they need is a spec for "Standby" that says it can only consume enough energy to keep memory from erasing
Don't forget clocks. And the loss of ability to turn things on with a remote will be annoying.
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§ ita § - Jan 23, 2006 1:45:50 pm PST #6789 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
DCJensen - Jan 23, 2006 1:48:18 pm PST #6790 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
And the loss of ability to turn things on with a remote will be annoying.
Perhaps that can be kept to a minimum of energy consumption. A device powering up from almost-dead instead of mostly alive would save power, but still provide utility. The response might be a split second slower.
§ ita § - Jan 23, 2006 1:50:09 pm PST #6791 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
My assumption would be that they are only using as much power to be able to come on and run timers/clocks. But who knows what convenience engineering mandated.
le nubian - Jan 23, 2006 1:57:16 pm PST #6792 of 10003
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
question/poll:
how many playlists do you have on your ipod (and/or itunes)
Spidra Webster - Jan 23, 2006 1:58:28 pm PST #6793 of 10003
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
I'd be able to answer that if iTunes hadn't hosed my entire library last night. Grrrrrrr.
§ ita § - Jan 23, 2006 2:00:47 pm PST #6794 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
32. Maybe half of those are smart.
Jessica - Jan 23, 2006 2:21:39 pm PST #6795 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
15, 7 smart
Intel Dual Core Macs only about 20% faster than the old ones:
Macworld Lab’s tests do show that the new Intel-based iMac is faster than the iMac G5 when running native applications. However, we found that those improvements are generally much less than what Apple claims is a 2x improvement in speed.
Instead, our tests found the new 2.0GHz Core Duo iMac takes rougly 10 to 25 percent less time than the G5 iMac to perform the same native application tasks, albeit with some notable exceptions. (If you'd prefer, that makes the Core Duo iMac 1.1 to 1.3 times as fast.) And we also found that applications that aren’t yet Intel-native—which must run using Apple’s Rosetta code-translation technology—tend to run half as fast as the same applications running natively on the iMac G5.
DCJensen - Jan 23, 2006 2:46:03 pm PST #6796 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
I was under the impression that Apple and Steve Jobs never claimed it was real world performance.
Ah, yes, here it is. [link]
Testing conducted by Apple in December 2005 using preproduction 20-inch iMac units with 2GHz Intel Core Duo; all other systems were shipping units. All scores are estimated. SPEC is a registered trademark of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC); see www.spec.org for more information. Benchmarks were compiled using the IBM compiler and a beta version of the Intel compiler for Mac OS.
DCJensen - Jan 23, 2006 2:48:11 pm PST #6797 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
It doesn't surprise me that a computer manufacturer uses optimal numbers. They pretty much all do.
aurelia - Jan 23, 2006 2:50:40 pm PST #6798 of 10003
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
12 playlists, 8 smart
I was trying to de-frag the other day and got "The directory structures on disk "Macintosh HD" are too large for the current version of Norton Utilities." Any recommendations? I probably need to purge some stuff, but I don't think that's the issue at hand. I'm using Norton Systemworks 3.0, which includes Speed Disk 8.0.2.