[ydl-gen] Google Earth on YDL 5.0

[Hal Martin]

AFAIK from what I've heard from guys working at Freescale, the PPC chip,
it is *MUCH* more efficient than anything that Intel or AMD is currently
offering. How they can justify that when I can almost fry an egg on the
bottom of my PowerBook, I don't know.

Hal


Eric Dunbar wrote:
> On 26/03/07, Brian Wood <beww at bresnan.net> wrote:
>   
>> On Mar 26, 2007, at 8:10 PM, Jonathan Bartlett wrote:
>>
>>     
>>>  Also, just for fun, has anyone tried the PS3 folding at home client?  Dang
>>> fast.  If anyone wants to join, my team number is 59478.
>>>       
>> CNN had a story on that, fast as heck but it also draws considerable power,
>> on the order of 200 watts. Running that 24/7, especially someplace like
>> California or NYC, would start to add up fast.
>>
>> I've also read that some retail stores that are running PS3s all day are
>> starting to have thermal problems, but these are units in closed cabinets so
>> that's not too surprising.
>>     
>
> Wasn't that one of the reasons Apple cited for going with Intel chips?
> PPC chips simply were "too hot to handle" <groan> in terms of their
> power consumption (and, indirectly, heat production).
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