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witness

macrumors 6502
Apr 7, 2005
435
0
Austria
This is a hoax, just look at the pictures of the 3.5mm audio jack that is supposed to be the memory store.

I'm just surprised that so many news sites seem to be reporting this.
 

Lord Blackadder

macrumors P6
May 7, 2004
15,662
5,496
Sod off
Oh, for pete's sake...this is one of the clumsiest hoaxes ever. We're obviously experiencing a news media "slow day"...

:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

and :rolleyes: for good measure.
 

gekko513

macrumors 603
Original poster
Oct 16, 2003
6,301
1
Me and my colleague just looked around at the "evidence" that could make this plausible. There is a patent from 1996 for quantum optical storage filed by the guy and the company has booked a booth at the CES in January.

However, from some of the other stuff, like that component page, it is clear that this must be a hoax. It's kind of fun, though.
 

dmw007

macrumors G4
May 26, 2005
10,635
0
Working for MI-6
Definitely a hoax.

I like how you can order it with four 1.7GHz Intel Penitum M's if you dont want the standard Quantum II CPU- right! :rolleyes:

The article was good for laugh though. :D
 

Mord

macrumors G4
Aug 24, 2003
10,091
23
UK
what the hell type of company would make a 6.8GHz quantum laptop and run windows on it, tis total BS.
 

dmw007

macrumors G4
May 26, 2005
10,635
0
Working for MI-6
Hector said:
what the hell type of company would make a 6.8GHz quantum laptop and run windows on it, tis total BS.

True. Why make such a serious piece of machinery and then install a piece of s**t OS on it? Makes no sense!
 

javabear90

macrumors 6502a
Dec 7, 2003
512
0
Houston, TX
seeing is how there is no way in hell that widows 32bit could support 1TB of ram.... Ya... I still don't understand how this got on /. geez.
 

dubbz

macrumors 68020
Sep 3, 2003
2,284
0
Alta, Norway
javabear90 said:
seeing is how there is no way in hell that widows 32bit could support 1TB of ram.... Ya... I still don't understand how this got on /. geez.

Everything gets on Slashdot :rolleyes:
 

kalisphoenix

macrumors 65816
Jul 26, 2005
1,231
1
:p I hate it when they make hoaxes completely unbelievable.

A laptop with a normal LCD, a 2GHz Pentium and a 40GB solid state hard drive with an OLED keyboard and 8 hours battery life would have half the geeks in the world drooling... and at least might be able to suspend disbelief a bit.
 

dmw007

macrumors G4
May 26, 2005
10,635
0
Working for MI-6
kalisphoenix said:
:p I hate it when they make hoaxes completely unbelievable.

A laptop with a normal LCD, a 2GHz Pentium and a 40GB solid state hard drive with an OLED keyboard and 8 hours battery life would have half the geeks in the world drooling... and at least might be able to suspend disbelief a bit.

Yes, that would have been a better distortion of the truth. ;) :)
 

superbovine

macrumors 68030
Nov 7, 2003
2,872
0
dmw007 said:
I would not even trust Windows w/ 64GB of RAM. :eek: ;)
Just think of how many viruses it could store in there. :eek:

i think it would surprise what windows servers actually have that memory and what they run...then a worms hits and people take a dump.
 

neocell

macrumors 65816
May 23, 2005
1,073
2
Great White North
These guys have been making outrageous claims for years, and it's always "coming soon". I'll believe it when I see it. I remember seeing something about an 64GB SD card from them at a howstuffworks review of CES last year I think. Anyways, crap, crap, crap
 

dmw007

macrumors G4
May 26, 2005
10,635
0
Working for MI-6
neocell said:
These guys have been making outrageous claims for years, and it's always "coming soon". I'll believe it when I see it. I remember seeing something about an 64GB SD card from them at a howstuffworks review of CES last year I think. Anyways, crap, crap, crap

64GB SD Card? Ya, these guys are real credible. :rolleyes:
 
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