How long before we saturate the PCI-E bus and need something faster?
In a way, it has already been replaced. PCIE V2 is the current standard. It's backwards and forwards compatible, and has twice the bandwidth of V1. V3 will double that bandwidth again.
It'll be quite a long time before it becomes obsolete.
The random access speed is what makes it seem faster, not the throughput. That's only about twice as fast as a good HDD in terms of throughput, but the access times are orders of magnitude lower.
I find the whole concept that we can destroy the Universe fundamentally ridiculous. Perhaps if the beam hits your ego...
I mean do you know what we are on that scale? We're specks even compared to the miniscule star we orbit. Itself a speck inside a cloud of billions of specks, amongst billions of billions of clouds of billions of specks.
Is the battery life better now that the UMD drive has been removed?
If you're running custom firmware on the x000 models, using an ISO of your game preserves a chunk of battery life. (not to mention loading times)
Despite the fundamental importance of operating time in a portable, Sony seems has no interest in improving it. They improve the efficiency of the console each revision and LOWER the battery capacity so the lifespan remains unchanged. The 2000 series weighs almost nothing so I don't understand what they're thinking by doing this.
I found both XP and standard Ubuntu to be perfectly acceptable in terms of responsiveness and performance. Neither is a CPU hog in this day and age, even on a netbook. If anything, the bottleneck seems to be disk access.
There was a time this level of performance was fast, and these OSes originate from that time. Things like PS CS4 are a different story of course.
It takes a surprising amount of computational power to emulate the GBA (and the SNES for that matter). Even the PSP emulators for them don't run at full speed 100% of the time.
The TB settings on the earlier Core chips were much more conservative.
Intel want to stay inside the rated TDP of the chip, but overclocking increases power consumption. However, unlike the older i7 series these newer chips can cut their usage down to nearly nothing when idle. As such they have more headroom for clock frequency increases.
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It won't run smooth, period.
The framerate was awful even on the consoles it was designed for. To add insult to injury, the PC port was rushed out in time for Christmas.
How long before we saturate the PCI-E bus and need something faster?
In a way, it has already been replaced. PCIE V2 is the current standard. It's backwards and forwards compatible, and has twice the bandwidth of V1. V3 will double that bandwidth again.
It'll be quite a long time before it becomes obsolete.
at that point it's just eye-for-an-eye.
We realised that was bullshit thousands of years ago. Try to keep up.
Moore's law predicts that the transistor count will double.
Yeah, but that's a matter of principle. This is a matter of money.
The random access speed is what makes it seem faster, not the throughput. That's only about twice as fast as a good HDD in terms of throughput, but the access times are orders of magnitude lower.
Intellectual dishonesty, or merely stupidity?
Use it.
Buying a used 360 was already dangerous because of the rather low reliabiliy of the hardware. Relatively speaking it's only a little worse now.
Here's my recommendation: go hog wild, people! I love your money.
On one hand, it's Sony.
:)
On the oth- Wait, never mind.
Almost everything.
I find the whole concept that we can destroy the Universe fundamentally ridiculous. Perhaps if the beam hits your ego...
I mean do you know what we are on that scale? We're specks even compared to the miniscule star we orbit. Itself a speck inside a cloud of billions of specks, amongst billions of billions of clouds of billions of specks.
And we can destroy all this? Heh, no.
The power structure matters more than the people in it.
Power corrupts. Limiting power limits the inevitable damage. The founders of the US knew this, hence the design.
The Indilinx controllers are not in the 'debacle' category by any measure.
What was quick about it? It was seven years, 1998 to 2005.
Is the battery life better now that the UMD drive has been removed?
If you're running custom firmware on the x000 models, using an ISO of your game preserves a chunk of battery life. (not to mention loading times)
Despite the fundamental importance of operating time in a portable, Sony seems has no interest in improving it. They improve the efficiency of the console each revision and LOWER the battery capacity so the lifespan remains unchanged. The 2000 series weighs almost nothing so I don't understand what they're thinking by doing this.
Yes, I checked and you're correct. I was mistakenly thinking of a Celeron-M comparison.
I found both XP and standard Ubuntu to be perfectly acceptable in terms of responsiveness and performance. Neither is a CPU hog in this day and age, even on a netbook. If anything, the bottleneck seems to be disk access.
There was a time this level of performance was fast, and these OSes originate from that time. Things like PS CS4 are a different story of course.
For anyone wondering why that's so bad, a 1.6GHz Atom is somewhere around an 800Mhz Pentium 3 in terms of performance.
If it's so bad, why the hell do they censor it when the point of the game is to lay waste to everything it stands for?
Of course, rationality is far too much to expect from a censorship board.
It takes a surprising amount of computational power to emulate the GBA (and the SNES for that matter). Even the PSP emulators for them don't run at full speed 100% of the time.
I thought power use scaled linearly with frequency, but with the square of the voltage.
The TB settings on the earlier Core chips were much more conservative.
Intel want to stay inside the rated TDP of the chip, but overclocking increases power consumption. However, unlike the older i7 series these newer chips can cut their usage down to nearly nothing when idle. As such they have more headroom for clock frequency increases.
They aren't mutually exclusive. Good plot and graphics can make a game fun.