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6.8GHz 1TB RAM and 2TB HDD Laptop?
Stuk writes "Research & development company AtomChip have announced a new 6.8GHz 1TB RAM and 2TB HDD laptop, which is "coming soon". Apparently it does not use a hard disc, instead it is based on "solid state AtomChip® optoelectronics". A new "non-volatile Quantum-Optical" type of RAM is used. Other features include voice commands, "Num Lock mode, Caps Lock mode, Scroll Lock mode". They're spoiling us." If Nintendogs has taught me anything, it's that voice recognition is awesome and should be used for everything. *cough*. And also to be skeptical of this many buzzwords.
April is not for ages yet.
Maybe Duke Nukem Forever will run on it.
which is "coming soon".
:)
Ideal to play Duke Nukem Forever on
The first time I heard about holographic memory replacing conventional methods (RAM/ROM/HDD), I was a kid just beginning work at NCR...let's see what the way-back machine says: 1991.
I've been waiting for 14 years for the technology to become real, and like nuclear fusion, I suspect I'll be waiting forever...
"... but you can love completely without complete understanding." - Norman Maclean, "A River Runs Through It"
Now if somebody would only invent the readable web page...
A terabyte of RAM? I'll believe it when I see it.
Real_men_don't_need_spacebars.
If you're not convinced, just check out the video http://www.compu-technics.com/images/solar memory.WMV.
Only an idiot would think that was fake. ARE YOU AN IDIOT??!?
Here's a real first post from a long-time lurker : Imagine a beowulf cluster of... Oh, nevermind.
Can I get slashdotted too if I make a fancy website with bullshit claims? Why even post this shit it's a waste of everybody's bandwidth.
No, it's not an overclocked Pentium. From the article:
Processor: 6.8GHZ CPU (AtomChip® Quantum® II processor or 4 x Intel® Pentium® M processors 1.7CHz)
And what does "soon" mean? I smell bullshit..
Can windows xp even recognize 1TB ram?
And it only requires 1.2 Jiggawatts of electricity for the flux capacitor!
First the electric universe, now this. Please, if any of this were true, this would be a huge story, but it's not. So the huge story is, the editors of slashdot have gone off the deep end and are now just printing anything no matter how ridiculous.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
With all those powerhouse specs and without decent video, how am I supposed to play WoW on that?
- Just my $0.02, take with a grain of salt, your mileage may vary.
...was everyone's bullshit detectors exploding in glorious unison. The earlier thread on OSNews has thoroughly debunked this device as a hoax. All you need to know is that 32-bit Windows XP only supports 16 gigs of RAM and this claims to have 1 terabyte of RAM.
And this, gentlemen, is why I don't pay for a subscription to Slashdot.
Bill Clinton: Pimp we can believe in. - The Shirt!!!
No, really. Does it?
Cuz, it looks like people are getting fooled.
Start Running Better Polls
I'd be the first one to buy it. :P
btw, nice to see you alive, Taco!
Non-supporter of Online Activation and any other draconian DRM
The "CPU" photo seems to show the guts of a cheap digital camera.
I likes the Fibers Optic.
:)
Dunno, that HDD looks a lot like a CF card with a fancy sticker on it.
And since when can Windows recognize 1TB of RAM? 2TB happens to be the NTFS limit, so that I can buy, but....
I call shenanigans. But I hope I'm wrong.
That laptop looks like it's running at 800x600.
Will this finally allow me to run multiple programs on Windows XP? With that much ram it should be able to handle the ram-hungry Windows XP.
Of course, maybe by "TB" they don't mean tera-byte, but instead 'tiny-byte', a brand new term meaning really, really freaking small.
"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." - Tennyson
And a battery life of 3 seconds! Awesome!
The first time I read the specs here, I thought "Wow - Infineon are finally getting their new console specced up."
Then I realised it had nothing to do with them.
Strange how I confused a vapourware console with this.
Sure...this new product belongs in a line up along with countless other fine product not making it out of the door, nay, not making it out of the schemer's mind, such as:
When I read the summary, I looked for the 'It's funny. Laugh' foot icon to the right, but my search was in vain...apparently, we're supposed to take this seriously.
In the article, there is a screenshot of a supposed 'System Properties' dialog box showing the following:
Never mind the indecision between using commas (6,80 Ghz) and decimal points (1.00 TB), but according to Microsoft, the most physical memory a Windows XP Professional system can support is 4 GB (or 128 GB for 64-bit edition).
In short, I call shennigans.
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Myar SE has just announced a new 16.1GHz 100TB RAM, 5 Elephants and 20TB HDD laptop, which is "to be announced in the very near future". Apparently it does not use a hard disc, instead it is based on "solid state Myar SE® imaginary Pixies"
What the fuck?
Why is Slashdot basing its news on rumour all of a sudden?
Wait, I'm new here aren't I.
Fake! Just search for "atom chip"
The general consensus at OSNews is that this is a fraud and a complete lie.
http://osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=11784
Some people have pointed out some interesting discrepancies in the images and so forth.
Cyric Zndovzny at your service.
I® for® one® welcome® our® new®...
I can't be bothered with this.
[Something about a beowulf cluster of these goes here]
Martin
Tagline from the website... "Welcome to the world of nanomicrons and beyond!" All credibility went out the window right there. Seriously, how much pot do you have to smoke to come up with stuff like this. My grandma can photoshop better than the morons at "Atom Chip Corporation." If anyone gives these people money, they deserve what they're getting - absolutely nothing.
Government's view of the economy: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving,regulate it. If it stops moving, subsidize it.
Haha whatever. This is right up there with unlimted energy mangets, the BatMax battery life enhancing sticker and the MPT Fuel disc that you put in your gas tank to get improved mileage by "harnessing the power of holograms and frequencies to directly affect the properties of the fuel in your tanks, thus affecting the way it
burns giving you more miles per gallon"
Seeing is believing.... I now believe the articles posted passed a filter that consists of a monkey hitting a keyboard with mostly "reject" buttons and one "accept" button.
6.8 GHz, 1 TB RAM, 2TBHDD? Right. And Slashdot's only going to post this article once.
Will it also have a Bitboys video card and come with Duke Nukem Forever?
Their "dylithium crystal" based transceiver, at least the one on the left, looks really familiar...
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I have worked in some large datacenters, and even high-end machines that cost over $1,000,000 can't come close to those specs. there is NO WAY POSSIBLE for this to actually be real. I'm almost sure that they just photoshopped stuff and made some "special" labels for things. Are there even solid-state storage devices out there that are 256GB????
"In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates?"
omfg! this is sooooo obviously fake, it's not funny
;)
on second-hand it IS funny... omfg!
a couple of photoshop enhanced pics... augh!
there are so many problems with the info shown its hard to tell where to start.
Hint: it has 256mb of ram, and a 1gb drive
Did you know that this guy totally won a Gold Genius award, a Special Gold Award, and the prestigious Grand Prix for an Excellent Scientific Invention at the World Genius Convention in Tokyo, Japan?
I used to laugh at sites like this. Then the nanomicrons got me. I don't laugh anymore, man.
Carousel is a lie!
And it will make the Kessel run in 11.9 parsecs ? Good way to measure. By the way, my brand-new Nissan makes the New York-Los Angeles run in only 1000 miles !
I posted this story earlier but had it rejected... If it's all a fantasy, which sounds fairly likely, they're going to look rather daft on the 5th of January:
c ator/product_details.asp?prodid=5420
http://cesweb.org/attendees/show_floor/product_lo
Everything on the page is quantum this and quantum that. Hell, my right pinky is quantum if you want to get technical.
Well, their RAM (if it actually exists oustide of someones head) is actually some form of holographic storage according to this other page of theirs.
...I wonder how long it will take to defrag...
Pacifist paratroopers yell, "Ghandi!" when they jump.
The only thing that scares me is that its still running on Windows XP. Whats with Vista?? Or Mac Os X or Linux..... Is that a OEM Product of the future where vendors are forced to use a version of Windows .
And why does it still use old fassion keyboards??
They've finally released the specs for Phantom?
6.8GHz? Sounds like they're summing up two 3.4GHz chips or something screwy like that. That in itself may be pretty cool, but like the original author, I'm skeptical that anything new and exciting is being introduced here.
"Welcome to the World of Nanomicrons and Beyond!"
So... "The world of femto and even atto, zepto, an yocto!"
Sends shivers, dosn't it!
... should fire every single employee of Apple's laptop division and hire these guys... or not. Slashdot keeps sinking.
This image alone... http://atomchip.com/db4/00366/atomchip.com/_uimage s/256Mx6M.jpg (from http://atomchip.com/_wsn/page3.html )
It's the "NvIOpRAM 24GB [3-pin]", also known as the 1/4" to 1/8" gold-plated headphone adapter available at RadioShacks everywhere.
The Register has a link to the company's press release with a few pictures. The so-called "Quantum II" processor shown in the "processor compartment" bears a striking resemblance to a mobile Pentium III chip with a heat pipe and fan assembly arranged almost identically to those in Dell laptops. The various
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DNF is finished, but it's been rebundled as an exclusive release for Infineon's Phantom game console. They're waiting for the hardware to ship to customers... ;)
I do not fail; I succeed at finding out what does not work.
This is hilarious bullshit.
Malike Bamiyi wanted my assistance.
I find it very misleading to state that the speed of a quad system (4 1.7 Ghz processors) is the speed of each processor multiplied by the number (4 * 1.7 = 6.8).
After reading that portion of the specification, I find it difficult to read the rest of it without laughing openly.
Nice try.
