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World's first? You mean after their first noise canceling earbuds from about 5 years ago? I bought them way back, work great, still using them for trips. Model MDR-NC11.

Review: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,1306657,00.asp

This is actually very useful, and there are reasons why you don't want latency measured at the system software level. As some other posters mentioned, you would video capture the screen and the output from this device at the same time, and then you can count the frames between a button being pressed and the resulting action being seen onscreen. It's not uncommon to have several frames of delay introduced by layers of UI tools or checks running in parallel, so this is the only way to measure true objective latency. Sometimes something you do will access some part of the system, which wouldn't be reported as any delay by the system (as it's frozen essentially) but this would give you accurate results. Then you start investigating why, and try to improve the user experience.

And for the record, the companies that are really serious about user experience have been doing this for a long time, with a number of different methods. We count frames so you don't have a 6 frame delay where it's really important and maybe we can get that down to 3. It's not something that you can easily even feel--it's just "off" for some reason, and that reason can be input lag.

All the jokes about an X2....I thought the mockup image was pretty nice actually.

http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/upload/10476/images/BMWX2scoopCAR1.jpg

What I find ironic here is that the piece of art featured in the article is not his I am 99% sure. As with the original Fable, the key box and promo art was done by a famous Korean artist.

(can I get a +informative?)

Just a word of warning, listen to my story. I got the BC collector's edition for my wife, gave it to her the day it was released (picked it up at midnight) and while she was happy, she also knew the price was really high on ebay so she wanted to wait and see how much we could sell it for.

Well, within the first 24 hours the price dropped to below retail! So if you don't sell it and get money in hand (no dead beat buyers) BEFORE the launch date, you could be screwed. We figured this happened because the need to upgrade and start playing was greater than the desire to get the CE, so if they didn't have one already people just ran out and got the normal edition.

Now the original WoW CE is a different story, and people starting new accounts still really want this. Go check ebay, it's extremely rare and expensive. The BC CE is still not even worth retail.

As big or bigger news is that Kenneth Scott, longtime Art Director of id software (and husband of Corrinne) also accepted a position with Microsoft. A package deal of sorts, details beyond that are sketchy though.

For those wanting apples to apples, does either the original comparison or this new one mention the codecs being used? I would imagine that would affect processor use quite a bit, and might even favor one or the other due to specific instruction set support.

Tech guys help me out here?

Yes, there is a reason, just the one you are guessing is incorrect. If you had read up on the drive more, you would know. It's a 2.5" drive technically, but not so it could ever go in a notebook. Something about the size of the platters they can make it go faster more reliably, to start. Second, it's taller than a normal 2.5" drive, so won't fit in any standard bays. Third, the "heat sink" doesn't do that much, but it looks cool and allows people to mount the drive in their full size PCs without buying an adapter.

"getting even more flexible today"

You mean a few weeks ago? I've been running this firmware for a while now. Even the press release you link to is quite old.