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Toshiba Launches First Cell-based Laptop

Posted by timothy on from the my-laptop-has-been-cell-based-forever dept.

MojoKid writes "On Tuesday, Toshiba launched the Qosmio G55-802, the first laptop available with the Cell CPU. Yes, think PS3 technology, developed jointly by Toshiba, Sony, and IBM. However, in particular, the Cell CPU is not about gaming, but about the multimedia experience. Taking the load away from the Intel CPU, the Cell processor performs gesture control, face navigation, transcoding and upscaling to HD. Interestingly (and necessary, with 4 GB of RAM), the system comes with 64-bit Vista installed by default, but 32-bit Vista ships as an option as well." However, semi-relatedly, if you'd prefer your Cells run open-source code, 1i1' blu3 writes "IBM's put up an open source project downloads page for the Cell processor — APIs, toolkits, IDEs, libraries, algorithms, etc. Most of the stuff on it right now is from SourceForge, but they are asking for user contributions to add to it." (Terra Soft's also been providing a Cell-compatible Linux distro for a while now, and according to Wikipedia the kernel's supported it since version 2.6.16.)

8 of 172 comments (clear)

  1. Yes, but will it run ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Windows XP?

  2. Re:Gesture based and Face navigation.. Sweet! by gdog05 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I think giving it the finger will boot Windows, and rolling your eyes will start Firefox and head to YouTube. Sneezing of course, will run an anti-virus scan.

  3. Re:Not cell-based, cell-assisted by Sockatume · · Score: 5, Funny

    So combined with the comment above that Ben Heck already did a PS3-based laptop, we find that the only accurate words in the headline are "toshiba", "launches", and "laptop".

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  4. Re:Does Terra-Soft pay Slashdot? by mhall119 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, Slashdot has been giving Ubuntu nearly enough coverage!

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  5. Re:Not cell-based, cell-assisted by AeroIllini · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh man I hope the combination of those three words involves a trebuchet.

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  6. Re:18.4" Screen: Laptop? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    So what if I like my laptops like my women.

    Big, burly, and a pain in the ass to go places with.

    (Posted as AC so my wife doesn't know it was me.)

  7. Quosmio by bugs2squash · · Score: 3, Funny

    Esmirelda; the cells, the cells...

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  8. Am I the only one... by vegiVamp · · Score: 1, Funny

    ... who tought this was about fuel cell based laptops ?

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    What a depressingly stupid machine.