pFiled under: a href="http://www.tuaw.com/category/analysisopinion/" rel="tag"Analysis / Opinion/a, a href="http://www.tuaw.com/category/software/" rel="tag"Software/a, a href="http://www.tuaw.com/category/iphone/" rel="tag"iPhone/a, a href="http://www.tuaw.com/category/app-store/" rel="tag"App Store/a, a href="http://www.tuaw.com/category/ipod-touch/" rel="tag"iPod touch/a/pimg vspace="8" hspace="8" align="right" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tuaw.com/media/2008/10/atbat09234092384092384.jpg" alt="" /When the a href="http://www.apple.com/iphone/features/appstore.html"App Store/a opened, I went nuts and downloaded a slew of apps. Two weeks later, I a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2008/07/21/2-weeks-later-iphone-apps-i-actually-use/"listed/a the 8 I decided to keep, including Major League Baseball's (MLB) At Bat [a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?mt=8amp;id=281969989"App Store link/a]. This week, At Bat has dropped in price from $4.99US to $2.99US.br /br /It's on sale because it will "expire" when the current season ends (Go, Sox!), meaning you'll have to purchase a new version for 2009. Still, if you're a fan and into the post-season, I encourage you to buy it. It's my hands-down favorite iPhone application. pWhile using At Bat, I realized how an application's features and benefits affect its longevity. Specifically, the features attract your attention, while the benefits grab you for good./p pHere's an example. At Bat provides nearly real-time statistics for ongoing games, including scoring, current batter and pitcher, stats, the count at the plate ... even video clips from a game that's emin progress/em./p pYou can identify your favorite team to keep their score highlighted, and enjoy an integrated version of a href="http://www.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/"MLB Gameday/a, which provides pitch-by-pitch information and so much more. All of this is presented in an attractive, readable UI./p pThose are the features./p pThe benefit is a feeling of connectedness, even participation, and emthat's/em why At Bat is a keeper. As a die-hard baseball fan, I want to watch every game. I know the stats, the players, the standings; who's playing well, who's on injured reserve and who's in a slump. It's tremendously fun to watch a baseball game on a summer evening and get lost in the drama of it all./p pHowever, life interferes (can you say "toddlers"?) and I sometimes miss a game. Yet, those live stats and video clips alleviate the emfeeling/em of missing the game, and that's worth a lot more than $2.99 to me. br //p pThe same can be said of other applications. Twitterrific [a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=284540316amp;mt=8"App Store link/a] puts 1,000 friends in your pocket (leave your adolescent joke in the comments, please). At any time, I can share a funny picture, observation or idea with my buddies, and get a reply just as easily. Those are the features. The benefit is the comfort of friendship./p pThe benefit of FileMagnet [a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=284797161amp;mt=8"App Store link/a] is peace of mind. Yes, I've got that PDF for the meeting. Yes, I've got the photo I have to show my boss. Phew./p pOthers that I've eliminated went in the other direction - all feature. Cro-Mag Rally's [a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=281747159amp;mt=8"App Store link/a] accelerometer-based steering got boring after 10 minutes./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?mt=8amp;id=281969989Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2008/10/07/the-fantastic-at-bat-is-on-sale/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.tuaw.com/forward/1335455/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2008/10/07/the-fantastic-at-bat-is-on-sale/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/abr /br /pmap name="google_ad_map_16-1335455"area shape="rect" href="http://imageads.googleadservices.com/pagead/imgclick/16-1335455?pos=0" coords="1,2,367,28" /area shape="rect" href="http://services.google.com/feedback/abg" coords="384,10,453,23" //mapimg usemap="#google_ad_map_16-1335455" border="0" src="http://imageads.googleadservices.com/pagead/ads?format=468x30_aff_imgamp;client=ca-pub-3546992251556849amp;channel=21amp;output=pngamp;cuid=16-1335455amp;url=http://www.tuaw.com/2008/10/07/the-fantastic-at-bat-is-on-sale/" //p pa href="http://feeds.tuaw.com/~a/weblogsinc/tuaw?a=izYlrB"img src="http://feeds.tuaw.com/~a/weblogsinc/tuaw?i=izYlrB" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.tuaw.com/~f/weblogsinc/tuaw?a=IGDtm"img src="http://feeds.tuaw.com/~f/weblogsinc/tuaw?i=IGDtm" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.tuaw.com/~f/weblogsinc/tuaw?a=R3PHm"img src="http://feeds.tuaw.com/~f/weblogsinc/tuaw?i=R3PHm" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.tuaw.com/~r/weblogsinc/tuaw/~4/414058695" height="1" width="1"/

pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/10/humiliationtop.jpg" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="2" width="554" height="300" style="display:block;float:none;" /Last week, under orders from Boss Chen, I invited you nice people to a href="http://gizmodo.com/5058221/use-our-150+inch-tv-photos-to-make-me-look-like-a-real-cool-dude"use our 150-inch TV pictures as Photoshop fodder/a, specifically the photos with me in them. As expected, you didn't disappoint. I am happy to report that no one inserted me into any fetish porn, so I thank you for that. I can't say I escaped with my dignity completely intact, but I guess that might have been too much to ask for. Hit the jump for your top three winners (losers?) and your Gallery of Champions./p pbFirst Place/b #8212; OK, even I can admit this is pretty goodbr img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/10/adam_casual.jpg" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="2" width="476" height="480" style="display:block;float:none;" /bSecond Place/b #8212; I don't know ia href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/working-hard/testing-the-happyvappy-vaporizer-297552.php"where/a/i I got this reputationbr img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/10/waitwhatweeds.jpg" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="2" width="800" height="502" style="display:block;float:none;" /bThird Place/b #8212; I wishbr img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/10/OMG_Ponies_5.jpg" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="2" width="400" height="412" style="display:block;float:none;" /script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" galleryPost('humiliatedadam', 31, 'Dammit This Will Be Googlable Forever'); /script/p br style="clear: both;"/ img alt="" style="border: 0; height:1px; width:1px;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?i=d93ea6bd0d66d2220fc9b88896de241e" height="1" width="1"/ img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=d93ea6bd0d66d2220fc9b88896de241e" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/ pa href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~a/gizmodo/full?a=LnGEwD"img src="http://feeds.gawker.com/~a/gizmodo/full?i=LnGEwD" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=1TtQM"img src="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=1TtQM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=wDNDM"img src="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=wDNDM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=jjaKm"img src="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=jjaKm" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=7lNdm"img src="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=7lNdm" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~4/413985081" height="1" width="1"/

Last week, under orders from Boss Chen, I invited you nice people to use our 150-inch TV pictures as Photoshop fodder, specifically the photos with me in them. As expected, you didn't disappoint. I...

Youch. Sounds like early DDR3 adopters who went the performance route may have a tough pill to swallow.

WE GOT WORD that Intel is adivising mobo-makers and memory vendors alike about their new X58+Core i7 combo and to abide to a strict 1.65V limit on memory voltages, beyond which there is the risk of burning out the CPU.

The info first tipped up on the XFastest forums where the admin posted several photos of an Asus P6T Deluxe (retail-packed) mobo including one of a big sticker over the DIMM slots motherboard warning that anything over 1.65V will fry the CPU.

The DDR3 JEDEC specification is well within limits of this, however, starting off at 1.5V, but as Intel’s CPUs have made for such great overclockers, memory vendors have ever so happily catered to the enthusiast crowd with faster, higher-powered memory kit. You’ve got plenty of examples, OCZ Reaper PC3-14400 operates at 1.9V, Mushkin’s XP Series uses 1.9-1.95V, Corsair’s Dominator high-end takes you all the way up to 2.1V…

Asus' staff has been busy in meetings so we rang up several memory vendors here in €uroland, and considering it’s a public holiday in Germany, they were more than helpful.

