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Geek Culture / 6.8GHz 1TB RAM and 2TB HDD Laptop?

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JoelJ
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Slashdot article:
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.

and if you click on the link to their webpage you get a very unprofessional webpage.
I'm personally on a res of 1280x1024 which is probably the right size for most computer junkies, but i've noticed a lot of home users step it down to a smaller res, anyway, on my res i get horizontal scrolling because of the sizes of the images, that's no good, and it would've been REALLY easy to avoid that situation (better placement of images)

there was also an image of the System Properties that appears to be taken from a digital camera or is just a really bad quality of a picture.
The system is running XP Pro SP2, shows the info just like it should, blah blah blah.
then they have the wonderful "Manufactored and Supported by" thingy...the ATOMCHIP logo appears to be copy and pasted in, it COULD be by the antialiasing(sp?) from the jpg, but who knows.
also:
my friend's dad's computer has a 1tb drive (i actually think it's 2 or 3 stripped hdd and they add up to be over 1tb) and it doesnt say: 1.X TB Capacity like it does on one of their images it says 1XXX GB (not sure exactly how many more GB more than 1000 it is, hense the X's) of free space maybe because it's not more than 1tb like on the site, but you never know...
anyway, i'm asking you guys if you think this is real? or do you think it's something like this fancy keyboard and only have pretty pictures and nothing physical to show for it?

i personally think it's fake (6.8ghz? bull) but you never know!


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Posted: 7th Sep 2005 21:59
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No one will buy that.

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yeah! people all the time are making chips twice as good as the industry leaders in their basements (not) I stopped buying PC hardware since I found you can make a kickass PC from milk bottle tops and cardboard, if anybody wants a 50thz cpu, 40tbyte ram pc with raid 40hepabyte drives and realtime raytraced gfx with full physics then just send me £1000 and the next time I finish a packet of cornflakes I will make you one.



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Quote: "yeah! people all the time are making chips twice as good as the industry leaders in their basements (not) I stopped buying PC hardware since I found you can make a kickass PC from milk bottle tops and cardboard, if anybody wants a 50thz cpu, 40tbyte ram pc with raid 40hepabyte drives and realtime raytraced gfx with full physics then just send me £1000 and the next time I finish a packet of cornflakes I will make you one.
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hahaha i make mine outta lint from my pockets....takes a really long time though =\

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Posted: 7th Sep 2005 22:22
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have you seen the computers you can knit and wear them as sweaters?
my grandma was telling me about them the other day.


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Posted: 7th Sep 2005 22:23
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Have a 1.25TB Raid Array here, much easier than having several partitions and such. Oddly quicker despite the regular speed not being much faster than a standard ATA-133.

As far as the processor goes, there is no way that is a single chip. There is a barrier that both AMD and Intel have hit.

The issue doesn't stem from the cooling either, it sems directly from the power leaking. Faster you push something the more power is leaked.

This is why they create smaller fabrications, the smaller the prefab and the less is lost with the more physical speed pumped through.

.13 for example has a physical limit of 2.5GHz
.11 however has a physical limit of 3.0GHz
.9 pushes that to 3.8-4.0GHz (not entirely sure)

More over different processor design react to speed differently.
For example the PPC 4xx Series with it's .13 is only physically capable of 1.5GHz, while the PPC 9xx with it's .11 is physically capable of 2.5GHz

So you see there's a bit of a loss over the x86 to PPC designs.
This said AMD have clearly shown that physical speed means bugger all.

AMD Athlon 1.8GHz is capable of running just as quickly as the Intel Pentium 4 2.5GHz (provided it isn't using SSE2)

As for the RAM/HDD design, while IBM have been working on that technology for a while; I've only seen a single working version. 40GB Optical Ram.. was impressive with it's size but overall ended up slower to access because of the size.

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ooh! nanomicrons rofl, badly photoshopped laptop screen roflmao, that quantum processor looks just like a 1/2" micro hardrive like they are putting in the newer 4gig MP3 players apart from that badly photoshopped "quantum processor" legend, did you know the theoretical designs for quantum architecture run at cryogenic temperatures to prevent thermal noise drowning out the states returned by the device?, or that the worlds first attempted quantum device was a simple logic circuit and it failed to work, and thats state of the art, or that film ribbon cable is not the way to get signals into or out of a cpu?

thats so stupid it`s silly, and most of the rest of the description is contradictory gobbledygook, theres another firm on the net does something about the same thing, they have been going to release their superchips "soon" for the last ten or fifteen years, they claim to have got the technology from flying saucer components they got from area 51, roflmao.



the average IQ is 100...but the people that took the test where trying to look smart. most people don`t go over 50.
Area 51?, I`m more intrested in what they have in areas 1 to 50
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Hey everybody, let's play the little game of "spot the flaws"!

