The new Maxwell stuff quite possibly has higher performance per watt than the Intel GPU. This may make the dedicated GPUs a bit more interesting again (and if the Intel GPU doesn't run, more watts can be spent on the CPU performance which can allow better framerate). Sure, stay modest enough on the wattage.
I'm with the others not understanding what you're on about with monitors, but indeed additional cooling is useful. The thing is no matter how efficient the CPU and GPU are, it's a product of the watt budget and how the laptop is designed. Depends on the thickness/thinness, heatsinks and fans, build quality etc. so it's really on a laptop per laptop basis.
Modern stuff also throttles, it gets slower when needed so the laptop won't melt itself, that plays in both sides.. Less chance of failure, but additional cooling now is needed to get higher performance and a cynical laptop vendor may exploit this by undersizing the cooling esp. with the model that has a bigger faster GPU.
At some point enough x86/x64 patents will expire that Nvidia will be able license the remaining ones and so an x64 chip of their own.
But after x64 there were SSE3, SSE 4.x, AVX, AVX2, now AVX512 coming soon. Those are the wide SIMD instructions. This stuff isn't strictly needed - yet, already SSE2 gets needed to run some 32bit code like some flash versions and codecs, this annoys some current Athlon XP users. Maybe some other stuff like hardware encryption is "protected".
So the fullest x86/x64 support will be left to AMD and Intel only for the foreseeable future. Nvidia is betting on ARMv8, with an ARMv8 + Kepler (of the GK208 variant) chip this year and probably ARMv8 + Maxwell next year.
Not that you seem to care, but nvidia is precisely launching a SECOND Maxwell chip with that laptop announcement, first was GM107 in desktop GTX 750 and Ti, now in 860M, 850M : it has five "SMM" and a 128bit bus. Second is GM108 in Geforce 830M and 840M, a smaller GPU with less SMM on 64bit bus. With DDR3 memory. That gives low performance, but it's clearly a low power low budget part.
Last time I watched Matrix 2 I found it nice and entertaining. It's an underrated movie. There's so much worse stuff out there (including the third movie) and Neo meeting "the architect" is mindless fun, I laugh at the complicated words and trying to understand what he means. The first movie feels old and tired (rewatching it is not rewarding as you know everything about it already) and it had the horrendous crap about mining bio-electricity. One bullshit line that ruins the whole series.
3) Traversing huge databases is a trivial thing with hugely parallel networked computers. See Google, who have one of the largest networks, along with Amazon, and apparently Microsoft also have a large one as well. (likely bullshit to make investors and fans interested in Azure and Xbox One respectively, especially dropping XBOnes online-only stuff)
But almost every movie or episode that shows "the database" ('not necessarily voice recognition stuff) has it display everyone's picture sequentially along with some ID and misc info. This would be completely impracticable even with Google's or similar network. It's the equivalent of taking a dictionary from first page and reading every definition aloud till you stimble on the word you were looking for. Even if the backend could do that, you'd be transfering all that crap to the local workstation so that the FBI/secret agents/hackers etc. can look at that flashy stuff. Google doesn't make 45 billion pages flash before your eyes and Amazon doesn't display 42 million product pictures when you look for something.
Amusingly, Star Trek shows do a better job of representing database searchs.
A giant ribbon was found in our neighborhood, only one link away, said researchers. It is one of the ten tallest ribbons or panels found on the web, being nearly 100 pixels tall. The ribbon's purpose seems to provide useful links and social "features", but we couldn't investigate much of this. The ribbon is unmovable even when you scroll the webpage, and its considerable height causes a gravitational lensing effect called "reading through a mail slot". Amazingly, a smaller rectangle was spotted nearby, it reads "feedback". It actually touches with your scrollbar! The whole result looks "modern" and slightly big, but scientists are puzzled that it feels so readable and non-annoying. Apparently, many other websites including previous submissions to slashdot were much worse.
I like it better on linux as I get the full "file edit view history.." menu per default. It looks good in a GTK2 desktop if the system-wide icon theme is decent. the worst thing with it is that I left myself open way too many tabs and keeping track of them is near impossible.
It would be relatively easy to backup this on "only" four 4TB disks. They could be in one USB3 enclosure each, or in an outdated PC (pentium 4 or something) that is turned on for backups only, whatever. A simple mechanism to make them appear as a single ~16TB volume or directory would be nice. Or perhaps optional. Or just use some real backup software. Maybe the backup will be so painfully long (days?) that a drive failure may be a concern.
