Get a grip, man, it's satire. Dude, have you friggin' heard of it?
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The Official "waiting for quantum computing to replace silicon" Thread
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Get a grip, man, it's satire. Dude, have you friggin' heard of it?
(Apologies to Fake Steve Jobs)
The Mac Proton will launch in the refurb store!
Prices will be the same as all countries will have standardised on the Greek Drachma.
Using pioneering quantum technology, bucking the trend of other computers, the Mac Proton will actually get faster as it gets older
...the Mac Proton will actually get faster as it gets older
Which, thanks to the Registry, is the exact opposite of Windows computers today!
All I know is, I'm specing my with a 3.2Phz processor and a 1YB 1.8" drive. That baby'll scream.
(petahertz and yottabyte, for those who don't have their SI prefixes memorized)
The sad truth is that so far computers have never screamed, they have never been lightning fast rocket engines and supercomputers that we've wished for. Even the newest 8-core Mac Pro doesn't run MS Office 2008 lightning fast. Ten years ago we could only have dreamed of an 8-core 3.0 GHz Mac with 8 GB memory and 1TB hard drive, but now that it's here the reality is quite mixed.
Tasks that can be subdivided into independent chunks and processed in parallel fare quite well, but many day-to-day apps certainly don't "scream," such as Office 2008.
As computers get more powerful, the software that runs on them gets more complex such that the divide between raw horsepower and the computational demands placed on that horsepower never really runs away.
True quantum computing of the type fancifully proposed by Michael Crichton's Timeline really has the potential to create a truly immense gap between raw horsepower and the demands placed upon it, such that any conceivable task to be performed would complete in near-zero time.
Which begs the question: if a company could produce a consumer quantum computer at a reasonable price, why would said company ever do it -- knowing that said consumer would basically never need to upgrade their computer during their lifetime.
...but it sure would be nice to have a computer so fast you could render Shrek V (including cut scenes and extras) in a picosecond.
This might seem to be an example of capitalism being at odds with pure scientific progress, but if we were able to build such a thing and sell it only once to each person, it would earn its manufacturer a considerable amount of one-time revenue which they would invest in other sectors, some of which would have renewable product strategies and some would not.