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I wonder how many of the half a million+ Mac botnet victims were told "no" when they asked whether their Macs were vulnerable? OP, you're not the first asker of this question to get a poor response from this forum, and unfortunately you won't be the last. Those who nonchalantly dismiss the...

In what regard are you not blown away? Taking good landscape shots is a real skill.

It won't be Windows 9 that knocks Windows 7 off its perch.

One of the biggest strengths of Windows is compatibility and long-term support. Why would they choose to ditch x86 before its time? It's not like it's holding anybody back who wants x64.

It's just common sense. Letting end users dictate their platform of choice is not a luxury most can afford. You standardize on things for a reason.

Unless it's part of your remit to provide the choice, I would politely tell them no.

I saw one on twitter earlier. Looks amazing.

I must admit I'm getting a bit tired of carting the DSLR on holiday myself. The quality of mobile phones let alone compact cameras these days is seriously making me reconsider.

Don't be afraid to use your smaller apertures f8, f11 etc. for a lot of these types of landscape shots. The post processing is fine, just experiment. It's all good. One thing I would say is in #2 is you've managed to line up the top of the building pretty much exactly with the horizon -...

It's a long-standing problem. You're not the only one.

I'm not advocating people stick with x86 Windows, I'm saying it's premature to call for Microsoft to ditch it. There is a huge difference. For your average user yes, x64 all the way.

There are still 32bit CPUs still around. Plus upgrade scenarios. There is still a place for 32 bit Windows, it's really not as straightforward as "ditch the old stuff".

Do Apple really hype OSX to the average buyer? I'm not so sure. The marketing is almost exclusively about the design of the hardware itself, followed up with some vagaries about how the software is supposed to be the antithesis of everyday "computer problems". It's the geeks who argue their...

BSD more like but in either case should be irrelevant on the topic of upgrading a Windows machine.

On something like a work laptop an upgrade is questionable regardless of what you're actually upgrading to. In my experience the use cases for these types of machines are narrow and extremely well-drilled and therefore quite sensitive to change. Definitely not a show-stopper but equally not...

MacBooks and Surfaces are very different machines. A Mac is going to be useless if you want a touch screen or the note taking features, likewise a MacBook is going to be a better pure laptop. I'd worry about that before financing options personally. You're only going to get good value if you...

I do this all the time without taking any preparatory steps (backup aside which should go without saying) and rarely have any issues and that includes between CPU/chipset vendors. It's nowhere near the hassle it used to be but there is still a lot of leftover anxiety about it.

My spider sense is saying knackered hard drive.

All signs point to Threshold being a "what Windows 8 should have been" release so I don't think it's going to suffer anywhere near the same level criticism. Windows 8 was the bulldozer release, just like Vista was.

Windows Backup (Image) works absolutely fine in straightforward scenarios.