Apple insider found a minor inconsistency in the Zune documentation and this is news?
The Zune software installed fine my copy of Vista Beta 2.
Can we please agree to get away from calling corporate mudslinging newsworthy? Its sinking really low to call a typo news worthy.
Actual performance of the PS3 and XBOX 360 will be no where near 1 terraflop.
I remember when the Neo-Geo 64 came out claiming to be a 64 bit machine because it had 4 16 bit processors inside of it. Gaming companies have always invented metrics to make their machines seem impressive. MS and Sony continue this tradition with there latest generation, throwing out Tflop numbers with recless abandon.
The measure MS and SONY are using is the number of dot products their system can do on giberish data in one second x 5 (a vector dot vector is 3 multiplies and two adds). The gibberish data is also never stored anywhere. In any real system you need to get the data from somewhere and put it to use somewhere else.
So people who aren't marketing boozos use a standard flop ranking like linpack htttp://www.netlib.org/linpack/ which uses real world math problems to benchmark the performance and has become a standard measure of supercomputer preformance.
I predict that if the xbox or ps were ever tested with linpack they would both be around 6 Mflop. I also predict that the xbox would outperform the PS3; mainly because progamming for Sonys cell processor is going to be a pain and getting the data flow right to optimize for a memory intesive benchmark will be a programming nightmare.
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Apple insider found a minor inconsistency in the Zune documentation and this is news? The Zune software installed fine my copy of Vista Beta 2. Can we please agree to get away from calling corporate mudslinging newsworthy? Its sinking really low to call a typo news worthy.
Actual performance of the PS3 and XBOX 360 will be no where near 1 terraflop. I remember when the Neo-Geo 64 came out claiming to be a 64 bit machine because it had 4 16 bit processors inside of it. Gaming companies have always invented metrics to make their machines seem impressive. MS and Sony continue this tradition with there latest generation, throwing out Tflop numbers with recless abandon. The measure MS and SONY are using is the number of dot products their system can do on giberish data in one second x 5 (a vector dot vector is 3 multiplies and two adds). The gibberish data is also never stored anywhere. In any real system you need to get the data from somewhere and put it to use somewhere else. So people who aren't marketing boozos use a standard flop ranking like linpack htttp://www.netlib.org/linpack/ which uses real world math problems to benchmark the performance and has become a standard measure of supercomputer preformance. I predict that if the xbox or ps were ever tested with linpack they would both be around 6 Mflop. I also predict that the xbox would outperform the PS3; mainly because progamming for Sonys cell processor is going to be a pain and getting the data flow right to optimize for a memory intesive benchmark will be a programming nightmare.