On another note, I'd like a very easy and nice to use program that simply back ups the file names etc. ; I can afford easylier to lose music/movies if I have a list of what I actually had, so the good stuff easy-to-find can be found back and reconstituted.
Russia and North Korea share a 17 km border along the Tumen River. The border was created when Russia gained the territory of Outer Manchuria from China in the treaties of Aigun and Beijing in 1858 and 1860. The border area was regarded as peripheral within Russia for much of its history, regaining some importance during the Korean War as a transport route of weapons and aid from the Soviet Union. According to a Wikileaks cable from 2009, the border appears to be lightly militarized. No Chinese or North Korean troops are visible from the Russian side. There is an unobtrusive Russian outpost off to the side of the border, with a fairly large radar array.[1]
I agree. With computers that's easy, use desktops and repair or upgrade them. Use flashblock instead of getting a new motherboard + CPU. Phones are easy too, if I break or lose a phone I get given an old one, pay a fee to unlock in a shop and it just goes on working.. Batteries and chargers are easier to get nowadays.
The new Intels (call it Atom, Silvermont or Bay Trail) are incredibly power efficient and advanced (22nm FinFET) while at the same time ARM got more power hungry than before - if you want to use Cortex A15. So I don't think we have to care very much.
Windows 8 is "dual OS" already, running on the same NT kernel but using the "multiple personalities" feature I believe, that NT has had from the beginning. You have the desktop with a file manager and regular applications that have a "File Edit View.." menu, and the cell phone like interface and you switch between the two. Windows 8 + Android, which runs *not dual booted* but at the same time, should rather be called a "Triple OS".
As for the market need, it should be useful for those zillion specific apps for your town's bus and train schedules, ordering stuff in a supermarket's web store, connecting to some local government/agency/social service etc. This stuff is invariably for iOS and Android, nothing else.. For a US example, the IRS has an app for both but not a Metro app (maybe you DON'T want to keep up with the IRS or have the IRS keep up with you by means of tablet computer, it's only an example;) )
It makes the CPU think it has a COM port on a real ISA bus (and other stuff that makes the computer a real PC/AT compatible), if you need to go that far back.
You really should try Windows 7 32bit. Think about it, DOS and Windows 3.1 applications shouldn't run on XP either. It's all running in a virtual machine included with XP (and 2K, NT4 before) and still included in Windows 7. The CPU goes into "Virtual 8086 mode" (used in Windows 3.x already to multitask DOS applications), and the main reason the virtual machine is not included in 64bit editions of Windows is that when the CPU is in 64bit mode, Virtual 8086 is inaccessible (that's the way AMD made the architecture).
Win 7 works well on old hardware too, I've seen it on a PC from 2002, it can actually use XP drivers. I put a 2000/XP driver for the network card, and an old Catalyst for the Radeon 9200. The installer for the driver will most probably fail but you can look at the extracted files (or extract yourself with a program that can deal with.exe,.cab etc.) and pick the.inf manually from the device manager, using a GUI unchanged since Windows 95. The one software issue is you can't seem to be able to run graphical DOS apps (as well as not being able to fullscreen a text console), text mode DOS apps do work.
About serial ports I don't think there's a shortage of PCI and PCIe cards with them (plus RS232 still built-in on most motherboards, either at the back or on header). PCIe was designed to be software compatible with PCI by the way. Look at modern full ATX mobos with COM and LPT on the back (or no LPT if you don't need it) and at least two PCI slots. No shortage of them. Even DOS can still be run. The only problem I can see is if you need ISA slots. Even then some Pentium 3 or Athlon hardware could be tried, and more recent stuff with ISA can be ordered it's just rare and more expensive.
Talking to a PC via null modem, no matter how old the other PC, is possibly the farthest you can get from a situation where using a USB dongle craps out.
It changed between Windows 7 and 8.1, actually. The features in DirectX 11.2 depend on it (not that consumers need to care about 11.2 features in the immediate term). This makes it likely that D3D 12 will only run on Windows 8.1 and/or later.
