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Once upon a time (late 1990s), a company called Kryotech essentially put a refrigerator inside a computer rather than do it the other way around. At the bottom of a very tall and heavy case, they had the workings of a refrigerator (compressor, condenser, coils, etc.) that pumped coolant to the CPU. AnandTech and Tom's Hardware still have their coverage on their sites, complete with diagrams.

Leaves Humans In the Dust

No. In fact:

AlphaGo beat Ke Jie with only half a point difference--the smallest possible--but that may be due to the AI’s “safer” winning strategy.

Yes, that article is about the first match. It doesn't matter.

I doubt that you need 600W for a serious VR rig unless you are seriously price-constrained to the absolute least costly parts that get the performance you desire and don't care a bit about how much waste heat or noise you're producing.

And that's because you have no idea what you're talking about. Just one GTX 1080 draws 173 watts peak, and obviously you have to plan for peak power consumption. Two of those will set you back 346W by themselves, 46W more than my whole PC. SSDs are basically free power-wise (4W or less for the most part) but the CPU is typically over 100W these days and the motherboard itself will draw anywhere from 25 to 80 (!) watts. Each stick of ram is around 4W as well, which would be insignificant if there were only one of them but most high-end gaming rigs have 4 or 6.

600W is not difficult to hit when building a high-end PC. If you slap a third GPU in there for PhysX for some reason, you can get up over 600W without any trouble.

This is the same HP that hasn't come up with a hit since the bubble jet printer, people. The same HP that pushed a cloud computing solution that was so pig-fucking awful that The Onion mocked them about it. I worked at HP at the time, and I really have to think that The Onion had someone on the inside...because their parody was unbelievably on target. "We have 4G, 5G, 6G...we have all the Gs. We have app." That's literally as bad as what some of the people at HP were about it...it defied belief. This is the same HP that came up with a small microchip that could hold information and push it to your phone...but alas, as good as it sounded to have them talk about it, the phone's receiver had to stay within an inch of the thing, and the data transfer rate was literally as bad as a modem from the late 80s. This is the same HP that couldn't come within billions of dollars of precision as they tried to evaluate the price of another company they bought...and then effectively sued themselves when they realized that they fucked up on the offer they'd made, had accepted, and consummated. HP had to state on their SEC filings that flight of talented people had become a major impediment to their achieving their business goals...starting several years ago. And it hasn't gotten better since. These are stupid motherfucking people.

Oh, in more recent news, this is the same HP whose business-grade laptops (since we're talking HPE here, really) had a keylogger built into the audio driver.

So yeah...I doubt that this "machine" is all that. I'm curious...have they ever actually managed to CONNECT it to 160 terabytes of RAM at once, or is this a theoretical capability? Because they lie like a rug about this kind of silly detail. I can't help but notice that those 160 TB all have to be in a "single bank of memory." Wow, that must be one long-ass DIMM!

Considering this is a broadcom problem, I don't see what difference it makes in this regard.

However in overall security, I somewhat doubt it:

http://www.computerworld.com/a...

Keep in mind, Windows had a super tiny mobile market share even at the time, and still manages to be responsible for 80% of malware on mobile networks. And yes, windows phone isn't immune, nor are Microsoft's lofty promises about how awesomely secure Edge is:

http://www.tomshardware.com/ne...

I didn't even think of that, since I got the first review from http://www.tomshardware.com/ne... where they use a 6900K. However, since an 1800X costs about half of the 6900K I don't think it's fair to consider them competing in the same segment.

It is on it's way from Qualcom http://www.tomshardware.com/ne...

all intel has to do is use the headstart money from the i-series whatever all the names were slash the price on i7, make i5 the new celeron even if selling it virtually no profit http://www.tomshardware.com/re... and bob's amd's uncle

> Who in their right mind spends that much for a video card? Seriously, I want to know.

Questioning is fine -- but your tone makes you look clueless instead of being inquisitive.

