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... :/ it was a sarcasm directed at Intels "little netburst mistake"
Indeed. Some still like these "mistakes" though.
P-M is nothing more than beefed up Tualatin.
"Slimmed down" would be my description, but either works.
... :/ it was a sarcasm directed at Intels "little netburst mistake"
P-M is nothing more than beefed up Tualatin.
Hereabouts all trenches needs to be about 2+ meters deep, just to avoid
frost/thaw problems every year. 97% of Norway is hills, lakes, mountains
& fjords, with no regular road access underneath the power lines.
Terje said:I did try to locate one of the (norwegian) articles that's been written
about the system, just so that I could point you at some photos.
Black said:
In comp.arch Nick Maclaren said:In totally unpopulated areas, where there is a sufficient depth of
soil, yes. Otherwise, you may have problems. In the UK, there are
many areas where the earth is unstable because of the presence of
old, unmapped mining - usually a century or two old, but sometimes
a millennium old.
Grumble said:Will Intel put the Mobile Pentium 4 and Dothan in the same
category? Or will they pretend that the Mobile Pentium 4 is just a
*cough* "power-efficient" desktop Pentium 4?
No, but I spent a few of the coldest winters ever in Champaign-Urbana,
IL. The winters may be cold, but the summers are hot.
Canada also has something else in abundance that's of interest: cheap
hydro power.
Oh yeah, it's cheap alright. That's why our "cheap" Hydro-Quebec
power costs me $.12/kWh.
Sander said:I think you get very serious problems in totaly unpopulated areas with it
too. Consider for example that you need a way to get the people there, have
them be housed somewhere and get food / fuel to them. Totaly unpopulated
also tends to mean 'totaly roadfree'.
Grumble said:The one-dollar question is:
Will Intel put the Mobile Pentium 4 and Dothan in the same category?
Or will they pretend that the Mobile Pentium 4 is just a *cough*
"power-efficient" desktop Pentium 4?
BTW, the Pentium M is rated "higher" than Prescott (7xx vs 5xx).
Where I am (Saskatchewan), the urban residential rate is currently
$0.0795/kWh and Toronto is currently $0.081/kWh according to someone
I correspond with there. Urban commercial rates in Sask are
currently $0.0745/kWh. I know rural rates are significantly
higher but I don't have a dollar figure for you.
BTW, those are Canadian dollar numbers I cited, not YankeeBucks.
Discount by about 25% or 30% to get a rough estimate in YankeeBucks.
Hydro-Q (and other Canadian power utilities) sell their excess
juice south of the border in what amounts to a spot market.
Long term deals for cheap power to most parts of the US market
seem to have become a thing of the past - they went out the
window when deregulation came in down south.
Blame *your*
government for preventing your utilities from negotiating
long term deals for cheaper power.
As well, there are
tariffs levied by *your* government on most power imported
from Canada, and, as always, that tariff gets passed onto the
consumer - *you* in other words. Time to write your
congresscritter perhaps ?
Looks like someone hired the mobile phone monthly package marketeers,
ie, bury people in so many layers they simply just buy what they're given
The P-M broke the clock-speed-as-criteria marketing, so they do need
something to change that - perhaps beyond using just the Centrino Brand.
P-M is in the nicest architecture they have.
Ahum, an interesting remark, now, in the Netherlands, with force 12Robert Myers said:That noise can be as pleasant as the wind rustling quietly through the
leaves of a tree outside the window.
Robert Myers wrote:
[SNIP]
I think that the VIA-ITX form factor & C3 chips show the way. My
mum's eyes lit up when she realised I could give her a fully
functional PC for word processing, web browsing and emailing that
was silent and fitted into a tiny little box.
There are a number of people out there who really don't want a
PC dominating a desktop. The monitor & keyboard they will accept
but that bloody great lump of noisey metal is a PITA for them. I
would argue that a P-M would be a better desktop CPU simply
because it has a chance of actually *fitting* on the average
desktop in the first place.
Cheers,
Rupert
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