Mushkin’s VP Steffen Eisenstein said that they are re-designing specifically for the X58/Core i7 combo, and that their kit should be out some time next month… in Tri-Channel packs. Other memory vendors across the globe are claiming their kits are still undergoing certification with motherboard vendors so they still don’t know whether they qualify or not.

We’re still waiting for Intel to explain why the memory voltage will burn the CPU, but pressing F9 in Outlook and constantly checking our phones isn’t making things any faster.

It looks like the DDR3 IC and memory vendors will have to go back to the drawing board if they are to create enthusiast-grade performance levels for Nehalem. If you want to get a Core i7 as soon as it hits the market, make sure you have the memory kit to go with it. You’ll have to underclock your kit to more reasonable (power compliant) settings in the meantime. µ

Update: Asus called us back and confirmed the limitation on the RAM voltages. They are currently running a 1.7V kit in their UK office, but beyond that, you're on your own.
Source: The Inquirer

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TalentTrove

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TalentTrove is a global online talent community created to help individuals share their talents with the world.

CEO’s Pitch

TalentTrove not only provides aspiring artists and performers with the opportunity to be discovered, but also offers a virtual community for like-minded individuals to discuss their passions, share mutual opportunities, seek advice, and stay connected.

Users can create, upload, and broadcast their skills and talents in the form of audio and video files, images, or text. The site even provides artists and musicians from around the world with the opportunity to collaborate with one another.

The motivation to showcase talent specifically on TalentTrove is fueled by our promise— be seen, be appreciated, be recognized and be discovered.

Mashable’s Take

If you didn’t make it to “American Idol” or “America’s Got Talent” or any number of other well-televised auditions and competitions, and yet you’d still like to prove your showman’s mettle, TalentTrove seems like an interesting place to strut your stuff.

It wouldn’t have grabbed our attention if it were solely a place to post visual renditions of pop standards or juggling feats or whathaveyou. Much of the content displayed is quite amateurish, so visitors will need to spend some time traveling around the place to get a solid grasp of what it is that makes TalentTrove tick. It’s YouTube, but with an exclusively creative spin. Which some aren’t likely to enjoy very much. On the other hand, some may well benefit from the casual environs.

What is especially inviting about the website is its breadth of categories. Acting, comedy, music, dance, food, craft making, and even things featuring animals and writing are all welcome. Again, you may not be entirely thrilled with what’s currently shown, either at the main archive or at TalentTrove.TV and radio.talenttrove. But the service itself offers users many options with which to portray themselves and their work. Which is really half the battle, development-wise.

Now, you may have to forgive TalentTrove’s visual presentation. It’s not the prettiest platform on the Web. Not even close. And it can behave somewhat sluggishly. There’s some waiting to go along with a basic browse around the place. But it feels relatively thorough insofar as features are concerned. Again, it can take a few moments to learn what everything is and where it is located. But if you’re intent on producing an upload or two, exploration is simply part of the process.

It’s hard to say one way or another whether TalentTrove is qualitatively worthwhile. For truly promising aspirants in fields demanding of excellence, I would peg TalentTrove as a venue ideal only for tossing up bits and pieces in order to see what sticks. But as TalentTrove’s creator states above, it’s a community. And that’s an important point to keep in mind here. It’s nothing to take too seriously. Just somewhere to share material and get some easy feedback. For that alone, TalentTrove is worth the registration.

