The main benefit that the pentium m brings to the table is less heat. As the pentium 4 was being ramped up for hi mhz levels it also increased greatly in heat and power consumption. Increased heat ='s noisier fans which is bad for systems like these which are probably going to be located in places like the living room.
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Most of the slashdotters already pointed out the other important stuff...
But I'd like to point out that the Itanium will not be competition for the Opteron in most cases. Itaniums are super expensive chips that run on servers and are totaly incompatible with x86 (32 bits or 64 bits) software unless it's in emulation mode in which it runs very slowly. If you were to run Itanium on x86 software then more then likely the opterons would easily win anyway.
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what if they could fabricate each core separately and then somehow connect the cpu's. Shouldn't be too hard to do in the factory. It wouldn't be as fast as a single core cpu's internal bus but it would be a heck of a lot better then mult cpu's in standard mobos now (like xeon's etc.).
Now how would overclocking void any warranties? In any case even if some company doesn't allow overclocking how would they find out.
I looked at the specs at the apple site and the dual g5 only supports 4 slots. That makes more sense for a desktop cpu.
Um... if your a skilled pc builder then $800 is easy to build for a quality system. This involves knowing which things like which processor you can buy that can be overclocked big time. Their are still some sub $100 dollar amd processors then can be overclocked over 50% and perform better then their $300 dollar counterparts while producing less heat then the newest p4's.
Also most mac components tend to be cheap... Did you know that the ati radeon 9600 pro is slower then the ati radeon 9500 pro? In fact you can overclock a ati radeon 9500 np to run faster then both. So if you take extreme hardware knowledge into mind you can easily build a quality system for $1200. Also Prove to me that you can run the apple system at ddr400 with eight memory slots... Most motherboards have a hard time running at that spec after filling 3 slots.
The Pentium scores you listed are from Pentium CPU's (not the xeons which did slightly higher) which are incapable of dual cpu operation. This was against a dual cpu system that was probably optimized well for dual use.
Whats interesting to note that the single pentium machine scored 836 in int performance and the xeons (dual machines) scored 840... Almost no performance increase from going dual here.
Because it's a closed platform you don't have multiple vendors for things like motherboards. Also things like video cards and everything else costs twice as much as the pc version.
Besides, even with the G5 the price is still not worth buying the mac. Have you looked at their G5 series? The hardware choice in it is very poor. The systems without the dual cpu system comes with extremely poor graphics cards. They come with the geforcefx 5200 which is far slower then the older generation 4200 by nvidia. It's hard to believe they'd put a $60 pc video card in a $2000 dollar machine.
You can easily build a $2000 dollar PC with a very fast processor (a p4 3.2 ghz is more then enough) and very fast everything else. With that kind of money you can easily get a rocket raid card and have a raid 0 array of multiple hard drives for awesome disk performance. You can also spend up to $400 to get an awesome video card for extreme graphics.
If i had mod points I'd mod you up... I looked at your calculations and they seemed very accurate. I pay around 10 cents per kilowatt with tax so I save even more money.
It's sad that only emotional posts with half-truths and myths get modded up the most. This is true for my posts as well.
The power requirements for the cpu alone is no where near 300 and 450 watts for intel and amd cpu's. Most people don't have powersupplies that good and it's not surprising to see new HP's, Compaq's, and Dell's come with 250 watt power supplies for the entire computer.
I believe it is sony policy to break even with selling hardware units. They don't like or need to have massive losses that microsoft is suffering because they are already beating the console (especially in the rest of the world).
You need high pressure and thick pipes to keep hydrogen in a container. Hydrogen molecules are also so small they can even go through some metals. This makes them far more susceptible to leaks.
Hydrogen molecules are pretty small... h2 (two hydrogen atoms) i think...
Hydrogen can go through metals and is probably far more susceptible to leaks then natural gas.
Why does it seem like a Nationally distributed pipeline system would be harder/more costly to create and maintain then large electrical wires to transfer energy.
