6.8GHz 1TB RAM and 2TB HDD Laptop? 687
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.
CPU looks like a camera (Score:1, Interesting)
Beware spelling errors (Score:1, Interesting)
Dunno, that HDD looks a lot like a CF card with a fancy sticker on it.
And since when can Windows recognize 1TB of RAM? 2TB happens to be the NTFS limit, so that I can buy, but....
I call shenanigans. But I hope I'm wrong.
Nanomicrons...? (Score:3, Interesting)
Highly dubious (Score:3, Interesting)
The Register [theregister.co.uk] has a link to the company's press release [atomchip.com] with a few pictures. The so-called "Quantum II" processor shown in the "processor compartment" bears a striking resemblance to a mobile Pentium III chip with a heat pipe and fan assembly arranged almost identically to those in Dell laptops. The various
Re:Yeah right (Score:3, Interesting)
doubtful (Score:2, Interesting)
scholar.google.com [google.com]
Re:Time and again... (Score:5, Interesting)
they claim the price will be $4.50 per GB of ram
So... the box as specced will cost nine grand just for the memory?
This must be the system Thomas Watson was speasking of when he was quoted as "seeing a worldwide market for about five" of them (I'm paraphrasing, of course)
Re:Time and again... (Score:3, Interesting)
Ah, but you may still be in the market when I point out this word: lease.
Did no one else notice (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Yeah right (Score:2, Interesting)
Switching to this mode requires that you use a 4 MB page size instead of a 4 KB page... but these days that's not as crazy as it was when we had 32 MB of memory.
If you're more interested in PAE and other higher memory addressing modes, all of this information is available in the IA-32 manual available in PDF form from Intel's web site.
Re:It actually does! (and they have the pictures!) (Score:3, Interesting)
They have a website claiming this since 2002, the guy, creator even has a patent
CES? US Patent? How could he make such a big lie? Why ?
Link to the patent [uspto.gov]
Re:It actually does! (and they have the pictures!) (Score:2, Interesting)