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Yat-chan and Fuku-chan are waiters at the Kaoru Otsuka sake house north of Tokyo. The two are monkeys. They bring hot towels and also serve drinks. From Reuters, where you can also see video: "Yat-chan first learned by just watching me working in the restaurant. It all started when one day I gave him a hot towel out of curiosity and he brought the towel to the customer," the 63-year-old owner of the tavern, Kaoru Otsuka, told Reuters... "We called out for more beer just then and it brought us some beer! It's amazing how it seems to understand human words," said 71-year-old retiree Miho Takikawa, who said she came to the tavern specifically to meet the monkeys. Monkey waiters...br style="clear: both;"/ img alt="" style="border: 0; height:1px; width:1px;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?i=8482270acb2e1effae5b6ccdf9698d4f" height="1" width="1"/ img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=8482270acb2e1effae5b6ccdf9698d4f" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

pFiled under: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/bmw/" rel="tag"BMW/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/mercedes-benz/" rel="tag"Mercedes-Benz/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/rumormill/" rel="tag"Rumormill/a/ppa href="http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/News/Search-Results/Industry-News/BMW-Mercedes-alliance-the-latest-news/?content-block=1"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" alt="" src="http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2007/06/bmw-benz.jpg" //a/p We have a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2007/06/26/mercedes-doesnt-want-to-play-nice-with-bmw/"heard/a almost a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2007/10/01/mercedes-considers-using-next-mini-platform-for-new-compacts/"constant/a rumors of a a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2007/06/11/bmw-and-mercedes-sitting-in-a-tree-k-i-s-s-i-n-g/"tie-up/a between a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2007/12/29/mercedes-bmw-collaboration-gaining-steam/"Mercedes-Benz and BMW/a for the last few years. As market conditions change and German automaker Porsche (a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/09/16/porsche-raises-stake-in-vw-again-makes-offer-for-audi/"via Audi via Volkswagen/a) pushes forward with its plans for a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2007/03/01/audi-bullish-on-itself-raises-sales-goal-for-2015-after-record/"world domination/a, the two high-end marques have been speaking about the possibility of jointly developing certain pieces of their vehicles. The latest reports specifically mention engines as a project the two Teutonic giants have considered partnering up on. Mercedes' a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/07/10/shnell-mercedes-benz-sl65-amg-black-series-previewed/"latest direct injection twin turbo V12/a is an intriguing prospect for BMW and its Roll Royce brand. Also under discussions are smaller, lower-profit cars that use four-cylinder engines, which BMW has plenty of and a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2007/10/19/mercedes-eyeing-motors-from-mini/"Mercedes-Benz does not/a. The two competitors could swap technology, cutting research and development costs drastically in the process. Or, maybe not. It seems that Daimler is a bit wary of siding with its longtime enemy from across the country. Whatever happens, emCar Magazine Online/em is reporting that BMW is looking to make a deal sometime before the end of the year.br /br /[Source: a href="http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/News/Search-Results/Industry-News/BMW-Mercedes-alliance-the-latest-news/?content-block=1"Car Magazine Online/a]h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/News/Search-Results/Industry-News/BMW-Mercedes-alliance-the-latest-news/?content-block=1Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/10/07/bmw-and-mercedes-benz-cant-we-all-just-get-along/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/1334712/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/10/07/bmw-and-mercedes-benz-cant-we-all-just-get-along/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feeds.autoblog.com/~a/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=jYVd31"img src="http://feeds.autoblog.com/~a/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=jYVd31" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.autoblog.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=i3etm"img src="http://feeds.autoblog.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=i3etm" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.autoblog.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=JS9Ym"img src="http://feeds.autoblog.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=JS9Ym" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.autoblog.com/~r/weblogsinc/autoblog/~4/413894192" height="1" width="1"/