The update from Vista to 7 doesn't count since it was backported to Vista and drivers provided by the hardware vendors were updated. But going from 7 to 8.1 some video cards are unsupported, notably Radeon 2000/3000/4000. If you have such a card you have to stay on Windows 7 or use linux with its own painful driver situation in this case (use Ubuntu 12.04 or similar to use the abandoned closed driver, or use Gentoo, Arch, Ubuntu 14.04 to try and see if the open driver now works properly)
I didn't want to get into details, but over here semi-private hotspots are popular and pretty ubiquitous (a significant subset of ISP provided routers double as a secure hotspot that doesn't interfere with the main user's home network). You them need codes related to the ISP at hand (some login/password). The use cases are if your DSL/broadband is down, or if your are on the move, or for "unofficial" use.
So that works in urban areas actually. Wifi isn't necessarily great if you connect to some router in the neighborhood, it goes through walls and perhaps congested spectrum and your transfer rates are limited and QoS'ed anyway. Still it can be very decent (with outage sometimes, high latency sometimes, low latency other times)
Very good point about the memory integration with modern GPU. It's especially relevant with the latest designs (Kaveri, Maxwell) and if you care about this you'll run Windows 8.1 or later.
These days people can use some wifi instead of paying for their own net connection. The resulting speed is highly situational but can be e.g. 70 to 90 KB/s downloads or less.
Wrong on the latter count, GPUs have a 256MB addressing window no matter the memory size.
For the rest, yes you're limited to 2TB hard drives, about 3GB memory, DirectX 9 games (a hell lot of games) and I don't know what's a WAN connection : home desktops tend to talk to a router. I will have to upgrade a buddy's computer from XP to 7, a computer that lives in all these limitations (including a really fast dual core CPUs) and it is a fucking great PC, fast, great looking, highly reliable, a few gorgeous games.
Security is the ONLY reason to upgrade it. Windows 7 will bring the taskbar with squares, a worse file manager, some more disk-thrashing, DirectX 11 and that's all.
It's worth changing that paste, I did on my AMD and went back to the 30 to 40C it ran at when new. It would do a hard and immediate shutdown when reaching 105 degrees.
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The new Maxwell stuff quite possibly has higher performance per watt than the Intel GPU. This may make the dedicated GPUs a bit more interesting again (and if the Intel GPU doesn't run, more watts can be spent on the CPU performance which can allow better framerate). Sure, stay modest enough on the wattage.
I'm with the others not understanding what you're on about with monitors, but indeed additional cooling is useful. The thing is no matter how efficient the CPU and GPU are, it's a product of the watt budget and how the laptop is designed. Depends on the thickness/thinness, heatsinks and fans, build quality etc. so it's really on a laptop per laptop basis.
Modern stuff also throttles, it gets slower when needed so the laptop won't melt itself, that plays in both sides.. Less chance of failure, but additional cooling now is needed to get higher performance and a cynical laptop vendor may exploit this by undersizing the cooling esp. with the model that has a bigger faster GPU.
At some point enough x86/x64 patents will expire that Nvidia will be able license the remaining ones and so an x64 chip of their own.
But after x64 there were SSE3, SSE 4.x, AVX, AVX2, now AVX512 coming soon. Those are the wide SIMD instructions. This stuff isn't strictly needed - yet, already SSE2 gets needed to run some 32bit code like some flash versions and codecs, this annoys some current Athlon XP users. Maybe some other stuff like hardware encryption is "protected".
So the fullest x86/x64 support will be left to AMD and Intel only for the foreseeable future.
Nvidia is betting on ARMv8, with an ARMv8 + Kepler (of the GK208 variant) chip this year and probably ARMv8 + Maxwell next year.
Not that you seem to care, but nvidia is precisely launching a SECOND Maxwell chip with that laptop announcement, first was GM107 in desktop GTX 750 and Ti, now in 860M, 850M : it has five "SMM" and a 128bit bus. Second is GM108 in Geforce 830M and 840M, a smaller GPU with less SMM on 64bit bus. With DDR3 memory. That gives low performance, but it's clearly a low power low budget part.
Last time I watched Matrix 2 I found it nice and entertaining. It's an underrated movie. There's so much worse stuff out there (including the third movie) and Neo meeting "the architect" is mindless fun, I laugh at the complicated words and trying to understand what he means. The first movie feels old and tired (rewatching it is not rewarding as you know everything about it already) and it had the horrendous crap about mining bio-electricity. One bullshit line that ruins the whole series.
