I was always (15 years) big fan of desktops. And though it will never change. I went form intel DX386 through DX486, AMD K6, Penitum MMX, Pentium III, Penitum Celeron, Pentium 4. All were desktops. But year ago I need to move to another country and then when I had to take my Antec Miditower (25kg) with me to the airport I almoust died. So I bought barbone Shuttle. Man that is sweet. I putted everything form my ANtec into this small baby and have no problems.But it's still not enough for me I want go even more smaller and more mobile this is why I'm thinking about laptop. I want totaly move form desktop to laptop. I think this is the way the world is, everything is going smaller (smaller cell phones, smaller cameras etc.) Why not computers? In my opinion in future desktops will stay only as servers and maybe render farms. They will generate less heat, consume less power, it's only better for us, users.

Honestly, I'm more psyched to see a final copy of OSX for Intel processors hacked and running on a PC more than Vista. I can't think of one thing about Vista that would make me want to upgrade to it....


Hmm, crippling DRM? No thanks...

Doesn't play nicely with OpenGL? Pass...

'Updated' GUI? That's why I have objectdock...

If anybody can name a positive new feature of Vista except shiney new icons, please, enlighten me.

Merom, on the other hand, I am excited for. 64bit doesn't excite me too much because I know the performance increase for most programs is minimal at best, but that does seem to be where the industry is heading, so okay. Dual-core on the other hand, will make for a pretty nice performance increase when more programs (especially games) are multithreaded. Plus, the ability to enable both cores while plugged in and disable one while mobile gives you best of both worlds. Dual core power when you need it, and energy efficent processing when you don't. I think that will make an even bigger step to phasing out desktops (not completely, but you know...). Not to mention all the other improvements coming with Merom (more performance per watt, longer battery life, the 'next generation' of Centrino, ect.). Not to mention virtualization. I honestly can't wait for the day I can switch between various OSs.

Dual core is definitely the wave of the future. Once you get your hands on a dual core CPU you will never want to go back to a single core. I have had a dual core AMD X2 4400+ for a while but i finally decided to sell off all my desktop hardware and just get a laptop so now i have a Dell XPS 2 with a Pentium M 770. You definitely notice the difference in multitasking because the Pentium M isn't that great of a multitasking CPU even for a single core. With a dual core CPU everything is just completely fluid and you can open multiple applications at a time without a hitch. It also makes for MUCH faster encodeing times for music and movies.