XBOX ONE SPEC REPORTS & MY THEORY

There are many details flying about but I hope to find out something in my researching that I suspected of the Playstation 4.

However I am now doubting I will find this which is starting me to wondering whether this path will lead me to something else entirely. Not sinister so much I think but could sound it.

Anyway by all accounts it is reported that the XBox ONE will start up more or less instantly and that tyhis can be done by voice by simply saying "Xbox One". This can be performed because the microphone is always on while the machine is in a sleep mode.

Hmm well I do not own one of these things and never have, though this could possibly change this year, so I hope games can all be installed on the hard drive?!

Otherwise asking it to switch itself on from the comfort of your armchair and then dragging yourself off your sorry arse to go over and put the disk in would be somewhat....SILLY! LMAO.

AMD 8 Core (JAGUAR) APU Custom Specifications

AMD 9 Series Graphics (Odd one this as 8 has not come out but it is reported out there that eight will be mobile specific which makes a lot more bloody sense lmao)

8GB RAM

500GB Drive (seen no reports about different versions as yet but have about the drive being NON user serviceable)

USB 3.0

WIFI 'n'

WIFI Direct

Controllers look the same but have 40 (according to Microsoft) improvements but new 'Impulse Triggers'. Hmm. Oh and a built in battery pack.

There is some clue to the typical Microsoft shenanigans that a user cannot change the drive on the machine. This alone could put me right off as you are being forced to PAY for the labour in the event of a failed drive.

Unless they give me a 5 year warranty specific to the drive of course?!

Sound too expectant that one? Well Western Digital Raptors used to state a 12 million hour running without failure. That was 8 bloody years ago so as long as my hard drive was big enough and did not fail I would personally have no issue with this.

Or a warranty for 5 years, lol.

On another and last note I still see this 8 core Jaguar APU being banded about but something just is not right about this. No mentions of the graphics other than this 9 series malarkey. But 4 cores is all they make currently with the integrated graphics.

So if you could make an 8 Core APU tp place inside a games console why would you only have ONE graphics silicon and 8 CPU cores?! Especially when SLI and Crossfire have been around on the PC for NONE YEARS give or take a few months?!

Either there will be two GPUs or these Jaguar cores have a trick up there sleeve.

I mean anyone considering building a PC gaming rig and waiting to see what happens with the two big name consoles before building their AMD Crossfire or nVidia SLI rig would be reading these reports and scratching their heads.

There is one possibility of course and that is that AMD have been a little slow of late on the Graphics Cards front and I expected to see a Radeon HD 8970 by now and added to this the Radeon HD 7990 too an inordinate amount of time to appear...

Maybe, just maybe this 9 series card is so called because it is as big a leap as TWO generations of graphics cards?!

This would highly likely not be available in mobile for awhile and why they are using the '8' moniker for mobile and this '9' moniker for this new silicon.

Hmm do you know what, as I got further into typing that last theory the more I liked the sound of it and thought it the more plausible reason to what is coming up. ITS MY BEST FIT.

LMAO!

WIRED does a good and comprehensive preview of the XBOX ONE

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/05/xbox-one/

UNVEILING OF THE XBOX ONE

Best pictures if the unveiled XBox One I have found here in wired...

Close Up With Xbox One: Every Photo You Could Ever Want | Gadget Lab | Wired.com

Well the slab of plastic does seen to have all but grown up?!

I must admit to being somewhat surprised at the pictures I have seen if the upcoming games console! It is very stylish to the point that it is the first gaming console I have actually thought "I want one!"

The Kinect looks very cool too as well as sounding like it is a big improvement on the first instalment. However I am surprised as I did think that this would be built into the console itself. But then this could have had its own problems I suppose with placement of the console itself I'm the optimum location could be tricky in certain situations.

Still it has taking Microsoft the attempts to produce something oozing cool let us how it is quiet too?!

Let us also hope that there are no shenanigans like the Windows refusing to cone out and play when LINUX is around?!

UPGRADING TO RARING RINGTAIL VIDEOS

Some videos of me attempting to upgrade.

UBUNTU 12.04 LTS UPGRADED TO UBUNTU 13.04

Well everything was working OK for awhile and I enoyed working with it but some odd things have started to happen.

Now I am sure I am being watched closely and that my many blogs on here and the one on Wordpress is being...interfered with in some way is I get impossible numbers.

But lately I have had this version of Ubuntu start having... odd prblems not only with speed but when it comes to CRASHING it is actually beating Windows 2 points to zero, lmao.

Firefx keeps stopping and freezing making posting to these blogs a pain in the arse so I am going to update it to 12.10 and THEN update it to 13.04 of Ubuntu.

I ran the 13.04 version from a USB key and it seemed to run OK and had proper AMD drivers listed in details.

SO hoping that the rumours and things I read about this being faster are true. I also think that little news snippet that came my way, about Canonical going out of business is far from the truth but let us see.Oddly the person that told me of this then said a few days later that he was going to install Ubuntu?!