Let me play: I have a 1.4 Ghz Thinkpad, a 2.8 Ghz HP Presario laptop, and a 500 Mhz iBook. Using the logic from the specifications at that site, those three laptops mean that I have a single 4.7 Ghz laptop? If so, please tell me how I can get Tiger to run at that speed on that 500 Mhz iBook!
"May I have ten thousand marbles, please?"
If this isnt a hoax, and the technique is real.. from their own pricing 1GB of ram based on this ram-technique cost $750 .
I'll finally be able to run all the console emulators without the damned lag! Hoorah!
Generation Trance: What generation are you?
But the article says it will. Did you RTFA?
http://cesweb.org/attendees/directory/rd_exhibitor _details.asp?exhibid=7059&
I would love to be there to see a demo... While being at CES doesn't mean its ready for the world it does mean this is more then just a prank.
Its a real company, with possibly real products although they could just be fishing for stupid investors also, Wish I could be there to find out
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Windows does not support 1TB of RAM nor 2TB of diskspace. If it were Linux, I could believe it but this is just another photoshop.
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...that with every order will come with two strippers to entertain you while you set the machine up. I mean, c'mon, Taco, if you're gonna give us a nerd hard-on, at least include something naughty, too.
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
I still don't think this hardware is enough to run Windows Vista. Nice try though :)
I can't believe with all their hi-tech prowess they can't create a decent website!
How is anybody supposed to take them seriously?
I already feel sorry for those poor souls(or shall I say idiots) who give that crook some money. The penalties for this type of scam should be much higher and much more strictly enforced.
Has to be the fact that their, "NvIOpRAM 24GB" is just a mini-stereo jack, available at Your local Electronics Store. Sweet that means i can build one of these for like $20!
Sometimes I wish computers were less friendly.
This laptop looks awesome, but why is it still running Windows?
Those who know, do not speak. Those who speak, do not know. ~Lao Tzu
Who allowed this bullshit to go through ? First, no company that respect itself would show a web page like this one. Ok, their device (6.8ghz) to read their memory might be legit, but which intel board with the 855 support four pentium M, again ?
.. Anyone know what that would do to this small 2GB flash dri.., err, 2TB ram :)
And their 2GB device, I mean, 2TB device, that use 5V and 2.5 --> MICRO -- amps to WRITE 6GB per second ? It would take much more just to have the circuit resistance beaten =)
They also claim 2000g operating shock
Here's a link to the OSNews discussion itself:
http://osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=11784
Read the debunking for yourself.
Cyric Zndovzny at your service.
It's a really entertaining hoax, I think. Something to dream about, and long for the "future" when specs like this will be common. (-:
Most interesting with this is the way clueless media reports about it. Do a search for news at google and you'll find a few already picking up on it:
http://news.google.se/news?q=atom+chip
Yet another smudge on the apparently fine line between "news for nerds" and blatant rubbish. Mod me down all you like, really - how _did_ this get on the front page?
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If you read the Specification section it is mentioned that this beast does run Linux.
running 1024, i cant get the entire page on my screen
Just out of curiosity can WinXP SP2 even scale to those specs? I know *nix machines can and have, but I would be curious what issues might arise with reguards to memmory management.
Also What might the price tag be for such a toy, and does it have any other nice hardware? What about the graphics system, not to mention the system bus?
Will these bits be the bottle neck that makes that ultra fast processor and large RAM and storage cappasity preform no faster then a curent desktop?
Also if the solid state storage is so large and I would assume close to speed in the memmory, why have any memmory? Just fill it up with storage modules and there you go.
Just some thoughts,
~Petaris "The world is open. Are you?"
http://atomchip.com/_wsn/page5.html
Show us a prototype - then we'll talk. Until then, I think this can be dismissed as vapourware, and a rather feeble attempt at it for that matter.
quidquid latine dictum sit altum videtur.
Apparently this "magical computing" corporation has sprinkled their pixie dust on others too. They're actually registered for the next CES:
b itor_details.asp?exhibid=7059
:)
http://www.cesweb.org/attendees/directory/rd_exhi
Personally, I'd rather have the pixie dist they're using then whatever supposed invention they're presenting
It will be dupped in at least 2 days. Count on it.
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.
Because both Foxtrot and CmdrTaco are referring to this Nintendog thing and I still haven't heard about from more boring conventional sources. Or real human beings. I don't know what this latest brain-sucking innovation in kiddie electronics is, but if it's anything like a FurbyTomigotchiPokemon, I'll puke.
Who do you get to be an expert to tell you something's not obvious? The least insightful person you can find? -J Roberts
ROFLMAO That is f*ing hilarious.....
"In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates?"
I think the atom chip people are the same people who produced the alien autopsy video shown a few years ago on Fox. At the least, it looks like they are using screen grabs from the autopsy on their home page.
Two Minus Three Equals Negative Fun -Troy McClure
If this company really did have a non-volatile 2TB memory chip, like hell they would dump all the engineering time into developing a LAPTOP based around it. Bullshit! They would package them up, 20 or so in a box with a couple power supplies, and start shopping them around to raid manufacturers. They'd put 10TB in a 3.5" package and sell it to systems integrators. They'd put seagate out of business, and then use the money to do cool things with processors or whatever.
No, you can tell from the hairbrained business-plan that this is cowflop. Noone is going to go straight into consumer electronics right out of the gate. You'd need to raise so much capital just to deal with customer support issues, sales, inventory, marketing, no way. If they had come up with a real product, they'd be oem-ing it out to the mainframe or supercomputer world as a first step.
I still cannot convince myself that this isn't a hoax... but here's some actually coherent info on the laptop:
World's first solid state laptop?
Atom Chip Corporation Reveal Ultra Fast 6.8GHz Laptop
On the bright side, maybe the slashdot effect will take care of the site. (Assuming they're not running their Apache/1.3.27 Server on their quantum-optical machines)
Yeah, this looks like a corporate website. The admin contact is an @MSN.com address?! Check out the WHOIS info:
Registrant:
Shimon Gendlin
Shimon Gendlin
21 Reed Lane
Westbury, NY 11590
US
Email: atomchip@optonline.net
Registrar Name....: REGISTER.COM, INC.
Registrar Whois...: whois.register.com
Registrar Homepage: www.register.com
Domain Name: atomchip.com
Created on..............: Sun, Aug 25, 2002
Expires on..............: Fri, Aug 25, 2006
Record last updated on..: Fri, Jul 29, 2005
Administrative Contact:
WIPOI
Shimon Gendlin
21 Reed Lane
Westbury, NY 11590
US
Phone: 516-368-4800
Email: shimon_gendlin@msn.com
Technical Contact:
Register.Com
Domain Registrar
575 8th Avenue 11th Floor
New York, NY 10018
US
Phone: 1-902-7492701
Email: domain-registrar@register.com
DNS Servers:
dns1.register.com
dns2.register.com
FreeBSD: The Power to Serve!
That inimitable web-designer Steven Glass is back - and he's having delusions about impressing the IT industry!
Seriously - how did this get posted as a Slashdot story?
If we're talking about hard news I know of several relations of deposed-dictators of third world countries with approximately US$24,500,000 each that needs to be transferred to my personal bank account for which I will be handsomely rewarded. I keep all these e-mails in a folder marked 'spam', but I don't mind telling my friends it's 100% genuine.
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Jesus christ Slashdot, it's so obvious that this is either a hoax or a really huge mistake. I mean, how on earth could such laptop be possible?
Just look at this bullshit:
"Packing Accessories: Quick Guide, Support CD"
The rest I do believe but THAT is just tooooo much!
Full Tilt
I particularly liked the diagram that identified the copper heat pipes for the CPU as fiber optic cables.
I have one already. I keep it on my desk next to my photo of bigfoot, plugged in to my pocket-sized cold fusion reactor. It runs Duke Nukem Forever like a dream!
They actually registered at CES 2006 with their fantastic product specs, the 2TB CF-card for example.
Bitchin' fast 3D2000!
Who cares about the quantum-optical doohickey or the 6.8 Ghz chip. The damn thing has Scroll Lock Mode! Finally, after years of needing to use a USB-based Scroll-Lock button taped to the side of my keyboard, I can finally boost my productivity. I can't wait. Hey, do they support the SysRq key as well?
Wer mit Ungeheuern kämpft, mag zusehn, dass er nicht dabei zum Ungeheuer wird. --Nietzsche
...MS wants Vista's recommended system configuration back...
I own one of these beauties. It's parked next to my Phantom game console. I even have Duke Nukem Forever running between them on my 25 TB/s wireless network.
Maybe the guys from http://www.go-l.com/ are at it again.
PuRAM(tm) anyone?
Oh, wait...
He must be a genius if he is not standing on the sholders of giants.
scholar.google.com
...it still takes over an hour to install a service pack for Windows.
-- Game Developers: Stop porting badly-textured games from crappy console systems!
I've laughed at a lot of funny hoaxes before, but this one is the first that's had me pointing and hooting embarrassingly while uncontrollably choking saliva out my nose!
The limit for 32-bit is 4 GB, and the limit for 64-bit is 128 GB.
Ha ha, you so funny me laugh lots. A 64-bit bus can address 16 exabytes of memory.
In Soviet Russia, Jesus asks: "What Would You Do?"
This is most likely a fraud but it does contains some interesting tid-bits of info that make it appear that it could be true.
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First off they won an award for there laptop by CES.
http://cesweb.org/attendees/awards/innovations/rd
Second, Windows 2003 Datacenter (64-bit) edition does support 1TB, maybe they hacked Windows XP with those files to get 1TB (If they are so super smart you would think they could do this).