I'll give you 4 reasons why I buy cards like this:

1. You're assuming ONLY gamers buy this card, which is incomplete, but I'll discuss this first. I prefer to game at 120+ Hz . I settle for 60 Hz at 2560x1440 (or higher). Graphics Cards are STILL too slow to run 4Ka, aka 2160p at 120 Hz. VR is still a performance hog. You'll want at least a nVidia 980 to get a great VR experience.

2. I do CUDA programming on my nVidia cards. It sounds like you don't understand what heterogeneous programming is.

* GPU's are fast and inflexible.
* CPU's are slow and flexible.

  Offloading selective work from the CPU to the GPU dramatically reduces processing time. GPUs have THOUSANDS of "cores" compared to the piddly "8-core" of CPUs. The cost per core of a typical i7 is $300 / 8 = ~$37. The 1080 Ti is $700 / 3,584 = ~ $0.19. Obviously this is an Apples-to-Oranges comparison but depending on _what_ kind of work your doing this could be EXTREMELY cost effective.

I still have an original Titan in my Linux dev box that I paid $1,000 because it has 1:3 float64 performance compared to the butchered 1:24 float64 performance of later cards -- Translation: For 64-bit floating point the original Titan SCREAMED -- each 64-bit floating point operation was only 1/3 as fast as a 32-bit float. Later video cards butchered the performance so 64-bit floats to be only 1/24 as fast.

3. Game developers, namely programmer and artists, which overlaps with my next point.

4. Graphics programmers, graphic gurus, and "shader junkies" like me buy cards like this -- that is anyone doing real-time rendering, or "pre-viz" work in the movie industry, also has an eye on getting hold of the fastest GPU's they can get. I don't know what GPU's was used in Avatar but they used a total of ...

* 4,000 computers
* 40,000 CPUs

... just to render ONE frame that lasted 1 / 24th of a second ! I'm willing to bet they did a LOT of pre-visualization rendering work to get the scenes looking "just right"

Anytime you need the ability to preview _complex_ rendering (shading / lighting) a faster GPU will help. You then distribute it to thousands of CPU's to do the actual rendering.

You would be less myopic if you would open your eyes to what people are doing with real-time pixel shaders these day. The site ShaderToy is extremely well known amongst us graphics programmers.

* "Wet Stone"

* Mario

Modern GPUs completely S-U-C-K for non-volumetric rendering. Using ray-marching is the standard "solution" to get great looking effects.

It would behoove you to read:

* Rendering Worlds with Two Triangles with raytracing on the GPU

* Clouds

Now I'm quite happy with my Titan and 980 Ti but others will be looking to upgrade. Whenever you upgrade you want to move up at least 3 tiers.

* Desktop GPU Performance Hierarchy Table

Instead of criticizing people for buying the fastest thing they can afford it would be more productive to open your eyes for how much computers are STILL d-o-g slow for graphics.

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"One does not fully appreciate just how complicated reality is until one starts trying to simulate it."

Some incorrect statements:

- Modern GFX cards like the Nvidia 1080 or latest Titan Pascal GPU are compatible with but do NOT require PCI 3.0 (PCI is both backward and forward compatible)
- DDR4 is actually slower than DDR3 even at substantially faster clock speeds (well documented)
- Hardware video decoding and encoding is almost completely useless on these CPUs. It makes a difference on the i3, sure (2 cores vs 16...)
- Power management on these CPUs is more or less on par with more modern ones. In fact due to electrical leaks and variability in the production process, the power consumption of latest-generation Intel chips can actually go up compared to previous generations.
- Very little software today takes advantage of the newer SSE instructions. the E5-2670 is a 2012-era CPU, it is pretty stacked in this department already.

The ability of a CPU to do math is incredibly important to some users, for instance, but not limited to, people who need or like do math with their computers...

I can't see an Apple only processor wining over Intel, either. At minimum, Intel's process advantage would have to be nullified and I can't see that happening until scaling comes to a full stop.

