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Actually the Xbox One is not really a console anymore. It has an x86 architecture, probably some windows 8 clone. All they have to do is ship with a keyboard, mouse and an Office installation and it will be pretty much a regular gaming computer.
for 500 bucks.
If they enable easy upgrading, then I don't see why people shouldn't ditch their regular overpriced PCs.
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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Well, as my PC setup can run games at higher resolution, on a better monitor, with higher framerate and better detail settings, I think I'll stick with PC gaming.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Collin Jasnoch wrote: first born sacrifice...Which one...?
The eldest.
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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NO! 
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Which contracting.... was that one then?
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Contracting1995 - another of his deceased accounts.
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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What's the going price per pound for mutton these days? 
Will Rogers never met me.
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My brother-in-law bought us an XBOX 360 a few years ago. Maybe he'll upgrade us.
I'm still OK with my old NES.
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PS4 with extra joystick and 3 games.
Ordered with Amazon for Christmas for my 2 boys.
Why, seemed a better spec than Xbox.
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I pre(-release-)ordered the PS4. Should arrive with the second wave near christmas. (They told me it would definitely be BEFORE christmas, but I wouldn't be that surprised if it would take a bit longer.)
It's my first PS so far (Had friends & family with ps1, ps2, ps3 though). Usually had a Nintendo device, but the games there are getting rarer (in fact the only good games are developed by Nintendo) and those that are available just aren't as exciting to me anymore as in my more younger years. Haven't used my Wii in years now... 
Main reason: I need a Blue-Ray player. I won't buy a cheap player without any updates etc. so that after a year you have to buy a new one as they changed something with their copy protection...
Second Reason: Might as well get some good games for the console though
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Collin Jasnoch wrote: Anybody pre-order
I think our Dalek pre-ordered wanted to order pre-placed an order booked a reservation for an order for a PS4.
I am not in gaming anymore. In five years, I will be playing with the kids to CoD25 or FIFA78.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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I might get an Xbox 360,
reason: They'll be cheap as chips when people switch over to the Xbox One and the games are still decent.
Simon Lee Shugar (Software Developer)
www.simonshugar.co.uk
"If something goes by a false name, would it mean that thing is fake? False by nature?" By Gilbert Durandil
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I'll stick with my current 360 for the moment. The current generation should still give a good year or so. After that, I'll go with the Xbox One.
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Which and why?
I mean, I've been using IE for a long time and it works well for me, at home I installed IE11 preview for Windows 7 and there are some things that are not working, but it is a preview so it should not be a problem... Given those things that are not working (payments, some web pages...) I've installed Chrome also.
It works, but I've not noticed a big change... it takes ages to load at the beginning. Maybe, but only maybe it is a little bit faster loading pages once it is loaded...
What are your thoughts? What do I'm missing? or, like lots of things out there it is only a commercial thing?
Thank you! 
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I actually use a combination of all of those... Chrome for most browsing... IE and Firefox for more secure sites (Chrome doesn't work everywhere plus it's nice to keep banking/card related cookies separate from everything else).
I've always found Chrome to be the fastest to launch, it's also nicely integrated with the Google world so that's kind of nice (have the same experience everywhere since it's tied into your gmail). I used to use Firefox primarily but it started getting bloated there for some time and took a long time to launch (specially in Linux) so that drove me away from it. They might have resolved the slow launch issues but I've stuck with Chrome as my primary browser.
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I used to use IE for everything too because my projects always required IE compatibility. However, a few years ago I tried Chrome and FireFox and they perform way better. I don't use IE at all anymore for personal reasons.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Here's where I sit too. Try to test in all three, but prefer Firefox dev tools to IE's. Chrome at home for personal stuff. Here at work I've always got IE fired up, so it's easy to open a new tab for checking email or whatever.
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I really like FireFox. I'm now so full of addons and extensions that it's insane. As such it does tend to soak up a world class amount of ram. But it doesn't slow down appreciably for me so I don't mind.
I don't mind IE11 as much as I'm apparently supposed to. but I never use it unless there's some reason I have to.
Chrome can kiss...erm... guck foogle.
I like opera just fine but I have FF so there's no reason.
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I'm sure IE is not bad nowadays, but almost every single feature that IE boasts appeared on FF or Chrome earlier. I used to be a big fan of FF for it's customization abilities, but over time I found it slower than Chrome and it piles up memory into a single exe instance which makes it harder for the PC to balance it's resources. Not too big of a deal with todays hardware though. When Chrome became customizable, it's integrated features and quick load/startup times won me over.
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I use IE almost exclusively. Most web development I do is internal and we're happy with IE. Therefore, I don't even need to install every browser.
I'm happy with IE for personal browsing. I feel the same way mikepwilson does about Google. I tried FireFox years ago, and I didn't see the point of switching based on what I experienced.
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I have IE11, Chrome 30, Firefox 24, and Safari 5 (for good measure  ) all installed.
I use IE almost exclusively. Firefox is way too slow, Chrome... well, we won't go there  , and Safari is an old dog now that Apple dropped us Windows users.
IE has given me some trouble since going up to 11 but, overall, I'm enjoying it.
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I was using IE until maybe 2009? Where I started using Chrome.
With IE11 in W8.1 I am, kind of tentatively, going back to IE
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I use FF almost exclusively. I have Comodo Dragon for my Chrome browsing needs, and have to use IE for SharePoint. I have never really been able to tell if one is faster than the other, but IE is a finicky little snot most of the time. Anyone that even does a little bit of web design has been bitten by the compatibility mode. FF has it moments, but I have found IceDragon (Comodo) to be pretty stable. And sorry, but I am paranoid and assume anything Chrome is reporting everything I do back to Google. Personally it is none of their business. I have also used opera some and liked it but keep going back to FF.
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Maxthon as my "personal" browser, because:
-- It's got the best networking features, e.g. cloud push lets me send the open page to any of my other machines (you don't realise how invaluable that is until you start using it).
-- Being able to quickly switch between Webkit and Trident means that no pages don't work.
Opera for work, because it lets you save as many sessions as you like (that's an absolutely killer workplace feature, IMO), and because they're always the first to come up with new features -- which the other browser makers later copy, and act like they invented them.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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