Ref: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/64bit/
Third, They are going to CES to show off there product: http://atomchip.com/_wsn/page5.html
So these pieces of info make it seem in the realm of possibilty even though that chance seems so small
Look at the pictures. You can see they have been edited. The screenshot that shows available space on the drive had a real hack job done to it. The TB doesn't even line up straight with the rest of the line. What about the picture of the goofs in clean suits. Looks like they are sitting at a beuty shop. What about the fact that the web page is extremely lack luster? I mean it looks like they used Microsoft paint to do their very amateur editing. This doesn't even begin to look like a good hoax. Ok, if you do a search of Atom Chip Corporation you may come across a CES site that lists them as attendees (http://www.cesweb.org/attendees/directory/rd_exhi bitor_details.asp?exhibid=7059). But, their email address are @optonline.net
See they were too cheap to even pay for webhosting that would at least allow them to have email addresses using the atomchip.com domain.
Oh well, maybe high quality hoaxes will make a come back some day!
Oops. I mean, Back-to-School Fools!
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FTA ... Quantum (R) ...
WTF?
Thats right !
You would think they would include a 10gb NIC or at least a 1gb NIC. To funny, it is usually the little things that kill hoaxes heh?
And I quote from the site:
SPECS: 6.8GHZ CPU (AtomChip® Quantum® II processor or 4 x Intel® Pentium® M processors 1.7CHz)
So its their chip... or Quad Pentium 4 Ms... And we all know that 4x1.7GHz (mispelt on the site) is supposed to equal 6.8GHz. Two things wrong with this - or 4 x PentiumMs? WTF! Weasiling out? Its as if I said "Oh here I came out with this super duper chip... but hey, I'll package the laptop with a Sempron instead..." And as much as it was questionable to fit any of the other components into the laptop, we know for sure that fitting 4 PentiumM CPUs in that space is an impossibility.
Whois of atomchip.com
Administrative Contact:
WIPOI
Shimon Gendlin
21 Reed Lane
Westbury, NY 11590
US
Phone: 516-368-4800
Email: shimon_gendlin@msn.com
Whois of COMPU-TECHNICS.COM
Administrative Contact:
Compu-Technics Inc atomchip@optonline.net
21 Reed Lane
Westdury, NY 11590
US
516-997-8999 fax: 516-9978188
This company has obviously put $$$ into developing tihs laptop. With their huge R&D budget, you'd think that they would have been able to spring for a graphic artist to get a nicer logo than "AtomChip" in a 24pt arial font.
This appears to be their patent:T O2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/search-bool.html&r =2&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=ptxt&s1=5,841,689&OS=5,841,6 89&RS=5,841,689
....
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=P
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
This invention concerns a new non-volatile memory cell where, during the reading of information, a magnetic quantum-optical method is used. This method is based on the recently discovered magnetic quantum-optical effect, named after its discoverer, "Gendlin Effect". This invention also deals with a new composition of materials for non-volatile carrier that could be used as an environment of accumulation with high-density recording of discrete information; it also concerns a non-volatile storing device with random access, built with the use of a new composition of materials and new memory cell.
Thin metal magnetic films with high specific resistance to electric current with various crystal structures are used as the record carrier.
More definitely, this concerns the new magnetic record carrier on thin films with high specific resistance to electricity, deposited from both sides in a thin film-base conductive electrode made from non-magnetic metal with low specific resistance to electric current, which is the source of an electromagnetic field when electric current passes through it, and are packed in porous silicon, whose caverns are filled with the magnetic material of the carrier.
When electric current is sent through the electrode, a magnetic field is generated around it, directed through all layers of thin magnetic films and adjoining areas of porous silicon, whose caverns are filled with the magnetic material of the carrier from the layer next to the porous silicon and thus magnetizes or changes the direction of the magnetic field inside the magnetic carrier. Meanwhile, the magnetic domains of the carrier located between small-sized "hairs" (less than 2.5 nm) in porous silicon, generate resilient mechanical pressure on them (compression and expansion). As a result, the "hairs" are deformed and, according to the principles of quantum mechanics, the energy state changes as the position of electrons is localized, and a quantum of light is generated in the bordering zone of this interaction. (Gendlin Effect, described in detail in the discovery application entitled "Magnetic quantum-optical effect in polycrystalline silicon"). This quantum of light is used to define the characteristics of the carrier concerning its magnetic reversal (signal of reading), that has found its implementation in the real device.
It has to exist first!
Y'know, I've seen Linux run on a washing machine. I've even seen Linux run on a toaster, but I ain't never seen Linux run on no phantom Atomchip laptop.
Never confuse volume with power.
Oh, I wouldn't say that. I see Windows running on it and the one thing I have learned over the years is that Windows can suck the power out of anything.
For every advance in processor, disk and memory technology, a new release of Windows follows which ties more of it up. Heck when this thing starts up Windows probably fills up half the available memory (like it does on my 1.25GB desktop system) with DLLs and whatnot, whatever it can't find on the system disk it'll probably create just to meet expectations.
I shudder to think what Longhorn will demand of systems for minimum hardware.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
You would think that they'd take screenshots and not digital pics of the screen itself and then modify the pictures... This is a very poor hoax, at least they could have had Slackware 20.1 or something on it, that would have been believeable.
Gimme a break, this site is showing pieces of a CD drive and a fan with copper heat pipes and then badly Photoshopping its logo on things and claiming it is an optical drive? WTF, Slashdot needs some quality control.
TripMaster, you totally have to start your own news site, where you're completely in control of the content that is posted! It'd be such a rad site that I'd visit daily.
For sure, it's fake. No question about that.
I thought it could be a website for a scambaiter at first but they are not talking about the possibility to buy anything... and moreover, they have a link showing they were at CES 2006!
How can they pay the fee to attend to that kind of shows? Is that a hobby for some rich old man?
Not true according to this quote:
"The new AtomChip® Quantum® II processor with 256MB on-board memory has a high speed with very low consumption of electrical energy."
It uses very little elecrical energy. What I have to figure out though is what other type of energy it uses. I'm suspecting bullshit or some other type biological energy source.
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Umm...try 4gigs. Anything over 4 gigs requires a 64-bit OS since 2^32 bytes = 4gigs.
Frankly, I'd expect better web-design from such pioneers... "WE ARE #1." Right...
Here's my favorite bit of BS:
DECODER/TRANSCEIVER is mounted on the motherboard of the computer (or other electronic devices) and is electrically hooked up to the processor. The following devices are located in the decoder/transceiver: laser beam splitter, spatial light modulator, optoelectronic word mirror with transform lens, matrix converter of the optical display in electrical signals and other circuits for the interface.
And the components themselves...hmmm. Some look straight out of some middle schooler's summer science project (though I don't mean to insult some of those). 256MB cache? LOL...this is great.
Exactly; Who would make a $$$ machine that looks like such ass.
Beyond the nonsensical claims about the product features and capabilities, you can easily see where all their screen caps have been edited.
If you're going to put effort into a hoax, at least make it good. I thought it would take a better job of photoshopping to make it to the front page of
Tom Servo with a full-head cataract.
I saw this guy at CES last year and apparently they are buying another booth. Where is the money coming from? Personally it looked liek he took CF cards and glued on stickers with big numbers. They were trying to lease laptops with the tech for $6000 where you return it later.
Never mind the indecision between using commas (6,80 Ghz) and decimal points (1.00 TB), but according to Microsoft, the most physical memory a Windows XP Professional system can support is 4 GB (or 128 GB for 64-bit edition).
:-)
Well obviously they have a Quantum multi-core design, with eight cores each running XP Pro you get a TB of memory supported and the dialogue just adds it all up!
The whole comma/decimal point inconsitancy is a byproduct of the quantum design, which locks in actual characters used in a dialogue only when a user views the screen.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
If you click through the contact pages, you may end up here...
http://www.compu-technics.com/pages/22/index.htm
at the bottom is a picture of an oscar with "Gold oscar from EWEI - bulgaria" crudley scrolled on it. not to mention their WIPO certificate for quantum technology!
I love how the "name" of the chip uses the exact same font as the quantum line of HDs. Quantum Fireball HD
You fall and receive 6334 damage.
You die.
Hey, don't be that sceptical. Check out an earlier version of the website and you'll see that there are actually a lot of hiqh quality products.
Rock on, Atomchip!
Tell momma I love her!IN4$%JK#%DAT+0+0[NO CARRIER]
Is it me, or does the AtomChip Logo look a lot like the LSI Logic Logo?
Its not what it is, its something else.
This must be some school prank. Apart from the claim made (TB chips? Yeah, right!)
To do it in the facilities they claim to be doing it in (with that 'air shower') is impossible. And the image of them 'working' in the 'clean suits' at a vertical marker easel has to be a joke...
(btw. Where's the XP Window everybody's talking about? I haven't seen hide nor hair or it on the site.)
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... until it runs CherryOS.
My other post is a First.
Hmphh. Check out the tagline on one of their home pages:
Atom Chip Corporation: Welcome to the World of Nanomicrons and Beyond!
Nanomicrons? Since the adoption of "femto" in 1964, (and considering the fact that there were much fewer uses for it before then) this word was supposed to have died. Really... why don't they just use "Billiardth-inches" while they're at it. [--to say nothing about whatever groundbreaking processing techniques allowed them to fabricate a processor at 1/100,000 the wavelength of x-rays]
>> Standing on head makes smile of frown, but rest of face also upside down.
And it runs Longhorn!
You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
"Communication: 10/100 Base-T LAN on board, MDC Fax/Modem V.90/V.92 on Board"
Screw the 1TB of RAM.. It's got a V.90/V.92 modem that FAXES TOO! ON BOARD! Wow, what will they think of next?
