• We’re currently investigating an issue related to the forum theme and styling that is impacting page layout and visual formatting. The problem has been identified, and we are actively working on a resolution. There is no impact to user data or functionality, this is strictly a front-end display issue. We’ll post an update once the fix has been deployed. Thanks for your patience while we get this sorted.

Massive typo in Anandtech frontpage article!!

F

FishTankX

Platinum Member
Toshiba noteboox review on front page!

Construction-Under the hood

"That means that the notebook's CPU is built on a 0.18 micron architecture and has 256MB of integrated L2 cache and is thus different than the recently released Pentium 4-M chip. "

Uh huh... *sure* the processor has 256MB of cache....

Conclusion
"The Satellite 1905-S277 is not without flaws other than the size, however. We had two major complaints when it came to the system: the hard drive and the video system. As a desktop replacement system, we would have expected to see a fast notebook hard drive at the heat of the Satellite 1905-S277. "

Huh? At the heat of what?

 
it's probably more effective to email the editor/author of the review.. if you haven't already done so. 🙂
 
To Scouzer-Not quite. Cache sizes have increased (On the desktop market) from 256K/128/32 (depending on processors) L2 in 1996 to some 512K today... Uh.. is that, like, 4X? If that's true, then future processors in 5 years should at most have 8 megs of cache. Tops!

256? NO FRIKKIN WAY ON THIS PLANET! (Unless you have server CPU's. HP currently has 1 CPU with 32MB L2)
 


<< If that's true, then future processors in 5 years should at most have 8 megs of cache. Tops! >>



well, maybe that would be true if improvements were linear. but since we all know that technology improves exponentially, who knows what the future holds. I remember seeing on Intel's website (not a direct quote, but something similar)

<< It took us 25 years to get to 1.0 ghz...It only took 12 months to get to 2.0ghz >>

 
Actually technology improves at a linear rate.

Thus cache sizes should improve at a linear rate. You can quote me on this 5 years down the road. Then we'll see if any cache sizes above 12MB come down to the 500$ range.
 


<< Actually technology improves at a linear rate. >>



take a look at this intel TimeLine

This tells you what year processors were released by intel and at what speeds.

1982 - 286/12mhz

1985 - 386/25mhz (doubled in 3 years... which already proves your theory wrong because we doubled 1.0ghz in 12 months)

1989 - 486/50mhz (doubled in 4 years)

1993 - Pentium 75/mhz (4 years )

you can look it up yourself... if advances were linear, then anyone could easily say that in 10 years we would have exactly this type of processor with exactly this size hard drive, with exactly this much ram, with exactly.... NOT POSSIBLE


 
Allright, within the past 5 years, technology has improved linearly. And I believe that trend will not change in the next 5 years.
 
Did anyone notice the AT Newsletter ad in yesterday's "Hot Deals" forum? They've since changed it (since I emailed them and told them). It said:

"Its the AnandTech Newsletter".
image

Hmm, some people are apostrophe happy, others fail to use them completely.

I've known for years the world is full of morons. It seems that the rest of the world is finally catching up with the realization. Illegitimus non carborundum (don't let the bastards grind you down) has been my mantra for years.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

Back
Top