extremescouter

Mac OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion is definitely the best.  :D

Mac OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion is definitely the best.  :D

Cable management, massive overkill PSUs, and maybe when people buy components just to bump up their spec list, even if they will never utilize them. 

Yep
 
If I see a title that catches my interest, I'm more likely to go in it.  I almost don't even want to bother with the threads that don't have the topic clearly defined.

Yeah that's what I meant actually. A basic outline of the question would be great instead of these 2 and 3 word titles. 

true. thanks for the help

Apparently not. Another thing you could think about is if you think you would have more success selling an HTC one x than your tablet. Then, it would be worth it to go ahead and trade. 

how about something like this
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/19Vk3
pretty sure this is what @extremescouter had in mind too

Dafuq did I just read?

This commercial is definitely not going against Nvidia...

If you are going to be just gaming, neither of those CPUs are the best choice. I would say go for an i5 4670k, as the extra cores usually do not improve gaming performance. 

Cable management, massive overkill PSUs, and maybe when people buy components just to bump up their spec list, even if they will never utilize them. 

Macbook air or a macbook pro?  :D If you really want her to get into gaming, try and get her to go for a desktop/build one. They have much better upgradability, and would most likely perform better for the price. 

Because it gets old real fast.

July something.

Yes, the PSU would work. However, you may want to wait until AMD updates their drivers to do crossfire. I forget when they are coming out/if they have come out, but they will supposedly improve crossfire performance. 

Hopefully. I think it would actually be pretty funny to see how much Linus fanboys Anand during the interview. 

It's fine.
FreeNAS' is built with compatibility for Linux, Macs, and Windows. You just have to set each one up separately. But the file system doesn't mean anything for what OS you use. FreeNAS talks to each OS using protocols that make the file system used by FreeNAS irrelevant. It goes beyond just treating FreeNAS as "external storage". It's truly a file server. It handles it's stuff and the communication between it and other computers.
Lifehacker has an article explaining how to do the basics of how to set up sharing between windows, which mac and linux would be very similar, I believe.
They also cover streaming video, music, and photos, though that's not what you want it for, it can do it. Not by default though, you have to install some plugins (very easy).
It's worked for me pretty spectacularly.
"for backup... for external storage" Honestly, the way it works, you could have both.
You can't partition hard drives, but having 2 hard drives will let you use each separately for different things but the only "difference" would be a name. One named "backup" and one named "storage". They'd both, functionally, be the same.
ZFS allows you to use the FreeNAS RAID. Raidz. It's basically RAID 1/5/ or 6 (depending on the number of drives and type you choose). There are 3 types. 1, 2, and 3 (appended to the end of Raidz, as such: Raidz1).
1 is just RAID1, I believe. 2 is essentially RAID5, and 3 is RAID 6.

Does FreeNAS work with macs as well? Do you need a specific file system to have it compatible to back up a mac? Also, would it be possible to partition a FreeNAS system into one for backup, and one for external storage. Sorry if those are really basic questions, but I might want to build a FreeNAS system. 

Looks great!

When in doubt, C4.  :D

Probably not for just 8gb, but I guess I'm cheap. 

Yeah, thats the unfortunate thing. For people like Tom who actually review stuff properly, and give their own opinion, they will not be sent stuff again. So, it gives others an incentive to give a positive review, even if the product is mediocre at best. I commend him for going on with the review, even though he knows he will most likely not be sent anything again. 

Cable management, massive overkill PSUs, and maybe when people buy components just to bump up their spec list, even if they will never utilize them. 

Cable management, massive overkill PSUs, and maybe when people buy components just to bump up their spec list, even if they will never utilize them.