Well Intel has been very tight lipped about die sizes lately but the 14nm Broadwell-U has 1.3 billion transistors in 82 mm^2 and 1.9 billion transistors in 133 mm^2 so 15-16 million transistors/mm^2, same with the Xeon E5-2600 v4 it's 7.2 billion in 456 mm^2 so 16 million/mm^2 too and they haven't had a die shrink since. Apple's 16nm A10 that's in the latest iPhones have 3.3 billion transistors in 125 mm^2 die size so 26 million transistors/mm^2, it might not be an apples to apples comparison but seems to me like Apple is already ahead in density. It's probably easier on a low-power chip, but really I don't think Intel is ahead anymore.

Microsoft removed the cheesy Aero interface for one reason only: mobile devices could not run it efficiently.

[citation needed]
Speculation from some blogger is not enough.

Windows 8 theme is not that different from Aero and it actually uses more VRAM: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/graphics-card-myths,3694-5.html
It might give the illusion of being faster, but that's because the animations/transitions are slightly shorter (they can be disabled anyway).

And read the comments here today from people who just downloaded it? It seems besides Billy another user had to use DDU to stop the crashing and he still had problems installing the latest driver.

that wants this http://www.tomshardware.com/ne...

And with no pressing issues in Canada, all is safe. With energy costs(from gasoline, electricity to natural gas) that are going through the roof in nearly every province. Never mind that Canada is teetering either on a deflationary spiral or hyperinflation spiral(depending on which way the housing market goes). A housing market so hot that it makes the late 1980's housing market seem like a balmy day, and CHMC(think freddie-fanie) mortgages arrears and foreclosures are increasing. Serious regional unemployment numbers, but believes importing *more* people is a great plan--especially TFW's who could be hired at any job(unlike H1B's which are limited to one area) with wanting to have a population in Canada of 100m in 50 years. His pay-for-play access scandal. A carbon tax that's going to jack the prices of everything up by around 20%, a declining service and manufacturing industry. Rampant debt and overzealous expenditure projects that in the previous government would have every left-wing media publication screaming from the rooftop about how we can't afford it.

And has decided that he wants to spy on every single Canadian, and pass a bill just like the snoopers charter in the UK. With mandatory decryption, backdoors, subscriber info and retention logging But he's got time to make a video game....so we're all safe.

While it'll probably take way too long to discuss all the cited issue pro and con and the reasoning of Canada's prime minister behind those decision, a quick 3-hour codding + tweet to promote studding and codding is a pretty efficient move by the Prime minister don't you think?

And with no pressing issues in Canada, all is safe. With energy costs(from gasoline, electricity to natural gas) that are going through the roof in nearly every province. Never mind that Canada is teetering either on a deflationary spiral or hyperinflation spiral(depending on which way the housing market goes). A housing market so hot that it makes the late 1980's housing market seem like a balmy day, and CHMC(think freddie-fanie) mortgages arrears and foreclosures are increasing. Serious regional unemployment numbers, but believes importing *more* people is a great plan--especially TFW's who could be hired at any job(unlike H1B's which are limited to one area) with wanting to have a population in Canada of 100m in 50 years. His pay-for-play access scandal. A carbon tax that's going to jack the prices of everything up by around 20%, a declining service and manufacturing industry. Rampant debt and overzealous expenditure projects that in the previous government would have every left-wing media publication screaming from the rooftop about how we can't afford it.

And has decided that he wants to spy on every single Canadian, and pass a bill just like the snoopers charter in the UK. With mandatory decryption, backdoors, subscriber info and retention logging But he's got time to make a video game....so we're all safe.

And this attitude is exactly why Desktop Linux hovers at around 2% or wherever it is today.

Ah, I can see from your comment that you've been in a coma for the last ten years. You're probably parroting the Windows centric site, NetApplications, that remarkets EXE's under new names and it tracked the OS of people looking for Windows software. No surprise that only 1 or 2% were running Linux.