Not to mention the air shower, gatta get me one of those.
Thats waht you going to look like if its true... I'd PM each of you and remind you about your moronity :P
They say they are price competitive with non-quantum technology.
Then they have the following prices:
Let's see, then that 2TB drive will cost $5000, and that included 1TB of RAM will cost $6000, for a minimum notebook cost of $11,000. And that's assuming the rest of the notebook (including their miracle processor) is free. While 1TB of RAM for $6000 is a good price, 2TB of hard drive for $5000 is a bit on the steep side.
Oh, and some loony hardware enthusiasts have already shown that even some current processors can run at 7GHz.
Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com."
The purpose of that site was not known.
While looking at the pictures, I thought, 'Man, John Titor probably needed one of these to control his microsingularity drive(s).' Hell, maybe good ol' John is on the board over there at AtomChip!
They just forgot to mention the stats were for 1,000 units :)
If you trouble yourself to view other posts you will not dozens of idiot geek wanna-bees shocked that slashdot editors did not spot the technical errors of this article. I imagine they are outraged by the obvious political bias of The Onion and Madd Magazine?
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On one of the company pics, I saw one person siting on a garden plastic chair. Also, the facilities don't impress me much, 4 scientist in a small bathroom looking at some stuff. http://atomchip.com/db4/00366/atomchip.com/_uimage s/8GBAdapters.JPG These pics look funny to me, I could do the same hoax at home with some sort of glue and electronics component I have in here. The most funny part of it is the 2T memory allocation of Windows XP, and why XP OS by the way? Common Slashdot!!! you could do better!
It runs linux too in case you don't like being limited and encumbered.
The government which is strong enough to protect you from everything is strong enough to take everything from you.
They even took a picture from next January's CES. You'd think they'd advertise the time machine feature... http://atomchip.com/_wsn/page5.html
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Exactly how long will I get from a dirty-nuke's worth of Plutonium in a lead backpack? Sheesh, no one answers the tough questions anymore.
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scam, joke, making fun of... i seen this one 3-4 days ago and i laugh my ass off just google any of the components, no links whatsoever
Muzik.4.Machines
The CEO has a patent on his invention. Hm... And here is a somehow interesting post about the guy and his company. As a teenager he invented the floppy disk and leased it to IBM.???
The 1.0TB line was the first one to call my attention. Windows wasn't ready for TB's yet, shouldn't it say 1024 GB?
... adjust your gamma correction to see a faint distinct-border around it.
/. *before* production like .... "Company plans to develop 1TB laptop" or something.
Also, this line seemed to have some contrast with the surroundings (typical photoshop edition)
The laptop looked streamline, I'd expect a prototype using a desktop PC. Laptops are very expensive to produce, a customized laptop of this magnitude would've appeared in
Finally, what the heck is "nanomicrons and beyond"? It's the most stupid buzzphrase i've ever heard.
Those aren't even GOOD photoshop mock ups. Even within a given pic of the "processor" some fonts are sharp and clear while others are fuzzy. The whole site took no more than a drunken hour and a half. I expect a better quality of internet hoax in this day and age, dammit.
this is getting old and so are you
blog
I'm sure it won't cost much, right?
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I don't want to sound like a jerk but i believe that NetBSD runs on the toaster and not Linux.
It is a better fake than I usually see. But really. Windows would know about terabytes?
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Or it could be top secret government technology that some russians have discovered and posted a funny website to say: hey we know about your secrets now.
I told my roommate if I heard him yelling "Sit Stacy" one more time I was going ot murder him. I'm pretty sure I was serious too. Almost as bad as constantly hearing him speak is watching him. He sits there with the DS on his lap. It looks like he's screaming at his crotch. Guests at my house think he calls his penis Stacy.
IN FACT I'M RUNNING IT IN THE FUTURISTIC "CAPS LOCK" MODE. ..
however slashdot is not compabitile with this new technology. It gave me a "lameness filter" when I tried my orginal post, so I'm now running in regular mode.
My favorite site is going to the wall! /. regulars may be aware of 'Tech news/social bookmarking (or however it's being described this week)' website, digg.com. /. but iplemented them rather differently and there is no editorial control - stories make it to the homepage by virtue of their mod rating. /. some days later and I suspect it's because folk are reading digg and then submitting the item here where the editorial intervention creates the few days of lag.
Some other
It's taken a lot of it's modding ideas from
That site featured this 'news' last week where its legitimacy was quickly demolished (it's hardly difficult).
I mention this because I see a number of digg.com stories making their way to
I've always considered Slashdot to be a place for interesting and intelligent news and debate. The more I see of stories like this making their way on here, the more I am (sadly) beginning to doubt that.
I'm all for a bit of 'dumbing down' for light relief every now and then (that's why I dig digg) but can we please try and maintain at least a reasonable level of genuine geek newsworthiness?
...the thing that's been holding up quantum computing is the task of requisitioning a lot of hot glue and play-doh.
And what's with the lone cyrillic tab on the properties window?
"Win treats sysadmins better than users. Mac treats users better than sysadmins. Linux treats everyone like sysadmins."
You can check out their quantum-optical headphone jacks for yourself at their CES booth
Just look at the angle the laptop is at and then look at the property window http://atomchip.com/_wsn/page4.html
IDK could be my eyes but it to me looks like its been overlayed onto the screen..
two more to point out (Although you can change'em with windows so this my just be out there) The mouse cursor looks like its off OsX and the help and close buttons at the top look iffy to me...
I will buy one when I can get my new Radion xt99999 with 10 TB of video memory and a 10 TB GPU.....
True, but they show a Windows XP screenshot going into terabytes.
Bill Clinton: Pimp we can believe in. - The Shirt!!!
.... will it run Lotus 1-2-3?
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I pity the foo' who continues to generate money for them after THAT article hit the fp.
Bye Slashdot.
I see all kinds of jokes posted here about flux capacitors, jiggawatts, april fools, Duke Nukem Forever, and the like. But nobody seems to have noticed that this is a website FROM THE FUTURE!!! Proof is on the CES-2006 page. They were ALREADY at the Consumer Electronics Show 2006 in Las Vegas. This show is taking place this comming January! I for one welcome our new time traveling superpowered laptop slinging overlords.
They should have created their fake screen shots using Linux instead of XP. Then the /. crowd would have bought it. :-)
If someone is passing you on the right, you are an asshole for driving in the wrong lane.
I can't wait for the rackmounted server version of this, I need two of them to power my Holodeck.
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(Cue the M$FT-bashing trolls...)
Isn't this about as much machine as what Vista will need to be functional?
They say the mind is the first thing to
From their CES reg.:
Atom Chip Corporation
Old Country Road
Westbury, NY 11590
USA Telephone: 516-428-9859
Fax: 516-997-8188
From their WHOIS:
21 Reed Lane
Westbury, NY 11590
Phone: 516-368-4800
Someone somewhere is laughing their ass off right now.
http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/ces20047.htm
This is not shenanigans!
The guy took my credit card information when I order up one of these super laptop!
When you order make sure you have your social security number, birth date, maiden name, banking info and pin handy. They need all that info so you can pass the tight security screening process to buy one of these things.
Order now! I can hardly wait the 4-8 weeks till I get mine. Maybe Windows will work really fast!
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Let me know when it is real. In the mean time I will get that new flying car I have been hearing about.
See my blog http://ilovecookes.blogspot.com/ for light hearted technical information.
This company (atomchip/compu-technics) was also supposed to have 'solar memory' (http://www.compu-technics.com/pages/3/index.htm). r y.WMV
Well, found the following on the net: http://www.compu-technics.com/images/solar%20memo
Best laugh I've had in YEARS!
There seems to be a mistake on that Microsoft page linked by the parent.
/. that I wasn't a script, in order to post. Figures.)
"PAE is an Intel-provided memory address extension that enables support of up to 64 GB of physical memory for applications running on most 32-bit (IA-32) Intel Pentium Pro and later platforms. Support for PAE is provided under Windows 2000 and 32-bit versions of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. 64-bit versions of Windows do not support PAE."
Up above that (where the parent is referring to) they say that only 2003 (in a few additions) support the feature. I'm not sure if it was intentional or an oversight, but regardless I'm pretty sure that this is an issue that was addressed quite a while ago for 2000/XP.
(On a tangent, I had a really hard time proving to
Scroll down a bit on this page to the NVIORAM pictures. Not only does it give you TB's of storage, but it also lets you plug your headphones into your record player.
And also, proof the US Patent office will give a patent to anything from anybody
This was already posted -3295 days ago!
--
"Open source is good." - Steve Jobs
"Open source is evil." - Microsoft
... to AtomChip? That's why Steve Jobs canceled the keynote in Paris!
I want one!
Boy howdy am I excited about this new machine. Perhaps finally I will know the true meaning of Scroll Lock!
You say you got a real solution
Well, you know
We'd all love to see the plan
(The Beatles)
I wonder if this is intended to be similar to the folks that created the paper using the bafflegab (I forget the actual name) generator and got it admitted to a convention as a presented paper, and were later kicked out when the 'non-scholarly' method was discovered. This could be another attempt to see how far fake hardware can go until it's also found out. (I did like the Jan 2006 CES photos, though... nice touch!)
Look at this bullshit!!! On the homepage the guys in the "clean room" are wearing SURGICAL MASKS!!! And one of them is wearing jeans! I bemoan the fate of Slashdot.
What is the airspeed of a fully laden swallow?
Do they have a Handwavium doping process or what?
N4st0r, trixx0r h0bb1tz0rz! Th3y st0l3 0ur pr3c10uzz!