pimg class="float_right" src="/~~/f?id=48209ff4796c7a2300f553f5ctxt=wwwr1.2.0.0maxX=400maxY=286" border="0" alt="Larry Page White Coat.jpg" title="Larry Page White Coat.jpg" width="400" height="286" /Google's stock is now down more than 50% from its high, at a level that most Google fans (and analysts) would have considered unthinkable a year ago. In fact, the stock has now dropped to a level it hasn't seen consistently in more than three years. And it's still not cheap (although it's certainly getting there)./p pGoogle's stock collapse will likely have several impacts on the company. All will likely become more pronounced the longer the stock stays at these levels (or, god forbid, falls further):/p pstrongAngry shareholders will increasingly pressure management to be more forthcoming about how they are spending Google's astronomical CAPEX and RD budgets. /strong Even in the salad days, Wall Street was annoyed about how little Google disclosed about what it was spending so much money on. Now that the bloom has fallen off the rose, this impatience will turn to anger. At that point, management will have a choice to make: Continue to say Google is just "a href="http://investor.google.com/ipo_letter.html"not a conventional company/a" or cave and start providing better disclosure./p pstrongAngry shareholders will increasingly campaign for more accountability on those CAPEX and RD investments./strong Specifically, Google's culture of 20% time, pet projects, and endless revenue-less beta releases will become more and more annoying. Management will then have to decide whether they want to respond to this call for more discipline or, again, maintain that Google is "different." If they choose the latter route, many shareholders will likely throw in the towel./p pstrongGoogle may have to fire people and/or otherwise tighten the belt. /strongYes, it sounds inconceivable now, but Google's margins have been dropping steadily for more than a year. With the global economy headed into recession, it is highly likely that Google's revenue growth will be hit. This probably won't put the company in actually difficulty, but it will certainly prompt shareholders to call for change./p pstrongA likely shift toward more cash compensation as a percentage of total compensation, which will put more pressure on margins./strong The gulf between the "haves" and "have nots" in Google's 16,000+ ranks will now have become even more stark than ever, with the folks hired more than three years ago rolling in wealth and everyone else feeling like they missed the boat. This will exacerbate morale issues. If the stock doesn't recover, it will also likely force the company to consider raising its cash compensation as a percentage of total comp, to placate those who missed the pre-IPO bonanza./p pstrongThe Google talent exodus will continue./strong The fun part, it seems, is over. So why not let someone else worry about the hard and painful part while you try something new?/p pPerhaps most importantly,strong the perception that Google can do no wrong will change rapidly./strong As it does, the pent-up anger about Google complete domination of the global advertising market over the past few years will find a more receptive audience, and the company's critics will be emboldened./p pWill all this kill Google? Of course not. But it will likely force some change. And as far as the company's outside investors are concerned, that's probably a good thing./p pstrongSee Also:/strongbr /a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/9/google-breaks-400-and-still-not-cheap"Google Breaks $400...And Still Not Cheap/abr /a href="../../2008/3/_google_to__350_"Google Below $350? 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Quote: Jasper Hunting 101: Waiting for the 65nm Xbox 360

Date: October 6th, 2008
Topic: Gadgets
Manufacturer: Microsoft
Author: Michael Andrawes

I've been pestering Anand for the past coupled of months with every shred of evidence or rumor that relates to the launch of Microsoft's updated Xbox 360 motherboard codenamed "Jasper." Finally, he got sick of hearing about my obsession, so he asked me to write it up for AnandTech. I think the real reason is just to reduce the clutter in his IM logs ;) So here I am...

So, what's the big deal with Jasper? Well, it finally brings a 65nm GPU to the console, which should run much cooler than the current 90nm GPU that's been there since launch. Why does that matter? The 360 is now infamous for the "Red Ring of Death" (aka RRoD) failure and many hypothesize that this is related to overheating issues. The Falcon motherboard introduced a 65nm CPU shrink to help combat heat issues, but unfortunately, the GPU remained at 90nm (possibly with a slight redesigned or possibly even a half-node 80nm shrink). Overall the Falcon-based 360s run cooler and quieter than earlier models and seem to be more reliable so far. The RRoD has not been completely eliminated, however, and many of us have been waiting for the 65nm GPU update before actually buying a 360 - myself included. The exact reasons for the Xbox 360 reliability issues is not the purpose of this article, but I hope that Jasper will fix it. That said, we won't know what impact Jasper will have on reliability until they've been out for about a year or so.

