Macbook pro

[Derick Centeno]

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 <aguilarojo at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Is there a link to this laptop or other online reference to it which
> you saw?  I'd appreciate whatever you have...
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> Thanks...
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> On Feb 8, 2008, at 4:36 AM, Edward Montfoort wrote:
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> >
> > ...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 :)...)
> >
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