How professional their site looked in 2003 *cough http://web.archive.org/web/20030403045220/http://a tomchip.com/
I did some google research and found some interesting stuff.
Gendlin, the CEO of AtomChip and Dr. NakaMats founded the Gendlin-NakaMats Institute. NakaMats is either a dreamer, a genius inventor or just simply nuts - his website. Here is an interview and an article about that guy.
NakaMats admits, that he's getting royalties from IBM for every single floppy drive sold.
It all sounds very strange to me, but on the other hand... who knows.
I want to believe this.
As a programmer I don't know too much about the hardware specifications but it seems to me if a phone can handle radio oscillations at 5.8 gighz then why is it unthinkable that other hardware could?
All this talk of why the CPU companies haven't done this before now rings false, we all know that for the last few years technical hurdles haven't been a problem and more and more it has become a financial struggle.
The AMD Intel fight brings this totally to light, Intel could have had it's current technology available years ago without the P4 architechture, either they are really stupid or something is going on.
Their marketting budgets are getting bigger and bigger and they are attacking parralel processing instead of massive power.
The first quantum computing chip that comes out will be as I understand it the last processor we ever need, there is simply no money in this if they succeed.
Genius' of the past have faced similar financial hurdles and have perservered in the same way, with public exebitions and without comment from their competitors.
We all know what he's proposing doesn't break the laws of physics (like for example the nuclear bomb?) but we are sceptical none the less.
I'm not going to put off buying a new computer based on this possibility but I won't be surprised if it happens either.
"4 - Connector for Fibers Optical cable" Granted, they're probably not a primarily English-speaking company, but hmm... Where can I get some Fibers Optical?
Does it run Linux?
Actually, it says it WILL run Linux.
Software sucks. Open Source sucks less.
People feel this intrinsic need to debunk... THIS. Come on people. 1TB ram? That's right folks, I've got 1000 sticks of 1GB SODIMM in my laptop casing. ....Go figure ;P
(I have a nasty feeling this'll get modded flamebait. Oh well.)
On the fence on this one myself, but this does seem to ligitmize them a bit more:_ 2005honorees.asp?category=48
http://cesweb.org/attendees/awards/innovations/rd
Now... they do have a crappy website and the optical 1/8" jack "memory modules" tickle the crap out of me, but it looks like this may actually have some legs.
Also see the under-the-hood photos at: http://p2pnet.net/story/6160
I'm sure Thomas Edison's first light bulb experiments didn't look all that ligitimate either...
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AtomChip® optoelectronic non-volatile Quantum-Optical memory pwoering a voice-actuated Caps Locks command? How perfectly cromulent!
Give a man a fish and you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish, and he'll say "WHERE'S MY FISH, YOU IDIOT?"
These guys are way ahead! Even their website has been designed for a 7220 by 6144 screen resolution!
Mark my words;
"1TB of RAM should be enough for anyone!"
Geezo, I'm impressed... BS detector overload - Which makes me wonder, does any program ever use Scrollock mode?
Oh well, what the hell...
This one seems to be a time paradox.
The post is it's own parent, created by some time flux and a mixture of usenet bitterness. The parent posted itself as a reply to its own "cid".
There, this explains it quite well. I'm sure i'll get lots of scientific cred for it since most people are still in trance from the 1TB laptop.
It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile
Be yourself no matter what they say
atomchip.com has its data on compu-tech.com which is located in NY.
While I was unable to find a "Shimon Gendlin", a "Valentia Gendlin" is filed as the Chairman of Compu-technics Inc.
The last Experian Business Report is from 1998.
Yes my PC has also 8Gb. At work we have a few AMD64 machines with 256Gb SRAM. However this machine claims to have 8Tb which is the same as 1TB. That is 1024 times more than my desktop PC! For you info b=bit, B=byte.
I'll give away one of these laptops for every acre of land my pacific beach-front property purchased. Located in Oaklahoma, and only $2500 per acre. Just send checks made out to me, Cash, and I'll send you the laptop and the property deeds. Any buyers?
http://www.accelerateglobalwarming.com
I mean, last week I submitted a story about my imaginary friend Harvey getting Linux to run on a cheese sandwich. And did they post that? Nooooo. I had the Beowulf Cluster comment already written and everything.
~~~~~ BigLig2? You mean there's another one of me?
mine was about saving sea lions ... for bbq.
El reg has a page on this malarkey
According to the register's quotes, the memory is "read by a laser beam. This memory does not have any moving mechanical parts." So if there are no moving parts, the laser beam won't be able to move, right? So how then can it read more than one bit, total? This is an amazing breakthrough accomplished in secret. Take that, mainstream scientific research!
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StrawberryFrog
I have at least three former bosses who, upon seeing the site, will have their purchasing department order one ASAP.
Even if they read the rest of the site.
And anyone who tells them it's a hoax will be permanently discredited in the eyes of said PHBs
If this is a scam, I know exactly the kind of "Manage IT by magazine articles" twits they're targeting. If it's a hoax, their targets are the same set of PHBs.
It could be a psychology study in human gullibility, or the tendency to believe unconfirmed sources if the news is what you want to hear. Let's be blunt, we'd all be thrilled if this were true, and if someone less technologically inclined were to see this many would believe it.
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The contact details are here:
b itor_details.asp?exhibid=7059
:)
http://www.cesweb.org/attendees/directory/rd_exhi
Everyone ring in *now* and ask about this product and post your results below
I did a few minutes of googling on various bits from that site and apparently the guy who runs it is called Shimon Gendlin, a mad russian spammer^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hscientist, who, apart from not only not having the luxuring of an msn email account, also has one on optonline.net, but none on atomchip.com nor on the only other site on the web crosslinked to his site, compu-technics.com, which pretends to be an industry trade show giving out medals to our dear mad russian.
It's all good for a laugh, though. Props to him if he actually finds some poor fucker of an investor dumb enough to part with dollars for some gold plated audio jacks and some photshopped jpgs.
Talking about photoshopped jpegs, the image of the laptop is a bit strange since they somehow managed to stick in the trackpad and single button of an apple powerbook instead of the usual PC two button one.
So perhaps it's really all an atom heart mother.
Other than sounding ridiculous, even the images are badly photoshopped. Just have a look at the artifacts around the clock speed section of the System Properties screenshot.
lets not forget our traditions: ....
a beiwulf cluster of these
if I wanted vaporware updates I'd make them up
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This is hilarious... you've got to see their "solar memory" video for yourself:
r y.WMV
http://www.compu-technics.com/images/solar%20memo
Yes, evil WMV format, not my fault...
I guess Intel has a new processor speed of 1.7ChigaHertz!!! Also, I guess they got AMI onboard somehow :-p
why limit your self to NTFS? The file system I am currently using can handle 16TByte . Besides Reiserfs there are many other filesystems. And I am sure that most of them do not have those small limits NTFS has.
Actually, mini-TOSlink jacks are the same size as 1/8" headphone jacks. You get an adapter to fit to a standard optical cable (see link). My iRiver IHP-120 mp3 player has a single jack that does quadruple duty as optical in/out and line in/out.
Apparently also they've replaced the USB ports with an ODN access. It also functions as a tricorder.
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"According to myth, the Earth was created in six days. But watch out, here's Genesis, we'll do it for you in six minutes."
:) )...
-- McCoy, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Just sounded appropriate considering the outlandish claims.
Besides if it were real, don't you think SOMEONE would have found out about this BEFORE this "announcement"?
In addition it would be more believable if the T's were G's.... So, instead of 1TB of RAM, it would be 1GB of RAM, and instead of 2 TB's of HD it would be something like 640GB of HD (couldn't help it...
Oh well, back to reality.
Somehow I doubt a bios from 1999 will support 5Gigs of ram let alone 1T of ram.
2002 blurb
US Patent No. 5,717,235
US Patent No. 5,707,887
US Patent No. 5,602,791
US Patent No. 5,390,142
this
People this is clearly a joke, not a hoax. If they were smart, a few commercial banners on the site could've proved to be an excellent revenue source, considering the number of misguided /.ers visiting.
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Imagine, if you could get all this memory to be addressable in an operating system other then Windows that can address this 1TB. You can make an iPod replacement to die for if you could make it small too.
It's even got laser beams that shoot into your eyes and a fiberoptic uplink to the net ala-Snow Crash. Virtual reality worlds, anyone?
- they managed to make it x86 compatible to run XP!
OR- they managed to recompile the XP source to make it run on their piece of EEPROM and make XP recognize 1TB RAM
- they have manage to break the way RAM is mis-sized in XP (516MB??)
- They use audio jacks to connect to 3 pin memory
- looking at the solar ram video, seems to me like they invented a "light powered mirror"
So to me, this just screams SCAM... or its a Mossad false front for black ops. PT Barnum was right.This ought to be powerful enough to run Windows Vista at a usable speed I reckon.
For posting obvious nonsense at least three times in the last week, outside the humor section, and it not being April Fool's; CmdrTaco is hereby relieved of duty, and demoted to the rank of EnsTaco.
Everyone go get your brooms! Shennigans!
Seems like a lot of people are getting worked up about how fake this all is, outraged that Slashdot accepted it as a story*, etc. But in the end, it's clearly a joke. I got a kick out of the scientists sitting on cheap plastic chairs, the minijack RAM, etc. Lighten up folks.
* That said, I have no doubt that CmdrTaco probably bought this one hook, line, and sinker and was excited to break this news.
Go on, mod me -1 Redundant, you insensitive clods!
The parent is right, and by that time we'll apparently still be waiting for Longhorn.
