... well suited for learning how to do any sort of embedded project - for any sort of vaguely desktop role the pi 2 is much faster/better. Develop with a 2, test on a B+ (which has all the ports the 0 and A+ don't), and then when you have something finished there deploy it on the zero.
At this level you ought to customize what you put around the pi0 - if a USB cable is too expensive/big, you can solder 5V leads onto the test points on the rear side. Same with SPI and other 3.3V IO. Use the smallest used non-counterfeit Sandisk class 2 microSD's. This kinda stuff.
Also looking backwards (and upwards!) part of the post mortem about LISP machines was that there was nothing cheap (at the time) to run finished code on.
And Intel will be cranking out killer x86 desktop chips by the end of next year, too. They already have killer mobile chips and will have even better ones (and dual-core!) early next year. It's just their current desktop line that sucks, and Apple isn't buying those.
Not until Intel has desktop chip power consumption down;) Right now it's just ridiculous... Intel desktop chips at idle are really close to the power draw of AMD's at full load. And Intel's need over 75 watts at load. Bleh.
How about "manufacturer releases LCD display where pixels don't commit suicide as soon as you look at the screen sideways"
Samsung's PVA-based panels have delivered this for a while... they maintain purity at pretty much any angle.
I think Dell gave that up when they unfortunatly moved away from Intel-built motherboards. So the Dell 4100 is the last dimension with the proprietary supply, I think.
I think there are at least two different classes of Sparkles. You can usually tell them apart by the quality of the fan and vent grillings. If it has little underside venting and a cut-out fan grill, it's a cheaper one. The good ones have a lot of venting and a wire fan grill.
I suspect the Virtual Boy was a good idea, just done *way* too early. It would probably be workable with DS-level graphics, and if not now in about 2-3 years.
... since DVD-RAM (like 802.11a) is actually useful. It's just not common, but it's still out there and definitely has it's niche for people who want the most reliable read/write optical media.
I think the example you're looking for is DivX, which is no longer of any use to anybody, since the authentication server has been offline for years... all of the disks are just coasters now;)
Given the high power draw and heat of the Prescott P4, I wouldn't be too shocked to see some burn out.;) The current P4 motherboard power circuitry is also under huge strain, and that makes them more likely to burn out.
Non-nForce4 based (those chipsets run *hot*!) Athlon 64 boards will be more likely to last longer, since power consumption of the 90nm A64's is lower than what the boards are designed to handle.;)
Otherwise, looking back at stuff made a few years ago - I'd say the P2's have a longer lifecycle, largely because the 440BX chipset is much easier to work with than most of the K6's motherboards came with at the time. Also the motherboards made for P2's tended to be of higher quality, and hence more likely to be stable even now.
However these days with crapacitors on so many boards it'll be hard to guess which ones will still work without repair after five years!
Intel has a lower margin line - the Celeron - which they make out of every generation of chips. and they lack the capacity to make enough chipsets partially because they used the Centrino marketing campaign to get their chipsets in a higher percentage of notebooks...
As for a car analogy - right now Intel is making a line of very highly efficient, high MPG^Wpower-per-watt chips (the Pentium-M) and a line of gas^Wpower guzzling Pentium 4's. There are two main reasons that they haven't put the P4 aside yet - high megahertz (although not nearly as high as projected), and lower floating point/multimedia performance.
AMD's Athlon 64 is in the middle - more power consumption than the P-M, but it has the media performance that the P-M lacks so it can keep up with the P4 better.
The scary thing for AMD will be when Intel comes out with Merom/Conroe next year... Conroe will have even higher performance per mhz than the current Pentium-M, good if not very high performance per watt, and overall likely be something that will give AMD real fits. And it's quite possibly why Apple's switching to Intel.
I don't have one (yet) but the desktop Athlon 64's have various low power modes. The mobile ones are much nicer still, but they don't work on that many motherboards aparently, alas.
