If you look at "take apart" pictures on the web, it looks like about one-third to half of the PS3 by volume is heatsink. It has a single large fan that spins slowly, vs. two small fans on the 360.
You can use the same principles to build quiet computers- large heatsinks with big, slow fans cool more quietly and more effectively.
According to the story, Gizmodo was there under actual press credentials, not the second-class blogger pass. And I haven't heard of any other pranks, so don't go blaming a whole "underclass."
This was no big deal. They should ban the guy who did it and move on.
I'll take the $99 barebones version, please. Along with a dual-core Celeron and a gig of RAM. I've got a hard drive already, thanks.
Seriously, though, computers this cheap are impulse-buy territory. So it's not powerful; since it's not running Vista or 3D games, it doesn't have to be.
"Exploit Found to Brick Most HP and Compaq Laptops"
Well, I have a Compaq Presario C500T...
"The exploit uses an ActiveX control in HP's Software Update. It would 'let an attacker corrupt Windows' kernel files..."...which I installed Ubuntu on. Oh well.
Here's an idea (and not a new one): a single-stage-to-orbit vehicle equipped with both scramjets and a rocket engine. If you can get up to 100,000 feet and Mach 6 on scramjet power, wouldn't that dramatically reduce the rocket's fuel requirements for going the rest of the way?
Right- and because the OLPC's software is entirely open-source, it can be recompiled to any architecture. They could put a MIPS or PPC processor in the next version and it won't make any difference as far as the users are concerned.
I'd say so. Even if you lowball the Drake Equation, there are still probably hundreds of inhabited planets in this galaxy and millions in the universe.
BootCamp does absolutely nothing but provide a GUI for resizing HFS+ partitions and a Windows driver disk. It does not allow the installation of non-Mac OSs.
That comes from the legacy BIOS support in the EFI. You can take a brand new Mac off the shelf, boot it on a Windows CD, reformat the drive and install without ever touching OS X if you like. Of course, you'll be on your own for drivers.
I am not a registered Wikipedia user, so anything I do is anonymous. I've only made a few (3 or 4) edits to articles, always to fix minor typos or spelling errors I've seen while reading.
Every time I have done so, it has been rolled back within minutes, which I assume means that registered editors are watching for anonymous changes and removing them no matter what. As a result, my current attitude towards Wiki editors can be summarized with the words "fuck you."
Hopefully, some of those pricks will read this article and change their attitude, but I doubt it.
Exactly. I don't see the problem. If a model number doesn't make sense, just look it up (there's this thing called the internet now), and you'll have all the information you desire.
I've yet to see a single Barcelona-core processor for sale at retail, and AMD only sent samples to one or two review sites. K10 was essentially a paper launch.
I imagine that the hard drive is the single biggest point of failure on "classic" iPods. The player gets bounced around, the drive packs it in, and if it's a warranty repair that's Apple's money down the drain.
Eliminate the hard drive, and that leaves the battery and the screen as the only failure-prone components.
So what did the Core 2 leaks do to Pentium D sales? I'd guess not much. Enthusiast homebuilders were all AMD at that point, and major OEMs don't care about performance as they sell computers to people who have no idea what processor is inside the beige box.
I bet the Core 2 leaks did more to hurt AMD sales, as homebuilders held off for a month or two.
The HD2600 is an acceptable, but not great, mid-range card. It probably won't do well with action games, at least not at the high resolutions of the iMac displays. It should be "good enough" now, but in three years it will probably be laughable.
Also, I do believe the graphics on the base model are a downgrade. At $1199 it goes from an X1600 on the previous iMac to an HD2400 now, and I think the older card had better performance.
Those three graphics cards alone are probably going to need a 750 Watt power supply. Add in the processor and other components, and the system in those pictures is likely running on 1000W.
Meh. No amount of performance is worth that. Not to me, anyway.
(As others have said, Moore's Law has nothing to do with processor power)
Cheap laptops are leveraging advancement in computer technology in reverse. Think of it this way: A fast, high-end computer costs about $2000. A fast, high-end computer five years ago also cost about $2000.
So figure the new computer is 10x faster than the old one (I pulled that out of my ass). The idea is that something equivalent to the five year old machine can be built, today, for 10% of the cost of a new one using modern tech.
Not by itself, it can't. It needs at least a moderately powerful processor attached to it. Integrated graphics still offload a lot of work to the CPU.
Note that the AppleTV, with a ULV 1GHz Pentium M, needs a Geforce 7300 chip in it to play 720p video. If Apple could run this thing with Intel integrated graphics, they would, to reduce heat and save money. However, to do HD video with GMA950, you'd need to move up to "budget laptop" specs, probably at least a modern 1.5GHz single-core processor. To play 1080p video with integrated graphics, a dual-core processor (or very powerful single-core) is necessary. (to continue with the Apple example, the now discontinued Core Solo Mac mini could not play 1080p without dropping frames, while the Core Duo mini has no problem with this)
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I was informed, much to my surprise, that my email address is invalid. Huh.
If you look at "take apart" pictures on the web, it looks like about one-third to half of the PS3 by volume is heatsink. It has a single large fan that spins slowly, vs. two small fans on the 360.
You can use the same principles to build quiet computers- large heatsinks with big, slow fans cool more quietly and more effectively.
