The long-awaited Crysis has been here for a couple of months. I have seen several reviews for it during my duties as a news-poster, but I resisted the urge to read any of them. Knowing that I would buy it, I wanted to walk into it with a fully open mind. When it was released back in the fall, I decided that I would wait until getting Vista so I could play the game in DX10, as the developers intended....

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For over a year, I have been reading post after post, article after article, blog after blog, telling me why I don't want to go to Vista. The criticisms are wide-ranging...from Vista being full of annoyances, to "its the worst operating system ever developed." (anyone saying the latter obviously hasn't been introduced to Windows Millennium Edition)

After spending this time listening to these naysayers, prophets of doom, and Microsoft/Bill Gates haters, I finally decided...

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This is my first blog/article at HardwareLogic. I’m pretty long-winded, and was advised in the forums that I should use lots of pictures. I try to please.

I guess that this is somewhat of an explanation of why I like hardware forums, part of why I write long, rambling posts, and a little bit of a rant at the level of computer knowledge that the people in my day-to-day life have…or lack thereof.

I have been around and owned computers since before many of you reading...

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