It dosen't have to be more expensive... both the.13u and.09u Pentium-M's are actually quite a bit smaller than either Northwood or Prescott even with the -M's larger L2 caches, and therefore actually cheaper to make. Intel's positioning simply allows them higher margins on the -M.
I downloaded a Fedora dvd iso last night on my 3000/256 cable modem... there was so much excess bandwidth that I got the best performance at 10KB/sec... with 340-360KB/sec down. Even going to 50% cut it a bit since there were so many packets to ACK, and it choked pretty badly at ~70%. YMMV, especially if there are fewer seeds.
This is a full Athlon CPU w/256K L2 at 1ghz, reduced to 9W max by (maybe) tweaking the process so it runs at 1.0V, which greatly reduces power draw. It has excellent performance per clock cycle and will run circles around any of the chips you mentioned.
When you have $4 billion in cash, you can finance almost any kind of expansion you want (except for buying out companies with more than $4 billion in market value) - you *are* the bank.
Heck, if Pixar can market it right, they could make stuff direct-to-DVD and make gobs of money... look at how many copies of Finding Nemo sold on release day!
The original Compaq iPaq was a revised version of the old DEC Itsy project, done by a Linux-friendly group back east. It's one of those things where it's a pity DEC didn't have more visionary management...
If it didn't have a 17" tube in it I'd consider one. I'd much rather have a pizza box eMac for the same price, since I'm an LCD convert who already has a pretty decent 17" and therefore don't want to cough up the extra $ for an iMac 17". That and my apartment already has too much stuff in it.
Part of why the manga is much more in depth was that it wasn't finished yet - Miyazaki worked on it on and off for several years after the movie was made. So the anime only roughly covers the first quarter of the manga story...
I remember reading things about Sledgehammer being due in 2001. I forget how legit those sources were, but if they were it was a heck of a lot more late than 6 months.
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... well suited for learning how to do any sort of embedded project - for any sort of vaguely desktop role the pi 2 is much faster/better. Develop with a 2, test on a B+ (which has all the ports the 0 and A+ don't), and then when you have something finished there deploy it on the zero.
At this level you ought to customize what you put around the pi0 - if a USB cable is too expensive/big, you can solder 5V leads onto the test points on the rear side. Same with SPI and other 3.3V IO. Use the smallest used non-counterfeit Sandisk class 2 microSD's. This kinda stuff.
Also looking backwards (and upwards!) part of the post mortem about LISP machines was that there was nothing cheap (at the time) to run finished code on.
And Intel will be cranking out killer x86 desktop chips by the end of next year, too. They already have killer mobile chips and will have even better ones (and dual-core!) early next year. It's just their current desktop line that sucks, and Apple isn't buying those.
Not until Intel has desktop chip power consumption down ;) Right now it's just ridiculous... Intel desktop chips at idle are really close to the power draw of AMD's at full load. And Intel's need over 75 watts at load. Bleh.
How about "manufacturer releases LCD display where pixels don't commit suicide as soon as you look at the screen sideways" Samsung's PVA-based panels have delivered this for a while... they maintain purity at pretty much any angle.
I think Dell gave that up when they unfortunatly moved away from Intel-built motherboards. So the Dell 4100 is the last dimension with the proprietary supply, I think.
... and it'd almost never crash. ;)
I think there are at least two different classes of Sparkles. You can usually tell them apart by the quality of the fan and vent grillings. If it has little underside venting and a cut-out fan grill, it's a cheaper one. The good ones have a lot of venting and a wire fan grill.
I suspect the Virtual Boy was a good idea, just done *way* too early. It would probably be workable with DS-level graphics, and if not now in about 2-3 years.
... since DVD-RAM (like 802.11a) is actually useful. It's just not common, but it's still out there and definitely has it's niche for people who want the most reliable read/write optical media.
;)
I think the example you're looking for is DivX, which is no longer of any use to anybody, since the authentication server has been offline for years... all of the disks are just coasters now
Given the high power draw and heat of the Prescott P4, I wouldn't be too shocked to see some burn out. ;) The current P4 motherboard power circuitry is also under huge strain, and that makes them more likely to burn out.