I think Taco was making a joke, yo.
I guarantee you the sales guys at Apple have no knowledge of future products.
According to the story, Gizmodo was there under actual press credentials, not the second-class blogger pass. And I haven't heard of any other pranks, so don't go blaming a whole "underclass."
This was no big deal. They should ban the guy who did it and move on.
I'm sure astronomers were really hoping that this would happen. It would have been the scientific event of the decade.
I'll take the $99 barebones version, please. Along with a dual-core Celeron and a gig of RAM. I've got a hard drive already, thanks.
Seriously, though, computers this cheap are impulse-buy territory. So it's not powerful; since it's not running Vista or 3D games, it doesn't have to be.
"Exploit Found to Brick Most HP and Compaq Laptops"
...which I installed Ubuntu on. Oh well.
Well, I have a Compaq Presario C500T...
"The exploit uses an ActiveX control in HP's Software Update. It would 'let an attacker corrupt Windows' kernel files..."
Here's an idea (and not a new one): a single-stage-to-orbit vehicle equipped with both scramjets and a rocket engine. If you can get up to 100,000 feet and Mach 6 on scramjet power, wouldn't that dramatically reduce the rocket's fuel requirements for going the rest of the way?
Right- and because the OLPC's software is entirely open-source, it can be recompiled to any architecture. They could put a MIPS or PPC processor in the next version and it won't make any difference as far as the users are concerned.
I'd say so. Even if you lowball the Drake Equation, there are still probably hundreds of inhabited planets in this galaxy and millions in the universe.
If they exist, they're all looking at the stars.
1) Find the most dangerous intersection in town
2) Sit there until someone gets in an accident
BootCamp does absolutely nothing but provide a GUI for resizing HFS+ partitions and a Windows driver disk. It does not allow the installation of non-Mac OSs.
That comes from the legacy BIOS support in the EFI. You can take a brand new Mac off the shelf, boot it on a Windows CD, reformat the drive and install without ever touching OS X if you like. Of course, you'll be on your own for drivers.
I've known this ever since my cat started receiving anonymous death threats. Crazy neighbors.
They could have been in a bunker half a mile away, and that would have helped.
I am not a registered Wikipedia user, so anything I do is anonymous. I've only made a few (3 or 4) edits to articles, always to fix minor typos or spelling errors I've seen while reading.
Every time I have done so, it has been rolled back within minutes, which I assume means that registered editors are watching for anonymous changes and removing them no matter what. As a result, my current attitude towards Wiki editors can be summarized with the words "fuck you."
Hopefully, some of those pricks will read this article and change their attitude, but I doubt it.
Exactly. I don't see the problem. If a model number doesn't make sense, just look it up (there's this thing called the internet now), and you'll have all the information you desire.
I've yet to see a single Barcelona-core processor for sale at retail, and AMD only sent samples to one or two review sites. K10 was essentially a paper launch.
I imagine that the hard drive is the single biggest point of failure on "classic" iPods. The player gets bounced around, the drive packs it in, and if it's a warranty repair that's Apple's money down the drain.
Eliminate the hard drive, and that leaves the battery and the screen as the only failure-prone components.
So what did the Core 2 leaks do to Pentium D sales? I'd guess not much. Enthusiast homebuilders were all AMD at that point, and major OEMs don't care about performance as they sell computers to people who have no idea what processor is inside the beige box.
I bet the Core 2 leaks did more to hurt AMD sales, as homebuilders held off for a month or two.
The HD2600 is an acceptable, but not great, mid-range card. It probably won't do well with action games, at least not at the high resolutions of the iMac displays. It should be "good enough" now, but in three years it will probably be laughable.
Also, I do believe the graphics on the base model are a downgrade. At $1199 it goes from an X1600 on the previous iMac to an HD2400 now, and I think the older card had better performance.
I can think of one big difference- I've never seen a video of DNF gameplay, while there's a new Spore demo vid every few months.
Those three graphics cards alone are probably going to need a 750 Watt power supply. Add in the processor and other components, and the system in those pictures is likely running on 1000W.
Meh. No amount of performance is worth that. Not to me, anyway.
(As others have said, Moore's Law has nothing to do with processor power)
Cheap laptops are leveraging advancement in computer technology in reverse. Think of it this way: A fast, high-end computer costs about $2000. A fast, high-end computer five years ago also cost about $2000.
So figure the new computer is 10x faster than the old one (I pulled that out of my ass). The idea is that something equivalent to the five year old machine can be built, today, for 10% of the cost of a new one using modern tech.
Not by itself, it can't. It needs at least a moderately powerful processor attached to it. Integrated graphics still offload a lot of work to the CPU.
Note that the AppleTV, with a ULV 1GHz Pentium M, needs a Geforce 7300 chip in it to play 720p video. If Apple could run this thing with Intel integrated graphics, they would, to reduce heat and save money. However, to do HD video with GMA950, you'd need to move up to "budget laptop" specs, probably at least a modern 1.5GHz single-core processor. To play 1080p video with integrated graphics, a dual-core processor (or very powerful single-core) is necessary. (to continue with the Apple example, the now discontinued Core Solo Mac mini could not play 1080p without dropping frames, while the Core Duo mini has no problem with this)