TAG | Toshiba reveals PlayStation 3 powered supercomputer laptop |
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| by Davey Winder | |
| Tuesday, 24 June 2008 | |
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Page 2 of 2 The first machines are likely to go sale exclusively in
Japan in July, at a cost of around AUD $3000. The Qosmio G50 SpursEngine will run at
1.5GHz peaking at 48 Gflops, and needs up to 20 watts of power as well
as some dedicated RDRAM. The thing that is perplexing some tech savvy
observers is why it is needed at all when the G50 will also feature a
NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT with 512MB of DDR3.I suspect early adopters and rich geeks will rush to purchase the 18.4" high def screened machine with its 500GB hard drive and dual digital TV tuners. The rest of us will wait and see what applications can actually make use of all that power, and how long it can last away from the mains socket before splashing the cash. So far we know that DVD MovieFactory will support/ the SpursEngine. We know because it has been seen demonstrating the power on tap in this machine. It took a 3GHz Intel Core 2 Quad CPU twice as long to transcode some 1080p H.264 video to 480p as the machine with the SpursEngine running.
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