;)
Non-nForce4 based (those chipsets run *hot*!) Athlon 64 boards will be more likely to last longer, since power consumption of the 90nm A64's is lower than what the boards are designed to handle.
Otherwise, looking back at stuff made a few years ago - I'd say the P2's have a longer lifecycle, largely because the 440BX chipset is much easier to work with than most of the K6's motherboards came with at the time. Also the motherboards made for P2's tended to be of higher quality, and hence more likely to be stable even now.
However these days with crapacitors on so many boards it'll be hard to guess which ones will still work without repair after five years!
Intel has a lower margin line - the Celeron - which they make out of every generation of chips. and they lack the capacity to make enough chipsets partially because they used the Centrino marketing campaign to get their chipsets in a higher percentage of notebooks...
As for a car analogy - right now Intel is making a line of very highly efficient, high MPG^Wpower-per-watt chips (the Pentium-M) and a line of gas^Wpower guzzling Pentium 4's. There are two main reasons that they haven't put the P4 aside yet - high megahertz (although not nearly as high as projected), and lower floating point/multimedia performance.
AMD's Athlon 64 is in the middle - more power consumption than the P-M, but it has the media performance that the P-M lacks so it can keep up with the P4 better.
The scary thing for AMD will be when Intel comes out with Merom/Conroe next year... Conroe will have even higher performance per mhz than the current Pentium-M, good if not very high performance per watt, and overall likely be something that will give AMD real fits. And it's quite possibly why Apple's switching to Intel.
I don't have one (yet) but the desktop Athlon 64's have various low power modes. The mobile ones are much nicer still, but they don't work on that many motherboards aparently, alas.
It dosen't have to be more expensive... both the .13u and .09u Pentium-M's are actually quite a bit smaller than either Northwood or Prescott even with the -M's larger L2 caches, and therefore actually cheaper to make. Intel's positioning simply allows them higher margins on the -M.
I downloaded a Fedora dvd iso last night on my 3000/256 cable modem... there was so much excess bandwidth that I got the best performance at 10KB/sec... with 340-360KB/sec down. Even going to 50% cut it a bit since there were so many packets to ACK, and it choked pretty badly at ~70%. YMMV, especially if there are fewer seeds.
This is a full Athlon CPU w/256K L2 at 1ghz, reduced to 9W max by (maybe) tweaking the process so it runs at 1.0V, which greatly reduces power draw. It has excellent performance per clock cycle and will run circles around any of the chips you mentioned.
When you have $4 billion in cash, you can finance almost any kind of expansion you want (except for buying out companies with more than $4 billion in market value) - you *are* the bank.
Heck, if Pixar can market it right, they could make stuff direct-to-DVD and make gobs of money... look at how many copies of Finding Nemo sold on release day!
From what I can tell those old Apple Trinitrons, although small, are just as well made as the larger GDM's for HP/Sun/et al...
libavcodec (from ffmpeg, which mplayer uses) can decode that codec just fine, IIRC.
The original Compaq iPaq was a revised version of the old DEC Itsy project, done by a Linux-friendly group back east. It's one of those things where it's a pity DEC didn't have more visionary management...
That was Galactica 1980, which was also a joke...
If it didn't have a 17" tube in it I'd consider one. I'd much rather have a pizza box eMac for the same price, since I'm an LCD convert who already has a pretty decent 17" and therefore don't want to cough up the extra $ for an iMac 17". That and my apartment already has too much stuff in it.
Part of why the manga is much more in depth was that it wasn't finished yet - Miyazaki worked on it on and off for several years after the movie was made. So the anime only roughly covers the first quarter of the manga story...
Don't forget the wagging tail.
I remember reading things about Sledgehammer being due in 2001. I forget how legit those sources were, but if they were it was a heck of a lot more late than 6 months.