This looks like a fantastic GROUND FLOOR opportunity for the informed investor!
Hey, you guys should really be using all your brainpower to find ways to invest in my uncles company instead of making fun of it. Anyone who puts money into this company today will get 10^10 return within 8 quantum optical years! You may have good questions from the information at http://atomchip.com/_wsn/page2.html. Questions such as, how can you address 1TB through a CF to IDE adaptor? Or, "In one square millimeter there are 512 x 512 = 262,144 stacks, each 1m in diameter" wouldn't that be 25cm thick? Don't worry, the answer to all your quetions is QUANTUM! Quantum processes make everything possible! My uncle is a genius! Send money! I need your help transfering $10 million from a Nigerian bank account!
And as far as the GHz rating, means nothing! Nothing I tell you! Not until you know how much work/clock it can accomplish.
Frankly this whole article is a waste of bandwidth.
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
The small print says 4x Pentium M 1.7ghz.
Russian Mafia.
Two more words:
Money Laundering.
This should be called the "Slim Whitman" laptop. Slim Whitman was a fictitious singer whose albums were for sale by tv commercials back in the '70s; the commercials stated that he'd sold hundreds of thousands of records in Europe or Elbonia or something like that. The guy looked lame, the music sounded like ass, and the whole thing was just a shell business for money laundering. There was no album, even. Trick was, he actually became something of a cult figure, so they ended up having to produce an album after all.
For your security, this post has been encrypted with ROT-13, twice.
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Esta es una firma en Espanol.
http://slashdot.org/science/02/01/08/137246.shtml
Someone had to say it.
...and only intel integrated graphics.
Wheres the nVidia opticalforce or ATi opticalon?
bleh
Slashdot goes downhill, continues to report jokes as news. Credibility is a thing of the past, etc etc etc. Get a grip guys, a few more of these idiotic jokes and I, and many others I suspect, will simply no longer bother to come to this site.
Apple moving to AtomChip architecture and hardware...
Give a man a fire, and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he's warm for the rest of his life. (Terry Pratchett)
It'll come bundled with DNF already installed, plus I'm sure the video will be the BitBoys Oy's "Glaze3D" doncha know!
Clearly this is a hoax but for what reason? It's funny, I'll grant them that.
The only motivation I can think of is to stress test the web server by getting the link posted on slashdot. I must admit, I'm impressed they're still online after what must have been a brutal slashdotting.
Screw the phantom computer they're shilling. Sell me one of their webservers.
OK, that was one word.
Your discussion of Slim Whitman is in complete disagreement with Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slim_Whitman
Among other places.
Care to cite sources for your story of Slim Whitman?
You shoudn't have bothered.
so that when someone actually invents it, they can collect royalties. That's the new USPTO business model.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Do *NOT* observe the quantum chips. That totally ruins them.
Well, at least until he did this.
Here is a revealing (albeit old) article on Shimon Gendlin from a 1997 issue of Electronic News:
NEW YORK-A Russian emigre scientist brought a 128MB magnetic memory device to Electronic News' editorial office here last week, demonstrated the leapfrogging non-volatile memory storing files via his Toshiba laptop, and with his interpreter described the billion-dollar possibilities from this and other prototypes he has developed.
The scientist, Shimon Gendlin, may hold, in the sense of magnetic memory science available at prices anyone can afford, a holy grail. He described the device as thin films of a combination of Cobalt and Gold over a polysilicon substrate; the "metal spin transistors" he says can withstand 200 degrees Celsius temperatures and are produced with standard fabrication equipment.
Strangely, U.S. researches into magnetic memory have never heard of Shimon Gendlin, or Kappa Numerics, the Israeli R&D house for whom he worked. But, the fact that he, using technology that Kappa claims it owns, fabricated a 128MB nonvolatile part and is ready to sell these and more in OEM quantities for about $1,000 per Gigabyte drew neargasps and several incredulous statements.
The president of flash memory lead player SanDisk was aghast, and skeptical. Eli Harari likened this to "someone telling you he can fly at one and a half times the speed of light." Dr. Daughton said, "God, I'd be surprised . . . That sounds about five years ahead of where anybody is right now."
Until now, Dr. Gendlin says he was barred from speaking on his work under an injunction that Kappa Numerics obtained from a Delaware court. Dr. Gendlin's own Coral Gables, Fla.-based attorneys last year convinced the court to lift the ban and then the scientist filed the U.S. patent for it, he said.
HERE COMES THE QUANTUM
Dr. Gendlin says he is ready to commercialize this "Quantum" technology. Quantum is the term he uses, perhaps to avoid using the term magnetic memory which would get closer to the words used in existing patents. The two principals of Kappa Numerics to whom EN spoke were incensed by discussions of Dr. Gendlin commercializing the work, saying "everything he says is incorrect" and that they would prosecute.
NRL researcher and magnetic memory expert Dr. Gary Prinz placed this device technology in perspective. The theory behind it is "50 years or older" and this in fact was the way computers originally held data; he recalled purchasing (very expensive) "DEC 11s, DEC 8s" in the 1960s which used magnetic, non-volatile memory. In the 1970s, semiconductor memories altogether displaced magnetic memory because it was so much more practical to make in commercial volumes. The government's funding in these magnetics therefore died down, and so did academic research and industry's engineering of it.
Still, the NRL has projects ongoing at IBM, Motorola and Honeywell, he said, because the Department of Defense wants that. Dr. Prinz has seen the interest and investment in magnetic memory become "fast and furious," a veritable "bee hive."
IBM recently purchased patents from a German concern and Watson researcher Bill Gallagher is leading Big Blue's charge in the area. "Motorola (under Herb Goronkin in Phoenix) has the broadest investigation," he said, and Honeywell continues to make special, extremely durable magnetic memories for its DoD customers, a fact Honeywell researcher Jerry Granley confirmed. Non-Volatile Electronics of Minneapolis, under Jim Daughton, is a commerical spin-off from Honeywell.
GENDLIN HOLDS THE PATENTS
Nevertheless, U.S. patent numbers 5,673,220 (issued Sept. 1997), 5,602,791 (issued Feb. 1997) and 5,390,142 (issued May 1995)-all three entitled "Memory Material and Method for its Manufacture"-list Shimon Gendlin of Jerusalem, Israel, as their inventor and Kappa Numerics of Guiderland, and New York, N.Y., as their holding "agents." (It should be noted that all three are accessible on the Web server that IBM maintains.) From his testimony and a glimp
Anyone else thing the "quantum ram" looks a lot like a CompactFlash card?
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http://atomchip.com/db4/00366/atomchip.com/_uimag
Amongst the awards this company got, is an Oscar: http://www.compu-technics.com/pages/22/index.htm (scroll down).
Head of Atom Chip Corporation is Shimon Gendlin (although one might notice the complete absence of any names, addresses etc. on their web page).
5 years ago, this fellow got a gold medal at the 14th World Genius Convention (http://www.compu-technics.com/pages/18/index.htm) , which, as a side remark, is organized in Tokyo by a company, founded by no one else than Yoshiro Nakamats! The inventor of the floppy disk!! (No, I am not making this up...)
This is as vaporwarish as anything that I've ever seen from Leibermann, Inc.. The only differnce? These guys seem to make even more outrageous claims than Leibermann (but didn't set up a phoney "store"). My question is: what the hell this BS is doing on Slashdot? Are the /. editors trolling us with stories, or did they forget to turn their bullshit story filters on after getting out of bed this morning?
Nothing to see here, move along people.
-Turkey
It'd have to be that fast - look how much crap the dude has running in his system tray.
While it looks like a fake, and smells like a fake, and tastes like a fake, who's paying the bandwidth bill for this fake and why? It doesn't seem like it's suffering at all from the /. effect. Maybe the webserver's running on quantum-optical hardware...
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In case the lameness filter borks the link, the patent number is 5,841,689. You can look it up at www.uspto.gov.
The patent references a "breakthrough" called the "Gendlin Effect". Needless to say, the only references to this ground-breaking discovery are in the company's web pages, and a single forum post on goldenplanetforum.net.
Looks like a very clever scam to me.
http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/5718983.html
http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/5673220.html
Its a fun hoax, brazen enough to be worth laughing at instead of just ignoring.
:)
But what's the motivation? The usual reason is to try and get investment, but it seems too over the top for that. Perhaps they guy is just mentally unstable. Given his "awards" that seems pretty likely.
Possibly he is seeing how far he can push an obviously ridiculous story in the media. Could be an amusing study
For every expert, there is an equal and opposite expert. - Arthur C. Clarke
All three.
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No Seriously,
lol
Almost nobody actually respects the "b" = bits, "B" = Bytes convention. Why do you bother? (Not trying to rant or troll, just curious.)
Furry cows moo and decompress.
Wow this is the worst fake I have ever seen! I created one 10x better in photoshop in like 2 mins.
Jack Shulman and American Computer Co. of the 90's.
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Remember that? He claimed to be making chips from crashed UFO technology..
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http://www.abovetopsecret.com/pages/acc.html
and here's his website where he still claims outrageous bullshit..
http://compamerica.com/about_us.htm
They just took standard laptop components and put their stickers on them!
The memory modules were standard 144pin and 200pin SO-DIMMs and their 2TB storage device was a standard compact flash card plugged into a CF to 44pin PATA IDE adapter for a laptop.
144pin, 200pin DIMM sockets simply aren't fast enough to access all that memory and the buses aren't wide enough to address 1 terabyte.
44pin PATA IDE interfaces have similar limitations.
Not to mention the 3.5mm audio connectors that they converted to "optical" connectors.
Their transceivers appear to be partially made up of silicone glue or something similar.