Here is the detail of another site that tracks the OS of its visitors:
http://distrowatch.com/awstats...
You can see that 41% of the visitors were using Windows and 47.3% were using Linux. Now, shall I claim that Linux has a greater market share than Windows? Using your logic and proof I could. Of course, you could use the Microsoft retail chain bean counters to tally how many installs there are of Windows, but Linux doesn't have such a retail chain and no one bean counts it. Someone can download a Linux install ISO and use it to install Linux on one, two, dozens or hundreds of PCs. And, most likely, those PCs were running Windows before Linux replaced it, but the count on WinX installs doesn't drop and the count on Linux installs doesn't rise.

The fact is that Linux had double the market share of Window back in 2013!
http://www.tomshardware.com/ne...

Goldman Sachs recently published a chart which shows the shift from Microsoft's 95 percents hare of the computing platform market in 2004, when PCs dominated the computing landscape, to just 20 percent in 2012. The forecast suggests that Microsoft will be able to grow its share back to 26 percent by 2016 and Android will shrink to 39 percent, while Apple's iOS and MacOS X will expand from 24 percent today to 29 percent in 2016

Goldman Sachs was wrong. Microsoft's Windows phone is dead, at less than 1%, and Android (based on Linux) is now at 75.6% of the market share.

The PC market is in decline, and it is affecting Windows sales the most. Windows XP, 7 and 8 users are forced by Microsoft to pay for an upgrade to the latest version, that's how bad Win10 sales have been.

Wary of US owned CPU manufacturers, Russia has started making its own MIPS CPUs.

How long are thumb drives readable? Google doesn't seem to have a firm answer, at least for a thumb drive just sitting there. http://www.tomshardware.com/fo... does point out that the memory is based on static charges that probably will leak away in as little as 10 years which wiki also agrees with.

Most have been spotty articles over the years, but a recent one that I have on hand is this: http://www.tomshardware.com/ne...

Interesting spin.

Netflix also found that for resolutions of 1080p and higher, VP9 was equal or better than h265.

http://www.tomshardware.com/ne...

Which is totally believable because h265 was intentionally engineered for low resolution, low bitrate applications while VP9 was not.

The Macbook comes with 8GB of memory built in. RAM is not upgradable in this model.

The Macbook has a 12-inch screen and weighs 2 pounds. And has one, single port for power and everything else. What knucklehead would consider that a gaming rig? It's a portable internet work machine for when a tablet won't cut it, for business people in airports and kids with 50-pound backpacks biking to class. You're paying for the thinnest, lightest... not gaming power or expandability. and the few comparable PC laptops are comparably spec'ed and priced. Games? Seriously? I use Macs, I won't game on a Mac.

Wait, you can game on a Mac. Build a decent PC rig based on, I dunno, Ars Technica, Toms Hardware, wherever, install Windows on PC, install Steam on PC, install Steam on Mac, use Steam client on Mac to stream game running on PC rig to Mac. There. Gaming on Mac. Using a PC. No worries.

Gee, if only geeks would share their knowledge. Oh wait, they already do:

* https://www.reddit.com/r/PCMas...

I've been building custom PC gaming rigs since the early 90's. This isn't rocket science. You spend a few minutes doing research -- or if you are really lazy

* http://www.tomshardware.com/t/...

Hell, if you can't even be bothered to think one could always go with Dell / Alienware.

Oh wait you can

http://www.alienware.com/

Not for you ? Oh if only there were someplace that would let you pick your components and they would build the PC for you

https://www.google.com/search?...

Tooo hard to figure out what you need ? If only there were a guide of some kind

http://www.tomshardware.com/

http://www.hardocp.com/

I'm not sure I follow; just because a piece of malware comes from the internet doesn't mean your only diligence must be in your web browser (... and email client, torrent client, ...). Nowadays, we're more plagued than ever when it comes to zero-day malware, meaning that A/V misses it the first time around. You need a local A/V scanner that regularly evaluates potential threats, ideally upon each execution.