You have a legitimate target in one area but you know your bomb will also damage some of the surrounding area thats not part of the target. You decide to drop that bomb anyway. This is typical of most of the bombings in civilian areas of Afganistan and Iraq in which many innocent civilians have died.
I'm sorry if this sounds like flamebait to anyone (possibly because it might be). But according to this guy I would be characterized in Group 3. I came here when I was seven years old. Just cuz my mother (it's always the mother) wants me to remember my culture and remember it well doesn't mean that she expects me to go against the U.S. Infact most people here like me are probably the same.
We do infact have cultural differences and I personally don't like some of what you characterize as western culture but that doesn't mean I'm against you acting your way. Also our cultures are becoming very similar anyway... Just look how India and China are changing as we speak. Both are becoming more western then ever before Mr. Racist.
I can see executor, president, or editor as male-neutral... but i haven't seen one mention or form of the word God in a non masculine way. A God is usually mail as in Jesus and or his 'Father' in Christianity. Thats probably why Goddess exists... There is no female or male form for your examples though.
One thing you must realize is that if you are a Muslim, you believe that information from the pre-Muhammad era has been incorrect in some way by the time Muhammed was born. A lot is similar but Allah has sent the verses of the Quran to his messenger Muhammed (SAW) because we needed a new guide and have strayed too far from the original beliefs. (This is not limited to just beliefs in multiple Gods and or Goddesses).
BTW, all religions are usually capitalized... not just Muslims.
As a muslim I must correct you. A more correct transliteration would sound like this. Allah-huu-akhbar. (key part you missed being the huu which sounds like who).
If anyone wants to know what that means... it's simply god is great or allah is great. Technically allah isn't a god as there is no sex associated with allah (god implies a masculine deity).
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The main benefit that the pentium m brings to the table is less heat. As the pentium 4 was being ramped up for hi mhz levels it also increased greatly in heat and power consumption. Increased heat ='s noisier fans which is bad for systems like these which are probably going to be located in places like the living room.
Most of the slashdotters already pointed out the other important stuff...
But I'd like to point out that the Itanium will not be competition for the Opteron in most cases. Itaniums are super expensive chips that run on servers and are totaly incompatible with x86 (32 bits or 64 bits) software unless it's in emulation mode in which it runs very slowly. If you were to run Itanium on x86 software then more then likely the opterons would easily win anyway.
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what if they could fabricate each core separately and then somehow connect the cpu's. Shouldn't be too hard to do in the factory. It wouldn't be as fast as a single core cpu's internal bus but it would be a heck of a lot better then mult cpu's in standard mobos now (like xeon's etc.).
Now how would overclocking void any warranties? In any case even if some company doesn't allow overclocking how would they find out. I looked at the specs at the apple site and the dual g5 only supports 4 slots. That makes more sense for a desktop cpu.
The four cores add up to only 32 billion operations right now according to the CNet article. They project that they won't reach 1 trillion until 2010.
Oops it looks like I misskimed the article on theinquirer, sorry about that.
Um... if your a skilled pc builder then $800 is easy to build for a quality system. This involves knowing which things like which processor you can buy that can be overclocked big time. Their are still some sub $100 dollar amd processors then can be overclocked over 50% and perform better then their $300 dollar counterparts while producing less heat then the newest p4's.
Also most mac components tend to be cheap... Did you know that the ati radeon 9600 pro is slower then the ati radeon 9500 pro? In fact you can overclock a ati radeon 9500 np to run faster then both. So if you take extreme hardware knowledge into mind you can easily build a quality system for $1200. Also Prove to me that you can run the apple system at ddr400 with eight memory slots... Most motherboards have a hard time running at that spec after filling 3 slots.
I can keep on giving examples but i'm tired.
The Pentium scores you listed are from Pentium CPU's (not the xeons which did slightly higher) which are incapable of dual cpu operation. This was against a dual cpu system that was probably optimized well for dual use.
Whats interesting to note that the single pentium machine scored 836 in int performance and the xeons (dual machines) scored 840... Almost no performance increase from going dual here.
