Affordable? Powerful Yes!

[Melbosa]

http://atomchip.com/_wsn/page4.html

http://www.compu-technics.com/pages/25/

PRESENTING THE WORLD'S FIRST CONSUMER WIRELESS

SUPER NOTEBOOK COMPUTER, THE AtomChip? SG220-2



...



The notebook does not employ a Hard Disk and is completely based on solid state AtomChip? optoelectronics [except the mechanical Optical Drive: DVD Super Multi].



The new non-volatile Quantum-Optical RAM increases the speed of the system, since there is no need to refresh information after every cycle of reading of information, unlike regular RAM.



The new AtomChip? Quantum? II processor with 256MB on-board memory has a high speed with very low consumption of electrical energy.



This notebook has a wireless function, high CPU speed and large memory capacity with extremely low power consumption. Absence of the hard disk increases system stability under low temperatures, vibration and acceleration.



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Processor: 6.8GHZ CPU (AtomChip? Quantum? II processor or 4 x Intel? Pentium? M processors 1.7CHz) / System Compliance: Two Operating Systems with Voice Command (Microsoft? Windows? XP Professional and Linux?) / Memory: 1TB Quantum-Optical non-volatile RAM (NvIOpSRAM-SODIMM 200-pin) / Storage: 2TB non-volatile Quantum RAM (NvIOpRAM-ATA IDE)

[Darren Dirt]

reading some of the site contents.



However my first thought - bad photochop job  :shock: (especially this image)





...and yet, might not be a PC equivalent of the Phantom, check it out:

CES awards page:

http://cesweb.org/attendees/awards/innovations/rd_2005honorees.asp?category=48

Compu-Technics Inc.

Ultra-Portable Wireless NoteBook

Design by: Compu-Technics Inc.

www.atomchip.com

[view product image]

The exquisite unique Ultra-Portable Wireless NoteBook "SG111" to access the world anywhere! This Computer does not employ Hard Disk or any mechanical parts, and is completely based on AtomChip optoelectronics.

[Lazybones]

Great if true but fishy. Why would you offer 2TB solutions in a laptop as the big product when your product would be so attractive to the high end workstation market.

[Shayne]

For such an uber machine thats the most brutal website every created.



I also think the CPU is really...wrong.  So its 4xPentiumM, so Intel allowed them to cut the chips from their mounting platform to be custom built this way?  I dont think so.



Another thing is that WindowsXP Pro only supports 2GB of memory, not 1 TB.

[Melbosa]

Actually Cova might be able to show you a PentiumM running in a regular case, that out performs Pentium EEs, or so he was telling me over lunch one day.

[Melbosa]

Great if true but fishy. Why would you offer 2TB solutions in a laptop as the big product when your product would be so attractive to the high end workstation market.

Yeah was saying the same thing to Cova over lunch today.

[Cova]

The whole atomchip thing is almost certainly vaporware.  I bet the phantom console won an award or two in its initial years before everyone figured out it would never come to market too.  The website is brutal, the images are almost certainly photochops.  All the images of hardware are just large stickers covering ... everything.  The only one they show something of is the CPU (I'm assuming they mean its as fast as 4 Penium M's, not made from 4 of 'em), which I can tell by looking at isn't a CPU and isn't capable of much if anything.  I'm also unable to find out anything about them searching google - no independant coverage/reviews at all.



As for the Mel's post - the Penium M does have very good IPC, which is why Intel is using it as the basis for all of its new processors in 2006 (good article about the upcoming architecture here: http://techreport.com/etc/2005q3/idf/index.x?pg=1) - the new chip looks like it will have a very high performance/clock speed and might finally give the Athlon64 some competition.  The article benchmarking the Penium M on a desktop board is here:  http://techreport.com/reviews/2005q1/dfi-855gme-mgf/index.x?pg=1   I also came across a different one a while ago that I can't find now that ran the Penium M using an adapter board on a Intel 875 northbridge based board (which gave it a dual-channel RAM controller) and performance was even better.

[Lazybones]

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2382



Pentium M adapters where announced from Asus a while ago.

[Darren Dirt]

...along the same lines of probable-vapourware-but-dammit-I-hope-not...



Linux Laptop for $100.00! http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/29/129235

"The AC adapter acts as the carrying strap, and there is a hand crank so if you can't find a source of electricity you can charge it kinetically" (!)