The clean room pictures are obviously borrowed or fake.
The smell of faeces from this is so strong that I am gagging.
Windows XP doesn't support 1Tb of RAM. The screenshot is not even a good edit. It's even clear where someone has done a cut and paste job.
4 CPUs in this package would require very good liquid cooling. I don't see how the heat would be extracted. Such blatent attention seeking is just sad.
How will such a wonder run a laptop on anything other than cold fusion? Wait!"...with very low consumption of electrical energy..." (known in the scientific circles as "electricity".) Wow, they'll never cease to amaze me.
Atom Chip seems to be a 'brand' of Compu-Technics. However, the address listed for both domains is a residential address. http://maps.google.com/maps?q=21+Reed+Ln.,+11590&s pn=0.007188,0.013393&t=k&hl=en
WHOIS for atomchip.com
How did they fit Wireless A/B/G, Intel ProWireless A/B/G AND Wifi into one laptop?!?!?! It must be awsome! I also love the webcam labeled as an optical processor. They didn't even bother to remove the lense or USB cable (opps, I mean fiberoptic processor bus or whatever).
Thanks for telling us that this was a fake.
Almost nobody actually respects the "b" = bits, "B" = Bytes convention. Why do you bother?
Because it is a unit of measurement and needs to be clarified to make any sense. That's how things work.
My laptop has 10Gb of RAM which sounds like a lot until you realize that it's only 1.25GB which is still a goodly amount but it at least is believable. I could go into discussions about if 1kb is 1024 bits or just 1000 but that would confuse you further.
If I told you that that 10Gb of RAM was all in the space of 182ml/mi, then I have not followed any established measurement conventions and just confused you. This is why we have these conventions and why people should follow them.
I've been expecting this for several years, maybe not in this form, but something along these lines.
I've read the patent, and it looks viable. Here is the link
We'll have to wait for the field tests before we judge.
A big problem with computers has always been moving parts. Moving parts wear out, and hard drives just aren't repairable. They can be recovered for a high price, but if you keep proper backups, there is rarely a need for the expense.
It has always been possible to make a solid-state hard drive, in the form of eprom. The problem with this is that silicon produces a lot of heat, and a chunk of memory the size of a sandwich would probably destroy itself in short order.
If anyone remembers, the first semiconductors were made of germanium, and the transistors just melted at the slightest overheating. So germanium was replaced by silicon, since it didn't self-destruct so readily.
I had always assumed that a new material would have to be found, which didn't produce the high heat that silicon does. I hadn't considered using internal optics before.
If this really works, it should be a happy day for us all. If not, then at least someone is trying.
Michael
Google maps is your friend:
http://tinyurl.com/7avmx
It's a house. From such humble beginnings come great advances in semiconductor technology...
You guys just don't get it. It clearly shows on the first page of their site (http://atomchip.com/) that the Atomic Chip engineers seem to wear their atmospheric suits even in a classroom while working on their cutting edge designs.
Only quantum engineers know that it pays to wear their suits as early as the design process. You guys from the "old chip technology" just don't know that. That's proof to me that the web site is deeply, deeply serious in what it proposes.
The engineer to the right is lead designer, designated by his exposed trouser pants.
defaced.
I don't know if I'd exactly post his phone number, but a good friend (and former boss) worked in the DEA for decades; he was there when it started, as someone starting off his career, and retired several years ago. He's the source. I never said he wasn't real, I said that at first there wasn't an album. And the CMT and wikipedia entries mirror the old commercials, so I tend to wonder about that as well.
For your security, this post has been encrypted with ROT-13, twice.
http://atomchip.uni-hd.de/frameset.php?page=resear ch.php
Actually, yes. It says so right on their page! So it *must* be true!
And you can switch between the two OSes using Voice Command (tm) (pat. pend.) (rx)
You see...
In Soviet Russia, laptop tops you!
Nothing is inexplicable; only unexplained -Tom Baker, Doctor Who
Somehow, I don't believe that if a true quantum processor was built, it would have an x86 instruction set (the data is just too different).
Now, if they're just talking about ultrafine-process chipmaking, say nanotube arrangement or something of the like, I'd say it's plausable. But calling it Quantum, then running windows on it just makes me think "Photoshopped".
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A Beowulf Cluster of these would be interesting.
Your confusion is easy to understand: it was actually Walt Whitman who was a money laundering front for the Russian Mafia.
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I know this is a fake computer, but these are speacs close to those that Bill himself expects computers to reach in 2 years. He also said the OS will waste, I mean take advantage of the newer and faster CPUs and additional RAM. Then again a 3 Ghz CPU with 2 Gigs of RAM is the minimum requirement, Vista will horde I mean require more resources to actually do something. Years later of course Windows 2095 will require a mere 320TB and recommend 640 TB for better performance, because M$ will never find any use for more RAM than 640 TB. It will also have the start menu replaced with an elf hand print icon, which in no parts is a copy of the GNOME foot. It will go nicely with their brand new AQUAL (don't say AQUA Apple may sue) GUI.
I've seen this technology before - These devices are designed around the same principles that are outlined at http://www.timecube.org/ It's about time someone took advantage of this ground-breaking technology...
If it's true, this company and all of its employees deserves the Nobel prize or whatever applies to this field.
If it's fake, this company, especially its marketing people, deserves the Nobel prize or whatever applies to this field.
Please, don't wake me up!
Maybe Computers will never be as intelligent as Humans.
For sure they won't ever become so stupid. [VR-1988]
How about a 24" Telescopic 3D display? Why suppress that technology when you've got it developed? THe rumour is that it was co-developed with the Quantum-Optical non-volatile RAM (NvIOpSRAM-SODIMM 200-pin) chips.
And only a 100MB Ethernet? Come on! I'll sell you the rights for the 10TB ZONP (Zero Overhead Network Protocol) card I've been developing (I have only been able to realize 6.7TB/s throughput, but I've not yet compiled the code for performance, only for code size).
April comes earlier and earlier each year.
These guys went forward in time in their hyper-modified 1983 Delorean hatchback, powered by a 1.21 jigawatt flux capacitor (yes, I said jigawatt), flying at a velocity near the speed of light around the earth, moving time forward (in a superman like fashion) which caused a rip in the space time continuum allowing them to bring back technology from the future...
Incidentally, this may account for the recent fuel shortage.
You see, according to Einstein's special theory of relativity (E=m(c^2)) the closer an object of intrinsic mass comes to reaching the speed of light, the greater the mass of the object being accelerated becomes. And as the object, in this case, the hyper-modified 1983 Delorean hatchback, becomes larger, it's energy needs become larger as well... requiring it to consume more fuel. Hence, $3.29 a gallon.
On a side note, is it just me or does this site looks as if it was designing and maintained by a nine year old autistic kid with Tourette's.
Stop spreading your FUD here. NTFS is a 64 bit filesystem, it supports exabytes or whatever the name for that insanely huge number is, certainly a lot more than 16 TB.
Firstly, How does the CPU dissapate heat when it's not sinked?
And secondly, thanks for the Windows serial number.
As if enough ownage hasn't been dished out against this company, here's a bit more...
http://atomchip.com/_wsn/page3.html - 512GB SODIMM-144, eh?
A 144 pin FP/EDO SODIMM has 8 CAS lines, four RAS lines, 64 data lines and 12 multiplexed CAS/RAS address lines... so, (2^12)^2 * 8CAS * 4RAS * 8 bytes per 64 bits = 4 gigabytes.
Now how about this 1TB SODIMM-200? Lets see. 200 pin SODIMM's have 16 multiplexed address lines, 64 data lines, one RAS and one CAS. Yielding a maximum SODIMM size of (2^16)^2 * 8 = 32 gigabytes.
sheesh, they could have at least bullshitted some sort of new quantum fiber optic microwave memory interface for this stuff...
This must be the sister to the Phantom (think that's what it was) console by Infinitium Labs. (I think. x.x)
I learned more from what is missing from the laptop than if the laptop was an actual product
When we are capable of creating hardware like this, we will not want to put it in a laptop. The reason I say this is because by that time, we'll have the ability to connect into centralized grids from a low-end piece of hardware.
The system properties window is fake, I just found the "processor 6,80 Ghz, 1.00 TB of RAM" was inserted, with a gamma correction check.
Just grab the image with a image editor and add contrast and low the bright. A pattern will easy to see.
No! It is really limited by 2TB Next, AC, show some proof!
After looking at the website with more detail, it looks so fake.... funny... Look at the website and check out their high tech easel. LOL.
While this laptop may be bogus, holographic storage is not:
s ue/dealflow.asp?p=1/
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/07/is
"Simple words such as 'better' or 'faster' are best used by simpletons. Life [...] is more complicated." - TMC
Maybe they noticed the screenshots looked bad, they are gone from that page (but you can still see them e.g. through mirrordot)
This is awesome, they say it will be released with duke nukem forever, a subscription to phantom online gaming,
Now I am going to read other comments, and find out this really is a dell laptop which has been photoshopped, on a troll website.
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According to archive.org http://web.archive.org/web/20031226182902/atomchip .com/_wsn/page3.html
they already had 25G NvIOpSRAMs in late 2003.
Here is the patent that is being referenced in the webpage: Patent Number 5,841,689 Interestingly enough, the owner of the domain is also the owner of the patent....
Can I call you Ass?
There are however some limits. Assuming we need at least a few atoms per bit with nanoscale technology, counting in zettabytes would probably be the near the limit for portable devices. I don't bother making a distinction between primary and secondary storage here, because nobody knows what the future will bring.
Then again, atoms can be excited into several states, and the future might bring storage devices working with this, or even subatomic particles, or various kinds of exotic matter. In that case, it's hard to come up with an educated guess.
