChiliDragon
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It's only the Retina Display model, not the "normal" one, but still... If anyone is curious, iFixit took one apart, documenting as they always do. I'd say something about their guide, but I'm still too stunned over how Apple attached the battery cells. Glue. Swear to god, they glued them in. On top of the cable for the touchpad! Yeah, this model is not user serviceable.
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#2 ChiliDragon
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Technically abortions deal with the insides of the uterus, not the insides of the vagina. That said, if you can't use the correct medical terms for lady parts when discussing legislation that affects them, then I'm really curious how the legislation was worded. Does it say "please insert inoffensive word for controversial lady parts" where a normal person would have typed the word vagina
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#3 ChiliDragon
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During periods of high traffic, what do you expect to happen? I'm not saying wait until after E3. I'm saying wait until after the conferences if you want to have more chance of it working. Traffic dies down after those.dab198
Ah, I misunderstood you. My mistake. :) And to answer your first question, what I expect to happen is that CBS has taken steps to accommodate an expected spike in site traffic to ensure smooth business as usual. You know, bring in extra resources they've know about for about a year in advance? :P
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[QUOTE="dab198"]I doubt site traffic is helping this right now. You'd be better off waiting until a quieter period, after the press conferences are over.BrunoBRS
but the point of following games is so we get information feeds on them, rather than having to scavenge through dozens of articles during E3. waiting until it's over defeats the purpose of following a game to begin with :|

Quite. Keeping a list of games I want to follow so that I can add them to my follow-list on Gamespot right in time for the week after E3 is pointless.
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#5 ChiliDragon
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I hope you told him not to do that anymore...GTR12
I did, and why there's no point in doing it. So since he's not stupid (only ignorant ;) ), he hasn't done it again.
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[QUOTE="ChiliDragon"]The original purpose of WEI was to make it easier to read system requirements. Software would be marked with "minimum WEI of 3.0", and then you'd know that if you have WEI 4.5 you can run the program. That is all it was ever meant to do. Using it to measure performance is similar to trying to use knife from your silverware drawer as a screwdriver. Sure, you can, but the knife wasn't ever meant to do that, and there are real tools that would do a much better job, since they were designed for it in the first place. And AlligatorAl is right. If your PC performs well and can do what you want it to do, who cares what WEI is saying? (WEI is a moron anyway. A friend of mine was able to raise their SSD WEI score by defragging the SSD... Enough said.)GTR12

Seems like your friend is more of a moron than WEI.

There's a difference between ignorance and stupidity. ;) In this case the stupidity is that WEI thinks an SSD gets faster if you defrag it. As for my friend, he only did it once, so the SSD wasn't exactly damaged.
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The original purpose of WEI was to make it easier to read system requirements. Software would be marked with "minimum WEI of 3.0", and then you'd know that if you have WEI 4.5 you can run the program. That is all it was ever meant to do. Using it to measure performance is similar to trying to use knife from your silverware drawer as a screwdriver. Sure, you can, but the knife wasn't ever meant to do that, and there are real tools that would do a much better job, since they were designed for it in the first place. And AlligatorAl is right. If your PC performs well and can do what you want it to do, who cares what WEI is saying? (WEI is a moron anyway. A friend of mine was able to raise their SSD WEI score by defragging the SSD... Enough said.)
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#8 ChiliDragon
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So after doing more research, reading user reviews and "real" reviews, and checking the Rate My Rig thread, it looks like it's going to be a Z77 after all. Now I just have to decide which one, and pick a CPU... thanks for the suggestions, everyone. :)
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#9 ChiliDragon
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If you want 4GB, you either buy two of inousX's suggestion, or you buy this kit.
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#10 ChiliDragon
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That is plain sexy, Wasdie. What do you love about the case? Cable management, airflow, noise levels, etcetera...? I'll probably need a new case soon, so I'm looking for opinions on them. :)