If you had been paying any attention to the barrage of people telling you that electric cars aren't good for the environment, you'd have heard that the production of the batteries is bad for the environment. You seem to have completely ignored that point from your comment. Still, electric cars are definitely a step in the right direction, we can't be stuck on petrol forever.

This magical modification of a bike somehow eliminates perspiration?

And for many people, public/mass transit works just fine. Are you suggesting that since it can't work for everyone, we shouldn't bother with aiming to utilise it better for a net efficiency increase?

Or declare war and steal it.

In this case, they're an AC and you're not so you get to pull rank ;)

The main memory aspect is taken up by the open source driver code. The firmware blob goes straight to the hardware.

The blobs we're talking about here are NOT the AMD proprietary drivers, we're talking about the firmware blobs that the community drivers have to send to the cards at initialization.

I'm assuming they meant using an AMD based PC because the drivers already in the PS4 OS might be compatible (which is not particularly likely). Alternatively if you want NVIDIA, they already have an official driver for FreeBSD that you could try hacking into Orbis. Neither case requires a custom Linux-FreeBSD shim.

My guess is they're wondering how easy it would be to pirate PS4 games on PC hardware.

Why? You could just run FreeBSD on that PC instead of Linux.

It wouldn't be the first time a PR guy has lied.

I'm sure knowing that is going to make the millions of ruralites feel much better about the situation knowing they're taking one for the team.

Lulea is pretty much at sea level.

You seem to have completely missed my point. I said Haswell doesn't change anything with regards to thermal challenges in building such SFF systems, the point of comparison is to Ivy Bridge. And it's certainly not even remotely close to being 4 times faster than Nehalem.

Haswell is not 4 times faster than Ivy Bridge. Also, most modern games struggle to get over 60fps - even on an older game like Crysis: Warhead, the Titan behemoth card can't break 60fps at 1080p max settings. If you're running a low end game at 240fps, then you're better off with an AMD Fusion chip to save on power consumption over an NVIDIA 670.

And that's ignoring that modern multithreaded game engines tend to decouple the render loop and gameplay loop so vsync doesn't necessarily cause the CPU to idle.

But for the sake of argument, let's assume I'm completely wrong on all points above. Let's do some rough math. 25% of the time running at load TDP and 75% at idle... My i5-3570k Ivy Bridge tends to idle around 20W (max TDP 77W), so that's averaging 0.25*77 + 0.75*20 for an average of 34.25W. Haswell has a higher TDP at load, i5-4670k rated around 88W. AnandTech have done power consumption benchmarks which indicates that the Haswell platform as a whole idles 10W lower overall, which includes power savings in the chipset and other motherboard aspects but let's call that a 10W CPU idle. Average power consumption would be 0.25*88 + 0.75*10 for an average of 29.5W. A savings of 5W due to Haswell in your scenario pales in comparison to the 170W NVIDIA 670 sitting in the corner, so no, even then Haswell doesn't change the thermal envelope appreciably such that these SFF platforms suddenly become viable. Besides, they still need to be built to cool the system under full load conditions anyway and that certainly hasn't changed.