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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.
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"
...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.
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Cuz, it looks like people are getting fooled.
Start Running Better Polls
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.
Actually, power usage for this laptop, according to spec, is very low.
... and the battery back is a 6-cell Li unit.
"Battery Life: Approximately 8 hours for AtomChip® Quantum® II processor"
OTOH, I suspect that the true power usage for this laptop will be zero.
Seeing as vaporware doesn't actually draw any current.
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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!
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Another proof - look at this image. See where it says "1,99 TB"? Look carefully at the position of those 9's as compared to the 1.
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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
Seeing that the the other specs are buzzwords really, I doubt it has 1TB of ram. It's probably some trade marked word they made up. For example, it says 6.8 ghz atomchip processor. But then you find out this is there word for 4x1.7ghz pentium ms. They use the word "or" to mean "in other words" here. Of course must of us know this really isn't equivilent to having one 6.8 ghz chip, though it should be fast. Also, it appears that there is no quantum technology in the ram. That's just a trademarked term for there implementation of flash memory.
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.
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!
Even better, look at the *SHAPE* of the 9's in 1,99 versus the 9 in the disk capacity.
Definite Photoshop.
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> In other words a system with four processors running at 1.7GHz aren't going to deliver 6.8GHz of processing ability.
processing ability isn't measured in Hz (the unit of cycles per second), the rate at which a small group of transistors and capacitors will wiggle at is measured in Hz. Since modern CPUs have several clocks, the Hz for a single CPU is just as made up as that for a group of four CPUs.
6.8GHz is as real as 1.7 GHz and just as uninteresting.
When they say "clockless" I might pay attention.
Then you'd have to wake up first!