I had a variety of reasons for waiting until approximately this point in time to buy a 360, but with all speculation pointing towards Jasper being out sometime around now, I couldn't help but wait a bit longer for the latest and greatest. At the same time, I have a fiance breathing down my neck about getting Rock Band, so I've been doing my best to track down a Jasper-based 360 before she kills me. Unfortunately, that's easier said than done.

You see, the Jasper has not been documented in the wild just yet, so we're all working on speculation and rumor at this point. Engadget jumped the gun the other day based on some bad information from another site. The story was then picked up by a number of media outlets despite the retraction from Engadget. The result is mass confusion about the true status of Jasper and my primary goal here is to set that straight. My secondary goal is to help others identify Jasper as well.

Ok that's not true at all - my real goal here is to help identify Jasper in the wild so I can get one ;) If I help you guys find one too, that's ok :)

What has been known for a while:

1. TSMC has reportedly been producing 65nm GPUs for Microsoft since early this year. Note, this is just the GPU chips themselves.
2. A number of rumors pointed towards a late August or early September build date for Jasper motherboards.
3. Delays can happen.

Thanks to a thread over on 8bitjoystick, a number of us have been trying to track down any additional information that might help us ID these consoles, preferably without actually opening them and looking at the GPU directly. Here's what we've found (we being myself, 8bitjoystick, Knoxximus, Jediman, and others in that thread).

1. Microsoft has registered a 150W PSU with a model number virtually identical to some of the 175W PSUs currently included with Falcon-based 360s. Both 110V and 220V models are listed.
2. The current output on that PSUs 12V rail is rated at 12.1A.
3. All of this is right in line with estimated power reduction from a die-shrunk GPU.
4. The 12V current demands of the console are clearly listed on the console itself, right next to the serial number. Falcon was 14.2A; earlier models (Zephyr and Xenon) were 16.5A.

I propose that the 12.1A power rating listed on the back of the console will be the most reliable way to ID a Jasper without opening it up. It still requires opening the factory packaging, but once you do, you should know what you've got inside. The first units may still come with 175W PSUs, just like many of the first Falcons came with the original 203W PSU. Unfortunately, Microsoft has stopped listing the PSU power output on the outter packaging, so we can't use that as an indicator of what's inside. At least one person has stated that their early Falcon still had a rating of 16.5A, but I've been unable to verify this.

Some other potentially useful power information: Anand has already documented the Falcon to use ~100W at the dashboard and ~120W while playing Halo - a full 50W less than Zephyr. I'd expect Jasper to also be up to 50W less than that, although that's just an educated guess for obvious reasons. This is power draw at the AC outlet with a Kill-a-watt or similar meter. The numbers may not work out perfectly on an early Jasper if it's using a 175W PSU, but it should still be less than the Falcon numbers.

So far, nobody has found a Jasper, so the exact weeks of manufacture and therefore lot numbers are still unknown. The original rumors would point towards weeks 34-38 being the first Jaspers, which corresponds to a lot # of 0834 to 0838. This information of course has not been verified since none have actually been spotted in the wild. Then there's the issue of which manufacturing team will make them first. Again, we don't know since nobody has one, but team FDOU had the first Falcons last year. What I can tell you is that 0833 from FDOU is the newest I can find documented anywhere and it's still a Falcon by all accounts.

The last trick that may or may not be beneficial is trying to look through the vents for changes in the heatsink design or inductor layout. These tricks were well documented for identifying Falcons, but nobody knows for sure exactly what Jasper will actually look like. More than likely, we'll see a revised GPU heatsink that's cheaper to produce since the cooling requirements will be reduced. That would likely mean no copper heatpipe, something that is currently visible through the vents.

Other things that need to be clarified:

1. I mentioned it above, but it's worth reiterating: nobody has actually laid hands on a Jasper outside of Microsoft and their manufacturers.

