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6.8GHz 1TB RAM and 2TB HDD Laptop?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the get-me-on-the-review-list-for-those dept.

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.

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  1. Time and again... by devaldez · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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...

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  2. The sound you just heard... by Rude+Turnip · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...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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  3. A fraud, according to the OSNews community. by CyricZ · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

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    1. Re:A fraud, according to the OSNews community. by Surt · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Well, if nothing else gives it away, how about the image of the stereo connector with a bunch of labels on it describing the optical components and the massive memory it contains:

      http://atomchip.com/_wsn/page3.html
      particularly:
      http://atomchip.com/db4/00366/atomchip.com/_uimage s/256Mx6M.jpg

      Now, supposing you're a super genius engineer, who has come up with all this clever technology advancement which no one else has been able to think of. Do you:
      a) design a nice new physical interface for it?
      b) make it 100% physically compatible with devices it is not meant to be plugged into so that it can be easily accidentally damaged?

      This site is a pretty thoroughly obvious fake. In fact, you pretty much have to assume that the fakers are intentionally leaving it sufficiently fake to avoid tricking anyone even slightly technologically inclined, and that it is in fact only targetted at trolling news media morons and slashdot editors.

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  4. Re:Power by Red+Flayer · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Actually, power usage for this laptop, according to spec, is very low.

    "Battery Life: Approximately 8 hours for AtomChip® Quantum® II processor" ... and the battery back is a 6-cell Li unit.

    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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  5. Very misleading... by lar3ry · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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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  6. Re:Yeah right by buttersnout · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.