News for Friday, 10 December 2004

A really serious investigation has shown that men using notebooks on their knee are seriously impacting their lineage.
The study has been conducted with 29 volunteers and has clearly demonstrated that notebooks are significantly increasing the temperature of the testis area. As most of you know this is the place where sperm cells are produced and they required lower temperature that your body temperature (that's why testis are located outside of male body).
That’s it for the theory, regarding the conclusion of this study, this is not surprising and this effect of temperature on fertility of sperm cells has also been demonstrated with men wearing outfits which are maintaining testis to close to the body. Results of this study are also including some weird point which one can explain: temperature of the right testis has increased 0.2°C more than the left one, so that could prove that position of the CPU is affecting localization of the temperature effect. If they were using Apple notebooks, then it must have been iBooks, because they are generating more heat on the right part, whereas PowerBooks have its "hot area" on the left part...

Samsung will start mass producing 512Mbit GDDR3 chips for graphic cards in early 2005. The bandwidth of these chips will allegedly reach 1.6GB/s. Those will end up in consoles and high-end graphic cards, reducing the clutter on the PCB considerably.

In order to convince the few G4 MDD users not to wait for the 7447A based cards, Gigadesigns has published a few details on the performances of the L3 cache deprived 1.7GHz dude.
As we initially suspected, it roughly equals to a G4 7455 at 1.47 GHz with L3 cache.
However, the 7447 sucks 40% less power.
It's anyway kind of obvious that pushing a 1.73GHz upgrade card was more of a marketing coup than a real performance feat.