Toshiba Launches First Cell-based Laptop

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.)

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You Dirty Man.

[Anonymous Coward]

How dare you mention Vista in polite company?

Debian does well with any old P3. This thing is going to go critical and melt it's way to China. Don't laugh too hard, given a bad enough design it can happen to your lap. That's what it looks like when the Russian botnets take all nine of your processors.

wow....

[dedazo]

twitter, you're down to shilling your own posts with AC comments?

Don't you have any self-esteem left at all?