3) Traversing huge databases is a trivial thing with hugely parallel networked computers. See Google, who have one of the largest networks, along with Amazon, and apparently Microsoft also have a large one as well. (likely bullshit to make investors and fans interested in Azure and Xbox One respectively, especially dropping XBOnes online-only stuff)
But almost every movie or episode that shows "the database" ('not necessarily voice recognition stuff) has it display everyone's picture sequentially along with some ID and misc info. This would be completely impracticable even with Google's or similar network.
It's the equivalent of taking a dictionary from first page and reading every definition aloud till you stimble on the word you were looking for. Even if the backend could do that, you'd be transfering all that crap to the local workstation so that the FBI/secret agents/hackers etc. can look at that flashy stuff.
Google doesn't make 45 billion pages flash before your eyes and Amazon doesn't display 42 million product pictures when you look for something.
Amusingly, Star Trek shows do a better job of representing database searchs.
A giant ribbon was found in our neighborhood, only one link away, said researchers. It is one of the ten tallest ribbons or panels found on the web, being nearly 100 pixels tall. The ribbon's purpose seems to provide useful links and social "features", but we couldn't investigate much of this. The ribbon is unmovable even when you scroll the webpage, and its considerable height causes a gravitational lensing effect called "reading through a mail slot". Amazingly, a smaller rectangle was spotted nearby, it reads "feedback". It actually touches with your scrollbar! The whole result looks "modern" and slightly big, but scientists are puzzled that it feels so readable and non-annoying. Apparently, many other websites including previous submissions to slashdot were much worse.
I like it better on linux as I get the full "file edit view history.." menu per default.
It looks good in a GTK2 desktop if the system-wide icon theme is decent.
the worst thing with it is that I left myself open way too many tabs and keeping track of them is near impossible.
It would be relatively easy to backup this on "only" four 4TB disks. They could be in one USB3 enclosure each, or in an outdated PC (pentium 4 or something) that is turned on for backups only, whatever.
A simple mechanism to make them appear as a single ~16TB volume or directory would be nice. Or perhaps optional. Or just use some real backup software.
Maybe the backup will be so painfully long (days?) that a drive failure may be a concern.
On another note, I'd like a very easy and nice to use program that simply back ups the file names etc. ; I can afford easylier to lose music/movies if I have a list of what I actually had, so the good stuff easy-to-find can be found back and reconstituted.
a quick check on the web :
Russia and North Korea share a 17 km border along the Tumen River. The border was created when Russia gained the territory of Outer Manchuria from China in the treaties of Aigun and Beijing in 1858 and 1860. The border area was regarded as peripheral within Russia for much of its history, regaining some importance during the Korean War as a transport route of weapons and aid from the Soviet Union. According to a Wikileaks cable from 2009, the border appears to be lightly militarized. No Chinese or North Korean troops are visible from the Russian side. There is an unobtrusive Russian outpost off to the side of the border, with a fairly large radar array.[1]
I agree. With computers that's easy, use desktops and repair or upgrade them. Use flashblock instead of getting a new motherboard + CPU. Phones are easy too, if I break or lose a phone I get given an old one, pay a fee to unlock in a shop and it just goes on working.. Batteries and chargers are easier to get nowadays.
The new Intels (call it Atom, Silvermont or Bay Trail) are incredibly power efficient and advanced (22nm FinFET) while at the same time ARM got more power hungry than before - if you want to use Cortex A15. So I don't think we have to care very much.
Windows 8 is "dual OS" already, running on the same NT kernel but using the "multiple personalities" feature I believe, that NT has had from the beginning. You have the desktop with a file manager and regular applications that have a "File Edit View.." menu, and the cell phone like interface and you switch between the two.
Windows 8 + Android, which runs *not dual booted* but at the same time, should rather be called a "Triple OS".
As for the market need, it should be useful for those zillion specific apps for your town's bus and train schedules, ordering stuff in a supermarket's web store, connecting to some local government/agency/social service etc. ;) )
This stuff is invariably for iOS and Android, nothing else.. For a US example, the IRS has an app for both but not a Metro app (maybe you DON'T want to keep up with the IRS or have the IRS keep up with you by means of tablet computer, it's only an example
Or they need to pour epoxy into the LAN and USB ports.
If only there was a way to put, say, a 16550A chip on the processor data bus and hook it into the port I/O logic... (/sarcasm)
Motherboards released in 2014 still use this as far as I know.
