By John Gruber
Lex.Games: Free daily word games from Lex Friedman. Not the weird Elon stan;
the real Lex Friedman.
Consumerist:
When the Consumer Reports engineers compared three “optimized” computers to ones with default factory settings, there was no performance improvement. In one case, an optimized laptop actually performed 32% worse than the factory model.
It’s also a bait-and-switch tactic, to get you to pay $40 more than the advertised price.
★ Tuesday, 5 January 2010