Ad blockers only protect you from malvertising, not straight-up malicious web sites. These days, they're as important as A/V (and often more effective), but you really want both. Microsoft has in the past caught fewer viruses than even ClamAV (Windows Defender is lauded as "better than nothing, but it’s not a whole lot better. Most of the popular antivirus [solutions] can do better." I'd happily take the free solutions from Avira, Avast, AVG, or Panda over it. I currently suggest Avira to my friends and family, though I don't run Windows.

See also this security question on Stack Exchange, which shows how a similar misconception (protecting only filesystem edits) is similarly risky.

Apple copied everything from the iPaq, right down to the name.

http://img.tomshardware.com/cn...

You HONESTLY think THAT looks like a iPhone?!? Seriously?

Look at the Samsung phone and then look at the iPaq. Which one do YOU think looks like an iPhone, and which one looks like a Palm Pilot?

FFS, if you think THAT's the case, then my WALLET looks like an iPhone (and it doesn't).

Apple copied everything from the iPaq, right down to the name.

http://img.tomshardware.com/cn...

Tom's Hardware tested the power consumption of AMD's reference card and saw that could draw more power from both the motherboard and the 6-pin power connector than the PCI Express specification allows for either of them.

I would wait a while before this issue is resolved. Maybe the issue could be fixed with a driver update, in which case only benchmarks done after the driver update would matter.
Maybe a non-reference card will be released with an 8-pin power connector and better power distribution.

Bull crap? Oh 11.6" and the touchpad is rather good? Yeah great points, list all those important details.

You're comparing a laptop APU to the XB1 APU why? You're trying to make a point but that point isn't getting across. Is the XB1 more powerful than your laptop? Yes, of course it is. You're claiming you have "the same CPU and GPU as the Xbox1" but then go on to say the XB1 is more powerful, that is because you don't have "the same CPU and GPU as the Xbox1".

You have 4GB RAM? really? I didn't realize that your computer model was the only one available on the market? you've showed me! How could I have been so wrong? /s

The optical point you made is absolutely false. The XB1 Blu-Ray is x6 ( i.e. 216 Mb/s - 27 MB/s). Now when you read this you'll probably be confused since you claimed "100MB/s" for the harddrive. First, MB is Megabyte, Mb is Megabit, there is a big difference my friend. If what you said was true that would mean the HDD could transfer @ 800 Megabit, which of course is ridiculous. The realistic speed for that HDD is 80Mb/s. So lets see 80 Mb/s equals 10 MB/s. So are you still claiming the HDD is faster than the optical drive? Because that is "Bull crap", yes it is true, the XB1 optical media is actually faster than the HDD.

Oh the HDD is faster than a SD card? Really?! Maybe the shitty $2 ones you buy, you should actually research your BS before you make those statements.

Sequential Read Benchmarks from 2014

Random Read Benchmarks from 2014

The top performing SD cards are neck and neck the the HDD benchmarks for the HDD in the XB1.

Bull crap? Oh 11.6" and the touchpad is rather good? Yeah great points, list all those important details.

You're comparing a laptop APU to the XB1 APU why? You're trying to make a point but that point isn't getting across. Is the XB1 more powerful than your laptop? Yes, of course it is. You're claiming you have "the same CPU and GPU as the Xbox1" but then go on to say the XB1 is more powerful, that is because you don't have "the same CPU and GPU as the Xbox1".

You have 4GB RAM? really? I didn't realize that your computer model was the only one available on the market? you've showed me! How could I have been so wrong? /s

The optical point you made is absolutely false. The XB1 Blu-Ray is x6 ( i.e. 216 Mb/s - 27 MB/s). Now when you read this you'll probably be confused since you claimed "100MB/s" for the harddrive. First, MB is Megabyte, Mb is Megabit, there is a big difference my friend. If what you said was true that would mean the HDD could transfer @ 800 Megabit, which of course is ridiculous. The realistic speed for that HDD is 80Mb/s. So lets see 80 Mb/s equals 10 MB/s. So are you still claiming the HDD is faster than the optical drive? Because that is "Bull crap", yes it is true, the XB1 optical media is actually faster than the HDD.

