Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
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.
Toshiba says that the OS will itself run on an
Intel Core 2 Duo chip, while the SpursEngine deals with stuff like
processing high-definition video. In fact, Toshiba is pushing things
like an ability to upscale standard to high def video and perform real
time digital TV to MPEG4 transcoding as good reason to buy into the
supercomputer laptop dream.
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.
David Bass
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