Shitty nvidida geforce fx 5200 for the pc(64 mb version)... $60...for the mac... $120...
Because it's a closed platform you don't have multiple vendors for things like motherboards. Also things like video cards and everything else costs twice as much as the pc version.
Besides, even with the G5 the price is still not worth buying the mac. Have you looked at their G5 series? The hardware choice in it is very poor. The systems without the dual cpu system comes with extremely poor graphics cards. They come with the geforcefx 5200 which is far slower then the older generation 4200 by nvidia. It's hard to believe they'd put a $60 pc video card in a $2000 dollar machine.
You can easily build a $2000 dollar PC with a very fast processor (a p4 3.2 ghz is more then enough) and very fast everything else. With that kind of money you can easily get a rocket raid card and have a raid 0 array of multiple hard drives for awesome disk performance. You can also spend up to $400 to get an awesome video card for extreme graphics.
If i had mod points I'd mod you up... I looked at your calculations and they seemed very accurate. I pay around 10 cents per kilowatt with tax so I save even more money.
It's sad that only emotional posts with half-truths and myths get modded up the most. This is true for my posts as well.
The power requirements for the cpu alone is no where near 300 and 450 watts for intel and amd cpu's. Most people don't have powersupplies that good and it's not surprising to see new HP's, Compaq's, and Dell's come with 250 watt power supplies for the entire computer.
I believe it is sony policy to break even with selling hardware units. They don't like or need to have massive losses that microsoft is suffering because they are already beating the console (especially in the rest of the world).
You need high pressure and thick pipes to keep hydrogen in a container. Hydrogen molecules are also so small they can even go through some metals. This makes them far more susceptible to leaks.
Hydrogen molecules are pretty small... h2 (two hydrogen atoms) i think... Hydrogen can go through metals and is probably far more susceptible to leaks then natural gas.
Why does it seem like a Nationally distributed pipeline system would be harder/more costly to create and maintain then large electrical wires to transfer energy.
Well, it'd kinda look bad if we destroyed large portions of the country and killed lots of civilians when we said we would "Liberate" their country.
You have a legitimate target in one area but you know your bomb will also damage some of the surrounding area thats not part of the target. You decide to drop that bomb anyway. This is typical of most of the bombings in civilian areas of Afganistan and Iraq in which many innocent civilians have died.
I'm sorry if this sounds like flamebait to anyone (possibly because it might be). But according to this guy I would be characterized in Group 3. I came here when I was seven years old. Just cuz my mother (it's always the mother) wants me to remember my culture and remember it well doesn't mean that she expects me to go against the U.S. Infact most people here like me are probably the same.
We do infact have cultural differences and I personally don't like some of what you characterize as western culture but that doesn't mean I'm against you acting your way. Also our cultures are becoming very similar anyway... Just look how India and China are changing as we speak. Both are becoming more western then ever before Mr. Racist.
I can see executor, president, or editor as male-neutral... but i haven't seen one mention or form of the word God in a non masculine way. A God is usually mail as in Jesus and or his 'Father' in Christianity. Thats probably why Goddess exists... There is no female or male form for your examples though.
One thing you must realize is that if you are a Muslim, you believe that information from the pre-Muhammad era has been incorrect in some way by the time Muhammed was born. A lot is similar but Allah has sent the verses of the Quran to his messenger Muhammed (SAW) because we needed a new guide and have strayed too far from the original beliefs. (This is not limited to just beliefs in multiple Gods and or Goddesses).
BTW, all religions are usually capitalized... not just Muslims.
The RIAA has much more experience in fighting in the courtroom and washington with concern to file sharing.
As a muslim I must correct you. A more correct transliteration would sound like this. Allah-huu-akhbar. (key part you missed being the huu which sounds like who).
If anyone wants to know what that means... it's simply god is great or allah is great. Technically allah isn't a god as there is no sex associated with allah (god implies a masculine deity).
No longer required... they usually stop themselves nowadays after either blowing themselves with explosives or crashing into buildings.