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Comment Re:Just plain silly (Score 1) 142

by akuma(x86) on Monday February 02, 2009 @04:06PM (#26699569) Attached to: Retailer Planning Laptops With Intel Core i7 Chips

For 5k, you can get a laptop and a desktop.

If you're at your desk, use the desktop. Are you in meetings 8 hours a day?

When I say VNC, I also mean anything like it (remote desktop etc...)

I'm an electrical engineer and we use laptops and we VNC into linux workstations to do very compute intensive things.

Comment Re:Just plain silly (Score 1) 142

by akuma(x86) on Monday February 02, 2009 @07:00AM (#26692657) Attached to: Retailer Planning Laptops With Intel Core i7 Chips

If you need the computational horsepower and portability, why not have a desktop and VNC into it through your laptop?

Submission + - Intel squeezes 1.8 TFlops out of one processor

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jagzjagz

on Monday February 12, 2007 @12:49AM

jagzjagz writes: "It appears as though Intel has been able to squeeze 1.8 TFlops out of one processor, as indicated here: http://www.tgdaily.com/2007/02/11/intel_80_core/ . Intel has been able to make an 80 core research CPU. Where will they go next?"

Feed Intel Details Teraflops Chip (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed on Sunday February 11, 2007 @08:12PM

A new computer chip developed by Intel promises to perform calculations as quickly an entire data center, while consuming as much energy as a light bulb. By the Associated Press.

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