Anyway right now I am well into the 12.10 version update and hopefully by tonight 13.04?! So I am going from Precise Pangolin, whatever that is, to Raring Ringtail and I will not even know the name of the version that will not be on y laptop for 2 minutes, lmao!!

Woohoo!!

LINUX IN EVER MORE FLAVOURS

I am BEGINNING to try out over flavours of Linux and I did like the Mint one, at least to look at?!

Now..not sure how far I can get into this as I need more, not to mention faster SD Cards and/or USB Memory STUBS, lol, and time but I have ha both benefits cancelled so could be homeless in a few weeks putting an end to all my blogs, the ones with the false numbers presented to me, and my pursuit eo acquiring an income JUST...as I was about to start getting it...THREE MONTHS LATE AT LEAST, LOL.

Still I have managed to put PORTEUS on a memory card with a multi boot program called YUMI.

Alongside Porteus, which I thought was quite night and diminutive size and truly FEELS portable, I also added Linux Mint 11, which went wrong, and changed it to version 14.

I also installed Ubuntu 13.04 and that has been it for now.

I also have, and tryiing and managing to get my head around what they are, KUbuntu, XUbuntu, MythUbuntu, Zorin, PC Linux OS, SMS, SentOS, Fedora and likely a few others besides.

Now Porteus is designed to run from a USB Memory stick long term but I thought I could check out the others.

I did kind of like the GUI for Linux Mint with its Aero like look if I am honest but it oddly REFUSED o connect to my wifi hotspot and has been the ONLY Linux OS to do that?! A shame.

The trouble with other versions of Linux is that I am interested and hoping that something comes from the Linux Steam Client! As far as I know it is only available on Ubuntu and I presume this is ALL the Ubuntus?!

I was also shocked at the Ubuntu 13.04 as a look in the details section showed I had an AMD driver installed which probably means I can get Counter Strike to work as it refuses to under 12.04!

So I may do an upgrade especially as I keep reading that 13.04 is speedier that 12.04, which in all honesty can make Windows 7 look quick at times which for a Linux OS is somewhat shocking, lol.

I seem to have come to the conclusion, finally, that KUbuntu is a KDE Ubuntu and XUbuntu is a simplified X-Window driven Ubuntu?!

I am hoping to check them all out over the next few weeks and I would not mind having a go with Arch too!

I have to admit that outside of Ubuntu the two that caught my eye was Mint and Arch in all honesty. Now I have seen Mint I do thinks it is a better GUI but I want to play around to see if I can get the damn WIFI to connect and if the colours can be altered from the drab grey default colour.

I do like the way you can add widgets on it too. Had the more polished feel and look to it I found in Mint and oddly although I like the Unity Ubuntu look I did feel it needed work on the launcher as it is very limited in personalising it and that folding of icons at the bottom is annoying and fiddly and I had hoped that you could turn that off and just scroll with it.

Apple Shares Down

Was bound to happen and been expecting this for done time now.

A prime example of a combination or getting TOOK BIG, testing on your laurels and worst of all thinking that you were do brilliant that customers would but your products even when several others are way better?!

Now you have the Samsung SIII, SIII Mini, HTC ONE, and best of all the Sony Xperia Z.

I am sure over the next few months you could add several more to that list too?!

Then they will release something a little better than the others I mentioned with the iPhone 6 just as the others are all about to improve their products again?!

Seems they have never manged to get it right ever since their rubber bands iPhone. You know the one that needs a river band to work?! The iPhone 4, it 4S I cannot remember.

Do not like the iPhone 5 either and whoever it was who also ridiculed Apple for not altering their User Interface on the UPS, well I could not agree more!

LMAO.

I did actually like that phone until that fiasco occurred.

SKYRIM TEAM MOVE ON TO BIGGEST PROJECT YET?!

This is exciting news too, and with Thief returning too it is an exciting time for me.

Will be even more exciting if I can build that rig I though I would start building 8 weeks back, still better late than never, as long ias it is not TOO LATE, LOL.

Now I am not sure about how things are done at Bethesda and I am not sure of this means that they are now working on an Elder Scrolls VI or a Fallout 4?!

I get the feeling they have two teams one for each series but I could be wring and I have not had time to reasearch many things, and therefore make money, becase the UK government or SERCO, take your pic, are taking up much of my time with the reasn behind it that I do not work.

What do you call all these blogs then you arse-wipes & piss-ants, lol.

Still in-between wondering whether I will sort this out and if not whether I will be homeless first or starve to death, I do find periods to be excited even if I cannot do the research I need to do, lol.

I did have this theory that there would be a flurry of activity on games that will increase once the word was out that we are seeing the light at the end of the tunnel on the Playstation 4 and XBox 720?! Indeed it may well be that this activity has been ongoing for awhile now and that they could not let that out of the bag as people may guess it was for the next generation consoles?!

I do sometimes wonder whether we should read words like 'are' and replace them with 'have' or 'have long since now', lol.