Oh the HDD is faster than a SD card? Really?! Maybe the shitty $2 ones you buy, you should actually research your BS before you make those statements.

Sequential Read Benchmarks from 2014

Random Read Benchmarks from 2014

The top performing SD cards are neck and neck the the HDD benchmarks for the HDD in the XB1.

Tom's Hardware says 30% core performance increase from Ivy Bridge to Skylake, wither lower power consumption by SkyLake.
That's not not getting faster.

They summarize..

"Sandy/Ivy Bridge users:

This time it's a yes. Sandy Bridge and Ivy bridge are both getting pretty old by now, and upgrading to Skylake will yeld a 30-45% (45% if your a sandy user) increase in performance. You will also get the latest technologies from Skylake, namely power efficiency, a variety of USB ports, high speed LAN, and probably the biggest upgrade will be high speed storage. Together, all these features makes it a worthy upgrade to Skylake."

No. http://www.tomshardware.com/re... Also, we've known about this for like a decade.

How did you reach that 1.2GB/h figure? It is dead wrong. One hour of Netflix HD video is 8GB, one hour of Amazon prime HD video is 9.8GB.
Are you a Verizon shill lying through your teeth?

Just from the first website that came from a google search (source). I didn't research any further, mostly because even at those figures I was able to show it doesn't take much data to fill my Verizon data plan. If your numbers are more accurate, it even further validates my contention that it doesn't take much usage to max out a standard mobile data plan.

...a power supply rated at 500 W can deliver 500 W of power to the system regardless of its efficiency, the efficiency tells you how much power it must draw from the wall to deliver those 500 W it does not affect its output capacity, a 500 W power supply that is 90% efficient can deliever the same amount of power as one that is only 80% efficient. If the power supply is 80% efficient it needs 625 W(500/0.8) from the wall, those extra 125 W are turned into heat by the power supply, while a 90% efficient unit would only be drawing 555 W from the wall, meaning it is dissipating only 55 W as heat, or only 44% of the heat the 80% efficient unit was creating.

- Toms Hardware

So, your single point of data is more important than tests that have actually been run?

http://techreport.com/review/2...

I would love to see the spinning disk that can handle 2.1 petabytes being written to it. But of course you have run the thousands of tests for years on end needed to identify the unreliability of SSDs vs HDD.

http://www.tomshardware.com/re...

This has been done before.... Both outside/middle dual heads and dual independent actuators on each side. Multi heads can increase performance, but cost space, power, and money. Also more parts = lower MTBF. They don't increase storage density. If you want performance use SSD.

http://www.tomshardware.com/ne...

OpenGL was supposed to be a cross-platform semi-open standard for 3D graphics.

Tom can do a better job than I of explaining how it compares to DirectX. ...Microsoft markets the crap out of DirectX, which does make a difference.

800x600 / 1024x768 / 1280x1024 and so on was the standards of the CRT era but the first LCD/TFT monitors ...

Here's a TomÂs hardware article from 2004:
http://www.tomshardware.com/re...
"Getting hold of a suitable TFT panel presents no difficulties, as we said before: an old 15.1" flatscreen monitor makes the ideal basis for building a powerful projector. Most displays offer a physical resolution of 1024x768 (i.e. 786,432) pixels, for playing back high-quality DVD videos or displaying the Windows screen. Some models even offer resolution of 1280x1024 pixels, making them suitable for 3D games, too."
"The table above lists the principal resolutions; note that resolutions higher than SXGA are seldom available in 15" format."

