Hi Rob:I thought the video/demo was neat also. However, if you read the article associated with the video you'll notice that it is more of a prototype than anything else. Meaning that it will probably never be released in that form, which is just as well as the Toshiba design appears to use the Cell as a video processor. I'd like it to do more than that and I'd like the freedom to pursue exploring what that may be.
Of course, I could be wrong. Maybe Linux will be allowed access to the Cell so that it can process more than just video output. However, I'm not sure why Toshiba chose to halve the available SPEs to 4 when they could have had all 8 and the ninth as well as the current Cell design within the PS3 contains. Cost, maybe?
Perhaps. The article suggests that the cost of the prototype as is, would be quite high.
We'll all have to just wait and see. Still it is exciting that someone is considering bringing the Cell (in some form) into a laptop design.
All the best... On Feb 10, 2008, at 6:40 AM, Robert Stevenson Neasham wrote:
WoW! When does it release? But it is still going to run Windows Vista? Or are you going to replace it?Robert S. Neasham, Jr. On 2/9/08, Derick Centeno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Ed: Is there a link to this laptop or other online reference to it which you saw? I'd appreciate whatever you have... Thanks... On Feb 8, 2008, at 4:36 AM, Edward Montfoort wrote: > > ...Today when searching for more info on the Cell processor and PS3 > I came across a news about Toshiba saying they were at CES 2008 and > presented a Qosmio G4 with a Intel Core 2 Duo CPU in addition to a > Cell chip with four 1.5GHz SPE's. This is one kiss ass laptop and > with the cell processor it would be more than welcome to my > clustering. (This part was just a sigh, never mind :)...) > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) iD8DBQFHrXgmsfbwCDodg+ARAqv2AJ49cOwrHaGdP7XrY5jcqjaQuaED5wCgtiHf BHGnYGV9VB+n05uXq4fAfOQ= =6cut -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ yellowdog-newbie mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-newbie -- Mr.Robert S. Neasham, Jr. _______________________________________________ yellowdog-newbie mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-newbie
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