I think you've been punked. Twice, if you count being gullible enough to post this to slashdot.
Speaking of which, I just noticed that wikipedia has the wrong definition for the word 'Gullible'?
Heh, make that three times...
Several things strike me as bogus about this.
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#1 The specs say "Weight: 1.9kg(when fully equipped with AtomChip® Quantum® II processor) and 2,20kg(when fully equipped with 4 x Intel® Pentium® M processors"
Meaning that it "supports" quad Pentium Ms. This is bogus, as the chip will not support dual, let alone multi processor SMP.
#2 The quoted spec of "6.8 ghz" seems strikingly similar to "4x1.7Ghz" Pm or 6.8ghz. Hence, again bogus. See falacy #1
#3 the interface for the storage device is labeled on board as "IDEX1," which means that it is an IDE implementation of CF onboard. Max speed is maybe 20MB/s, hardly operable for a "6.8ghz" machine
#4 it has a "Windows XP" sticker, which you can only carry as a VAR if you have done Windows XP certifications.
#5 "PRO/Wireless 2100/2200BG/2915ABG network connection" These are three different chips... pick one, cause you can't pick all three. 2200BG is a centrino chip, meaning that it would nont work with the custom opti-quantum cpu.
#6 whats "Bluetoth"
#7 "welcome to the world of nanomicrons" wtf is a nanomicron, small microns? is that like inch-feet? or something? try taking a class in physics.
#8 http://atomchip.com/db4/00366/atomchip.com/_uimag
That said, I will eat my words gladly if anything of this turns out true. Anyone up for a trip to CES this year?
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They did a bodge photoshop job on a red version of this REAL transmeta based laptop.
... sweet
My name is coaxeus, and I approve this message. In fact, I think it is awesome.
Wow, fantastic news. Anyone who's followed this story knows that after their amazing showing at the Moscow Exhibition President Putin has ordered six examples of the special "InterCosmos" gold-plated edition of the laptop for himself. These puppies come with an ingenious three-way hinge over the electro-capacitors of the optico-laser micron-designator array, offering storage for as many as 25 Balkan Sobranie cigarettes and a gram of Medicinal Powder.
Unique to InterCosmos is the two-way hyperbung next to the Bluetooth docking gate. Made from pure 8UFT5OMD-2.6AO military-grade polystrene and featuring a solild boron screwhead encrusted with industrial-style diamonds, the hyperbung's removal allows as much as 440ml of 120-proof vodka to be stowed as fuel in the event of battery failure. Independent benchmarks using the well-known Symonovksy-Heffer algorithm prove beyond doubt that the InterCoshmosh [stop drinking that battery fluid or you're fired - Ed] can carry enough liquid fuel to maintain the average Russian IT consultant at 100% usage for up to two hours, followed by automatic, clock-chipped sudden-decline sleep mode for nearly a day and a half afterwards.
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It's supposed to take 14 years to get from something in the lab to a product, of course I can't remember where I heard this and have nothing to substantiate this with so you'll have to take my word for it!
In the picture, they used Windows XP Professional, but windows only support 4gb of ram, 128gb of ram with x86 edition, anymore and windows would not know what to do with it, so having 2tb of ram is impossible. and looking at the pictures closely would reveal 100000000 flaws....man...the guy who made the website pisses me off
At this link (http://www.compu-technics.com/pages/25/index.htm) , reached through AtomChip's contact link, they have a product listed as their own which is actually a Flybook (http://flybook.biz/) with the logos crudely covered. Not that they were believable claims anyway, but there's my nail for the coffin.
-mattzog http://www.micromatic.org/
It's akin to having four people each running 10 miles per hour. They cannot reach 40 mph that way; they can only each run 10 mph at the same time. A 6.8 GHz [non-fictional] processor would be at least as fast as four 1.7 GHz CPUs in all cases, but usually will be four times as fast, assuming each CPU did equal work per clock cycle (unlike Pentium 4 vs Pentium M vs Athlon).
~CGameProgrammer( );
It's XP Home and there's a 2TB USB drive connected to the back of the portable (Like a LACIE disk). The AC power's plugged in too. But I don't expect the C: drive is the windows drive. I could almost do this picture myself, but I only have a 1TB drive.
It also features a 12.1 feet screen.
Think of it, you get a brand new 300 GB HDD, bring it home, and install it. When it is formatted and installed, you come to realise that the "300 GB" drive only lets you have a 270 GB partition. It is called a page file kiddies, a drive over a terabyte will have to be at least 20-50 GB, if not more. Also, an "optical processor".... it looks like a chip ripped from a CD drive... what exactly is the point of the lens???
Another thing that I noticed... I do not know how Vista works with the so called terabyte of ram, but last time I checked, just about all OS's only allow a max of 8 GB's of ram...
the system window can be easily manipulated through the registry, and you can throw something together and call it superior.
This would be great if it worked, but something like this would cost WAY to much to even think of making..... why go with something like this for hundreds of thousands of dollars, when you can buy a blade server for a fraction of the cost.... almost infinite upgradeability.
This will be a GREAT TECHNOLOGICAL ACHIVEMENT, hopefully it comes soon,
Jason
Are you absentminded?
Clock cycles don't matter. Computations matter. Since programs are far more sequential than parallel, even two CPUs won't give nearly the benefit a single twice-as-fast CPU would, and four CPUs would see no advantage over two, even if they're equal speed. Of course I'm referring to everuday computer usage, not mathematical or scientific programs designed to be run over large networks.
~CGameProgrammer( );
Does it run Linux? Or at least Doom II?
printf($randomline(sigs.txt) \n "-- "$randomline(authors.txt));
-- myself
Dammit, there's always something!
With all this ultra cool hardware... theres no gigabit ethernet.
Ripped off. I'm not buying one.
You'd think for the price, they could've made it 10/100/1000....
No matter how fast they make them, there's still going to be someone who has to sit on the phone listening to some poor soul drone their way through menu after menu seeking out an answer as to why they are havening problems connecting to the internet.
I don't think slashdotters are actually reading the specs: AtomChip® Quantum® II processor 6.8GHz with 256MB on-board memory It doesn't have over 4 Gigs of RAM it has 256 Megs of RAM, what they are claiming is that they have in essence linked an IDE interface to a Terabyte Compact Flash Disk. Look closely at the pics! I experimented on my own system with a similar idea, putting a USB 2.0 Interface to a 512Mb Compact Flash Disk and using the disk as a page file for windows xp. It WORKS! Its fast, and it probably is the basis of this idea.
Think of it as Vapor-State drives - the chances that one small company that nobody's ever heard of has simultaneously developed a radically new memory technology and also a general-purpose CPU that's significantly faster than Intel's hottest laptop or desktop CPU sounds pretty minimal.
Bill Stewart
New Fast-Compression-only CPR http://preview.tinyurl.com/dy575ks
Also, remember that you really can't compare processors based on raw clock rate - it's like comparing internal combustion engines based on RPM, rather than horsepower/torque/etc. It's quite possible that their 6.8 GHz could be the speed of a DSP, or adding up all the parallel processor elements of a vector processor or something similarly bogus.
On the other hand, because they've developed a magic new vaporware-based memory technology, it may be that 256MB of cache is a perfectly reasonable thing to include in their processor. If *I* were designing a laptop today, using normal technology, I'd almost certainly want to include a gigabyte or two of flash RAM as a disk cache - it lets you install the OS and some of your main applications in it, so you don't need to power rotating machinery most of the time.
Bill Stewart
New Fast-Compression-only CPR http://preview.tinyurl.com/dy575ks
The "Quantum II" emblazoned on the photo of the CPU looks a bit dodgy when you zoom in. The JPG artifacts surrounding the text make me think that they were added to the (already compressed) image of some chunk of alloy. http://atomchip.com/db4/00366/atomchip.com/_uimage s/Processorclosed5.98x5.67.jpg
Mongrel News all the news that fits and froths
http://www.anuslaptops.com/
Look at the bright side: there's always seppuku.
why would anyone use a headphone adapter to connect to a fiber network?
what about heat dissipation - given the voltages you'd need to transmit through metal wires, across a plug with contact resistance, with data at the proposed speeds a shitty fan ain't gonna do much other than melt.
The operating temp range for their solar panel (supposedly for powering memory in satellites) is too narrow. 5 minutes sunlight for a 24 hr charge - work out the size of the solar array and the amount of light hitting it and the stated power usage and you have > 1000% energy efficiency.
Hilarious
when i surfed to atomchip's site yesterday, i got to see some screenshots of the ultramegasystem specs today however these seem to be removed. google cache does still show them. Why were they removed? The russian? The photoshopping? I wonder?
Clearly, this is what happens when someone smuggles a soldering iron and some IEEE journals into an insane asylum.
because this would rock my 10baset.
the best beer is always the local - uncle arnold
... or are those 2TB chips really just CompactFlash cards? Wow... LOTS of BS here.
I am scientifically inaccurate.
Up to that last sentence, I argued why a single CPU cannot execute programs in parallel. A dual-CPU system can, but only in a multithreaded environment where each thread does exactly equal work and no thread depends on the other. Because this never happens except in certain major scientific or mathematical programs, a dual-CPU system does not get double the speed of a single-CPU system, as any benchmark can tell you.
~CGameProgrammer( );
Look closely at the certificate on
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http://www.compu-technics.com/pages/22/index.htm
Then at the awards for 2000's "East-West Euro Intellect" on
http://www.wipo.int/innovation/en/wipo_awards/win
And then tell me, with a straight face, that you still believe this guy.