That was using older monitors though.. But still, I don't really think the majority used 1080p 10 years ago, even less played games in it.

whoa there! The article you quoted is misleading. First off, it lists Recommended Power Supplies. This is NOT the same as the power draw by the GPU. This is the manufacturers recommendation of what you need to ensure stable performance of EVERYTHING in the PC with that card installed. The higher end the card, the greater the recommended minimum, partly to compensate for increased GPU needs, but also because the kind of people that run these cards are likely to have a crap load of other stuff that needs feeding as well. Who runs these cards? Gamers. Anyone that does serious PC gaming uses Steam for at least some games. Guess what? Steam does an opt-in hardware survey on a regular basis. While I'm sure they keep it anonymous, I'm also sure they sell that useful data to companies like NVIDIA and AMD. They KNOW what kind of total system power draw the buyers of a particular card have and can certainly extrapolate to a new card.

Anyway, even a screamer like the NVIDIA GTX Titan X is drawing less than 250 watts at max load (the SLI entries on your link are running multiple linked cards). Here's a power consumption test by Tom's Hardware http://www.tomshardware.com/re....
GPU's need a lot of power relative to other components, but they are in fact extremely efficient devices. Every new batch of cards that comes out manages to outperform the last AND use less power doing it.

I thought laptop CPUs were likely to be soldered down rather than socketed. This article states that some still are this way, especially a MacBook, an Ultrabook, or a netbook. And even on those laptops with a socketed CPU, this forum post states that finding new CPUs compatible with the motherboard or new motherboards compatible with the form factor is difficult. What am I thinking of?

Here you go. Follow the youtube links.

So asking about an OS architecture and its capabilities is trolling now? Well wtf is the point of asking questions here, lets all just wave our little flags like a bunch of fanbois, shall we?

And how does it not have to do with the OS being primitive when it comes to multitasking when PCs have been able to do this for years and do so with ease? I get that for the majority of its life consoles have been single tasking systems but surely they could hire some OS developers to get them up to speed, yes? Because even my netbook APU (which is the chip they based the Jaguar on) can easily switch from a game like Grimlock to a howto page within a couple seconds, faster if I could be arsed to swap out the 5400RPM HDD to an SSD.

So are these OSes simply incapable of FIFO round robin processing? Or have the companies that made them simply decided this was not something worth pursuing? Because dedicating an entire X86 APU to the UI, let alone two? I'm sorry but you can scream and whine all you want, that is wasteful and inefficient as hell which is why PCs,be they Apple,Linux, or Windows do not do this, in fact the last personal computers that did such a thing was IIRC the first edition of BeOS.

I've not done an in depth study of their cores but since the Jaguar is the chip in the Athlon 5350 which is a chip I've built several systems with? Well if that chip, which has half the cores and only DDR-3 memory, can game and multitask quite easily with only a couple seconds delay? Then I see no reason why the PS4 and XB1 cannot do the same unless its a software issue.

And it isn't flag waving to point out when an OS has capabilities another apparently does not, or would you consider it being a fanboi to point out that Linux is better at HPC tasks due to the design of its kernel while Windows has a UI better designed for desktops? Its a part of the OS design, a company can choose to make an OS better or faster at specific tasks, its all a trade-off. But I seriously doubt even you are gonna seriously set here and argue that when you are dealing with a netbook APU (read the AMD whitepapers or press releases on Jaguar, they make it quite clear in the first paragraph that they designed the chip for netbooks and tablets) which already has limited processing power due to its ULV nature that locking away 25% of its power strictly for the OS is a good design choice, or are you gonna really argue that OSes are better if they lock away resources from the programs and user?

He's comparing the Iris Pro 6200 to AMD's offerings. And he is somewhat right: http://www.tomshardware.com/re....

PC gaming is a larger market than all other platforms... COMBINED.

What are you drinking because I want some!

PC Gaming is expected to see worldwide revenue of $27 billion in 2017.

As you can see, PC Gaming and Console revenue worldwide is pretty comparable in 2015. Both pull in a bit under $25 billion.

According to Gartner, the Gaming industry was projected to be $111 billion in 2015.

So, if Gartner's projection was roughly right, and PC Gaming & Console Gaming's worldwide revenues are about $25 billion each, who is grabbing the remaining $61 billion? Well, according to Digital-Capital, a game investment bank, the future is mobile gaming.