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It makes the CPU think it has a COM port on a real ISA bus (and other stuff that makes the computer a real PC/AT compatible), if you need to go that far back.
You really should try Windows 7 32bit. Think about it, DOS and Windows 3.1 applications shouldn't run on XP either. It's all running in a virtual machine included with XP (and 2K, NT4 before) and still included in Windows 7. The CPU goes into "Virtual 8086 mode" (used in Windows 3.x already to multitask DOS applications), and the main reason the virtual machine is not included in 64bit editions of Windows is that when the CPU is in 64bit mode, Virtual 8086 is inaccessible (that's the way AMD made the architecture).
Win 7 works well on old hardware too, I've seen it on a PC from 2002, it can actually use XP drivers. I put a 2000/XP driver for the network card, and an old Catalyst for the Radeon 9200. The installer for the driver will most probably fail but you can look at the extracted files (or extract yourself with a program that can deal with .exe, .cab etc.) and pick the .inf manually from the device manager, using a GUI unchanged since Windows 95.
The one software issue is you can't seem to be able to run graphical DOS apps (as well as not being able to fullscreen a text console), text mode DOS apps do work.
About serial ports I don't think there's a shortage of PCI and PCIe cards with them (plus RS232 still built-in on most motherboards, either at the back or on header). PCIe was designed to be software compatible with PCI by the way. Look at modern full ATX mobos with COM and LPT on the back (or no LPT if you don't need it) and at least two PCI slots. No shortage of them. Even DOS can still be run.
The only problem I can see is if you need ISA slots. Even then some Pentium 3 or Athlon hardware could be tried, and more recent stuff with ISA can be ordered it's just rare and more expensive.
Talking to a PC via null modem, no matter how old the other PC, is possibly the farthest you can get from a situation where using a USB dongle craps out.
Windows 8.1 has WDDM 1.3 you smart ass.
It changed between Windows 7 and 8.1, actually. The features in DirectX 11.2 depend on it (not that consumers need to care about 11.2 features in the immediate term).
This makes it likely that D3D 12 will only run on Windows 8.1 and/or later.
The update from Vista to 7 doesn't count since it was backported to Vista and drivers provided by the hardware vendors were updated. But going from 7 to 8.1 some video cards are unsupported, notably Radeon 2000/3000/4000. If you have such a card you have to stay on Windows 7 or use linux with its own painful driver situation in this case (use Ubuntu 12.04 or similar to use the abandoned closed driver, or use Gentoo, Arch, Ubuntu 14.04 to try and see if the open driver now works properly)
I didn't want to get into details, but over here semi-private hotspots are popular and pretty ubiquitous (a significant subset of ISP provided routers double as a secure hotspot that doesn't interfere with the main user's home network). You them need codes related to the ISP at hand (some login/password). The use cases are if your DSL/broadband is down, or if your are on the move, or for "unofficial" use.
So that works in urban areas actually. Wifi isn't necessarily great if you connect to some router in the neighborhood, it goes through walls and perhaps congested spectrum and your transfer rates are limited and QoS'ed anyway. Still it can be very decent (with outage sometimes, high latency sometimes, low latency other times)
Very good point about the memory integration with modern GPU. It's especially relevant with the latest designs (Kaveri, Maxwell) and if you care about this you'll run Windows 8.1 or later.
These days people can use some wifi instead of paying for their own net connection. The resulting speed is highly situational but can be e.g. 70 to 90 KB/s downloads or less.
So, JPEG2000 is dead and WebP not alive yet.
Wrong on the latter count, GPUs have a 256MB addressing window no matter the memory size.
For the rest, yes you're limited to 2TB hard drives, about 3GB memory, DirectX 9 games (a hell lot of games) and I don't know what's a WAN connection : home desktops tend to talk to a router.
I will have to upgrade a buddy's computer from XP to 7, a computer that lives in all these limitations (including a really fast dual core CPUs) and it is a fucking great PC, fast, great looking, highly reliable, a few gorgeous games.
Security is the ONLY reason to upgrade it. Windows 7 will bring the taskbar with squares, a worse file manager, some more disk-thrashing, DirectX 11 and that's all.
It's worth changing that paste, I did on my AMD and went back to the 30 to 40C it ran at when new. It would do a hard and immediate shutdown when reaching 105 degrees.