Quote: "Processor: 6.8GHZ CPU (AtomChip® Quantum® II processor or 4 x Intel® Pentium® M processors 1.7CHz)"

It looks like the 32bit Pentium processor can now address 1 TB of RAM rather than the usual 4Gb. I wonder how they pulled that off...
Also, why do they keep saying 1.7Chz instead of Ghz???

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In 50 years time that'll be the specs for a bog standard calculator!

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Posted: 7th Sep 2005 23:48 Edited at: 8th Sep 2005 00:03
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umm.... wont optical involatile ram make it easire for cops to recover nfo from your pc since the data remains after you use it? i mean who would use 1 tb of ram? i mean, stuff is bound to be left in there, and based on the dodgy way windows allocates memory, something fishy is bound to be left in plain sight

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I find it a bit unlikely that you would ever have 1TB of RAM while only a 2TB HD.

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Quote: "This is why they create smaller fabrications, the smaller the prefab and the less is lost with the more physical speed pumped through.
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i believe they are claiming using fibor optics for this.

and the image of the laptop COULD be "photoshopped", but i dont think it is, it could be a full screen picture of the photoshopped desktop, you can do that in paint (ctr-f)

i just think it's funny that this is on slashdot...i should read what other slashdot readers are thinking...


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Posted: 8th Sep 2005 00:42
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aparently:
the whole site is a hoax


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Posted: 8th Sep 2005 01:43
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is that keyboard ready cause i alloted cash out of my stash when i saw it but figured later that it was a prank

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It's too bad this doesn't come with a flux capacitor expansion slot.

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Quote: "i mean who would use 1 tb of ram?"


ram drive baby!

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Posted: 8th Sep 2005 10:47 Edited at: 8th Sep 2005 11:34
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rofl @Joel...you had to check to make sure of that?, would you like to buy a alchemy machine? makes scrap metal into gold...only £10000 to you (special discount).



oh! and optical lenses?, perleaaase ,I hardly think they are gonna use gravitational lenses (look em up), they just overdid it, if they had stuck to something more sensible then it would have been credible.

http://www.compu-technics.com/pages/22/index.htm
http://www.compu-technics.com/pages/18/index.htm
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=161415&cid=13499840
http://osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=11784

sounds like a kiddy with a rampant ego and the imagination to match :

Quote: "It's too bad this doesn't come with a flux capacitor expansion slot"


maybe it does...follow his link to the CES honorees section and then look at the page properties...written in 2006??? yeah!, he must be that time traveling stockbroker the police wanted for insider tradeing , plus the image he links from is not anything to do with this atomchip PC (and badly photoshopped again), its the award winner from another maker, and for an encore...spot anything familar on this page?.

http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/

the average IQ is 100...but the people that took the test where trying to look smart. most people don`t go over 50.
Area 51?, I`m more intrested in what they have in areas 1 to 50
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On the subject of amazing processing power, here's something off Wikipedia:
Quote: "In some comparisons between the brain and computers, the following calculation is made: There are billions of neurons in the human brain; estimates differ and there are individual differences, some suggest about 2×10^12 neurons. Since the relaxation time of these neurons is about 10 ms, this could amount to a processing speed of 100 Hz. The whole brain could therefore have a processing power of roughly 2×10^14 logical operations per second. To compare, a 64-bit PowerPC 970 processor at a frequency of 3 GHz corresponds to 2×10^11 logical operations per second. But mind that the neuron can have more than 1000 connections thus has at least 1000-bit processing instead of 64-bit. So it can process roughly 5.8*10^32 more information (2×10^1000 / 2×10^64), making the brain roughly 5.8×10^35 as powerful as a current high-end consumer PC. However, this comparison is extremely speculative. The working of biological neural networks is not well understood; it is not clear that anything like the "logical operations" performed by a computer actually occur in biological neural networks."


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That didn't make sense till i realised it was using exponential

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Quote: " That didn't make sense till i realised it was using exponential "

It makes more sense than that sentence.

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shhh i couldn't be bothered to make sense

he had 2x1012 where it is now 2x10^12, the exponential or something (x10 to the power of)

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