But that is a short sighted approach, and therein lies the why you are looking for.

The desktop has been ruled by Windows for decades and it doesn't show any signs of changing, however many developers have also invested in the second-biggest player in the market: Apple. Using cross-platform/portable technologies is always a good idea, but there's still little reason to actually support Linux.

Game devs, hardware vendors, and most general software developers have all their eggs in the Microsoft basket.

No, a great many support OS X as well and often use cross-platform frameworks like Qt that run on GNU/Linux but there is still no reason to target and support GNU/Linux.

Microsoft has long released a product that runs slower, takes more of your system resources

Wrong, it has become faster and using less resources over time, the current version is less resource hungry than the version that preceded it and that was faster than the one that preceded that.

and now also spies on you

You can actually turn off all that, plenty of guides on the net if you struggle with the privacy settings dialog.

and forces you to use a terrible user interface.

Could you explain the differences of the "terrible user interface" with regard to somebody using, say Photoshop? Because all the applications I have used on Windows 10 don't look any different than they did on any version that preceded it.

Gnu/Linux by design does not operate as a single basket but rather an open standard that gives you a choice of basket.

Given this whole "systemd" debacle it would seem that GNU/Linux is fundamentally dependent on RedHat and that creating/maintaining your own distribution outside of that channel is impractical.

Salt water is hella corrosive. It's really not about potable water, it's about water which wants to eat through most anything.

Now, I have no idea what Google has salt water contained in, but having lived in coastal areas and visited coastal areas ... salt water pretty much eats everything near it even if it isn't in direct contact.

You don't need to pump it inside, and you don't need to pump it through anything but PVC. In other words, all you have to do is get it from the cold spot in the ocean to the heat exchangers, and then back out into the ocean.

Here's the video that tells what they did in 2011: http://www.tomshardware.com/ne...

It's not doesnt have passive cooling ( http://www.tomshardware.com/ga... ) look at that fan. So you comment is pointless.

One of the articles says the initial products will be PCIe and NVMe.

The Toms Hardware Article is much better:
http://www.tomshardware.com/ne...

Intel indicated the new memory would connect to the host system via the PCIe bus, which is yet another reason that Intel and Micron have been vocal proponents of NVMe. The NVMe protocol was designed from the ground up for non-volatile memory technologies, and not NAND in particular. Now it is apparent that Intel and Micron were laying the groundwork for something more as they developed the new protocol.

Clearly this memory will necessitate new motherboards. But I would also love to see this on Nvidia cards.

Nanoscale slider switches? ;-)

Seriously, though, it's some sort of material change according to what little information has been released.:

These columns contain a memory cell and a selector, but the real innovation is that unlike other technologies, which store data by trapping electrons in insulators (and other electron trapping techniques), 3D XPoint stores data by using the property change of the material itself. This bulk material property change utilizes the entire portion of the memory cell, which increases scalability and performance.

-- Tom's Hardware

What's really interesting is the PDF with one diagram showing Xpoint sooner and then 3D XPoint on the 2018-2019 timeline at Semicon Taiwan that later has a diagram much similar to Intel/Micron's diagram. It appears to be showing a variable resistor (potentiometer) then a diode between the word line and bit line crossbars.

If they are building a materials-based variable resistor that gets written to be more or less resistive based on voltage what are they calling that process? It needn't be chalcogenide, but it sure sounds like some other sort of phase change to change the resistance. If it is memory that adjusts its resistance based on past voltages and uses that resistance for reading the value, that sounds like a memristor. (According to Chua all PCM, ReRAM, and MRAM are memristors.)

I think perhaps Intel and Micron are saying it's not PCM and it's not memristors just so people don't confuse it with other attempts at similar but different approaches.

Now... if the charger also somehow wirelessly allowed your phone to interface to the screen... you'd have something, but we won't see bluetooth-like connectivity to displays for a probably five or six years down the road, at least.

Ohh you mean like this http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/smart-grid-gaming-software,3622.htmlgaming keyboard does since 2013?