2. Microsoft is not going to officially talk about Jasper. There will be no press release. They will not respond to questions about it. Not from us, and certainly not from any random person calling them up. If they announced anything, it would make it quite hard to sell the old stock and it would admit that their old units were less reliable. Besides, this running change would have happened even if there were no effect on reliability because it's a cost cutting measure - the very same one that enabled the recent price drops. Their repair centers doesn't know anything either.

3. Retailers don't care. Being an unofficial, running change in the manufacturing means that nothing official will go to the retailers either. In other words, they have no idea what models they have, and nor do they care. A Jasper-based 360 will look just like a Falcon or even Zephyr-based 360 to them. They make the same amount of profit on each unit and they have zero incentive to try to sell all the old stock first. Forget all the conspiracy theories regarding the retailers or their employees.

4. Employees don't care. Getting employees to check this out for you is difficult. Most of them don't get it and wouldn't care even if they did. A refusal to check is more an indication of lack of motivation to do something so seemingly strange rather than them trying to prevent you from getting the latest and greatest.

5. The whole Jasper thing is a hardware revision for cost savings and is completely unrelated to any software updates, such as the upcoming dashboard experience.

6. We have no way of knowing if Microsoft has a plan to specifically implement Jasper in certain models first (ie Elites before Arcades), but to date, the faster selling Arcades seem to be the most recently produced models at my local stores. This may vary by locale however. I'd expect this to be a running change that will not be targeted at a particular model though.

7. I've been wrong once or twice before, so take this all with a grain of salt ;)

Thanks again to all the guys/gals in the 8bitjoystick/Seattle PI thread. They deserve as much credit as I do as it was our work together that helped uncover most of this. I'm just trying to make this more public and clear up some of the confusion that's out there.

That's all I have for now. I'll post more as I find it. Link: http://anandtech.com/gadgets/showdoc.aspx?i=3424

And also of note is the SeattlePi blog:

http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/d...ves/147899.asp

Quote: The Xbox 360 motherboard "Xenon" had a 90nm CPU and 90nm GPU and no HDMI.
The Xbox 360 motherboard "Zephyr" had a 90nm CPU and 90nm GPU and HDMI.
The Xbox 360 motherboard "Falcon" had a 65nm CPU and 90nm GPU and HDMI.
The Xbox 360 motherboard "Opus" had a 65nm CPU and 90nm GPU, no HDMI and only included in repaired "Xenon" system cases from Xbox repair centers.
The Xbox 360 motherboard "Jasper" will have a 65nm CPU and new 65nm GPU and HDMI.

They are currently working on the Xbox 360 motherboard "Valhalla" and that will have a combo 65nm CPU/GPU on a single super chip and HDMI. Valhalla is not going to be out for a long time, at least a year or more. Finally the article by Dean Takahashi who wrote "Opening the XBox" on XBox1 and is writting a book on XBox 360 as well as reporting/recording the RRoD problems many gamers experienced up to and after Microsoft took action with the extended warranty and is still a very important article because many of those gamers who got RRoD ended up buying a newer XBox 360 consoles revision hoping to avoid the RRoD problem:

http://venturebeat.com/2008/09/05/xb...-console-woes/

This should be helpfull information for people curious about the new Jasper XBox 360 revision that Microsoft is making available, whether it will fix the Red Ring of Death failiures is still unknown but with a 65nm CPU & GPU the obvious benefits are cooler running chips that consumer less electricity current and probably less fear of the system crapping out during heavy gaming sessions or even movie viewing sessions as one of my friends is getting a 2 red light error on his XBox 360 premium and another experiences framerate slowdown during extended Halo 3 gameplay on his Falcon X360 Elite.

It would be extremely interesting if someone could compare all the XBox 360 revisions with reguards to power consumption and extended gameplay reliability such as 12 continous hours of heavy nonstop online play (some are guilty of doing this and I myself used to do this back in XBox 1 Halo1 Lan parties)

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