Turtle Tattoo Designs

Wouldn't using the "extra" electricity to power fans to decrease heat lead to less "extra" electricity???? :rolleyes: I hope they really think this through - and I'm sure they will. Of course powering fans isn't the only use for electricity.

Using the electricity to power fans would actually improve the efficiency if the thermoelectric device is placed between the processor and the fan. This would increase the thermal gradient and generate more power than if you were relying solely on heat dissipation to get your gradient.

The only problem with this solution is that high efficiency thermoelectric materials, by design, have low thermal conductivities, so it would not be a good idea to place this between the chip and the heat sink.

I am also skeptical about the claim of 30% efficiency. If we had thermoelectric materials that operated at that efficiency, we could all say goodbye to refrigerator compressors and turbine generators in favor of devices with no moving parts, higher reliability, and no CFCs.

this tech would have worked great in a powerbook G5......

It is a desktop. i have also decided to throw my PS3 in the mix so it will be helping out at night.

oh ok. well you could add a video card to your desktop and fold with it also if you wanted. right now nvidia cards are better. probably a GTX 260 is best bang for your buck

Seriously, can we all take a step back and just breathe for a second? Is the thickness of a phone really that big of a deal? And I thought a re-release of a different color was already inane enough...

Why is this considered NEWS? Let only a juicy RUMOR.

The earliest I could get there is about 2:30, damned lectures! Don't know if that's too early or too late for any potential cool stuff! How big were the queues for Tiger, does anyone know?

The site has been updated!
http://www.apple.com/aperture/

Direct link to the "What's New" page (http://www.apple.com/aperture/newfeatures/index.html)

yay, interested in buying mac pro now. could be a nice computer for me.

i love mine! what will you be using it for?

Of course it is unacceptable, and for this reason it is already illegal. ;)

What about denying somebody a job because of their, say, intelligence? Charisma? Any number of things that are largely predetermined?

everyone experimented with limited devices going back to the 1980's but it took other tech like flash memory and wifi to make them a reality. i played with Palm and PocketPC 10 years ago and while they were cool most tasks were useless because you spent as much time putting in data as the time saved. it wasn't until iOS and the apps store where you could do things like select a few recipes and make a shopping list did a PDA become useful

BS.

I was downloading data to my Phone using my cell phone as a modem in cira 1999... I didn't have to "spent as much time putting in data as the time saved". Like other PDAs, I could sync data from my PC<->device.

I think it would be great to see John Hodgman as "Mac" in the next round of adds - because he's switched!:D

Parenting fail. People should learn how to use the device and check if the device has parental controls.

Truly, parents have become dependent on Uncle Sam to do the parenting work for them....

Note it may be worth deleting http://guides.macrumors.com/index.php?title=Category:Terminal_and_CLI&redirect=no and http://guides.macrumors.com/index.php?title=Category:iPod_and_AppleTV&redirect=no

As http://guides.macrumors.com/List_of_Applications_Not_Compatible_with_Leopard is marked for deletion it isn't getting a new category.

What is pissing me off at this stage is not that the console launches tomorrow or fears over shortages etc, it's the fact that 95% of the launch titles haven't even made it to review which is never a good sign.

I suspect we are going to see a lot of turkeys tomorrow.

I've seen a few reviews, ONM gave everything like 8 or 9 out of 10 (no surprises there) and everyone else gave everything 6 out of 10 at most. Pilotwings is the most disappointing, as apparently it's less than an hour long...

I see that Joystiq and Gamespot and a few other sites (IGN) are starting to put reviews up too, but I'm not that interested in the launch titles! I want to get back to Okamiden and Pok�mon White!

I think there's plenty of consoles to go around, my order is at "dispatching soon" on Amazon, and other people already have theirs!

I third that...Intel integrated 'thing' will never be in a product I buy (If it's the only GPU in mac and nothing else is there like with MacBook Pro where you can switch between graphics 'device'). :)

http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/5756/picture2ra.jpg

Really like the tone and the kind of retro feel. It's simple but it works well.

might have to buy a second one now

Again?

I lol'ed at this:p

Is this not a dream thread!

Fine 410m.

@ Retina display. I seriously doubt IGP 3000 is capable of even running OS X at this resolution let alone anything 3D based like a game.

Trump is very rich but the scale of his wealth is insignificant compared to the expenses of the U.S. government. It's not as if he can reach into his pocket and pull out trillions of dollars and pay off the debt.

Sadly, I think he does have a small chance of getting elected. He is a celebrity and Americans assign virtue and competence to celebrity for some sick reason.

I agree with the other posters that he is purely a self promoter.

I prefer the Mac App Store easier for update notifications and the installation all done for you sit back and watch click of a button

I found this interesting, apparently people can't buy an iphone online from AT&T delivered to NY. However, you can still get it at stores.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/12/28/iphone.sales.nyc/index.html

What do you guys think? Fraud? Just a glitch? Or desperate measure by AT&T to stop the congestion?

Yeah! I knew paying for .mac would pay off in the end!! I like it. Cool stuff.

noone seems to be happy Apple is bringing in employees from even microsoft. But dont ya think this is kinda a real sign of the dominance Apple is starting to have.

Also maybe Apple has managed to pick out the small piece of talent microsoft had? haha the new strategy will be steal all the good employees, much cheaper than buying them out.