Are the batteries completely to blame? What about the cooling design? Apple released a firmware update sometime back that increased fan usage that helped overheating problems on some of their systems. Couldn't this all actually go down as a system integration problem - to at least share the responsibility of Dell and Apple with Sony?
If there is anything to this approach on the problem, I find it very interesting how company product politics and consumer ignorance may be playing into this. Have Dell and Apple entered any Sony-dominated markets lately?
Also, does anyone know if a cooler CPU uses less electricity to compensate for the extra fan usage draw? I imagine not, since it's still probably producing the same inefficiency (electricity->heat), but that it's just being pulled away faster...
A moonbase has little navigational benefit to further Mars exploration - this is purely military. If you think about it in this context, it's the obvious move. Just consider recent/. articles regarding the militarization of space. Learning about other planets is interesting in our spare time. Dominating this one is task #1 and it's not something you get to vote on.
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Are the batteries completely to blame? What about the cooling design? Apple released a firmware update sometime back that increased fan usage that helped overheating problems on some of their systems. Couldn't this all actually go down as a system integration problem - to at least share the responsibility of Dell and Apple with Sony?
If there is anything to this approach on the problem, I find it very interesting how company product politics and consumer ignorance may be playing into this. Have Dell and Apple entered any Sony-dominated markets lately?
Also, does anyone know if a cooler CPU uses less electricity to compensate for the extra fan usage draw? I imagine not, since it's still probably producing the same inefficiency (electricity->heat), but that it's just being pulled away faster...
A moonbase has little navigational benefit to further Mars exploration - this is purely military. If you think about it in this context, it's the obvious move. Just consider recent /. articles regarding the militarization of space. Learning about other planets is interesting in our spare time. Dominating this one is task #1 and it's not something you get to vote on.