This will be the long-delayed handcrank-powered Apple portable. To run the quad processors, you'll have to crank it constantly to keep it running, so you'll have to type and operate the trackpad with one hand.
<strong>This will be the long-delayed handcrank-powered Apple portable. To run the quad processors, you'll have to crank it constantly to keep it running, so you'll have to type and operate the trackpad with one hand.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Or it could be powered by giant mutant hamsters. Of course the cage assembly would make the TiBook considerably thicker...
No it wouldn't, we can use new genetically engineered thin maleable hamsters based on <a href="http://www.bonsaikitten.com"; target="_blank">this new technology.</a> Analysts predict we'll even be able to double the number of onboard hamsters without significantly increasing case weight or volume.
I know you and I haven't always seen eye to eye but, I have to admit your story is one of the funnier things I've read here. The way Apple has been handling things lately ( the imac aside ) we all need a good laugh. If only it were true! <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />
<strong>No it wouldn't, we can use new genetically engineered thin maleable hamsters based on <a href="http://www.bonsaikitten.com"; target="_blank">this new technology.</a> Analysts predict we'll even be able to double the number of onboard hamsters without significantly increasing case weight or volume.
Man, that guy is warped. The look on the Siamese in the Feline Tensioner is like "Dude, as soon as you're done making your little joke photo, I'm going to scratch you a new a**hole."
Go get 'em kitty.
BTW, wouldn't a quad TiBook that is capable of frying eggs be an explosion hazard if used as intended (on the lap, wearing Nomex of course) after a particularly "beany" meal?
yeah but what if apple takes adavantage of technologies to come. For instance, the clockless processor no mhz!! It uses 1/10th the energy of current chips and is about a hundred times faster. Something like 1500 Gflops Not saying that is what's gonna happen cuz it's quite unlikely but bits and pieces of that tech might just make quad chip portables possible!
before i say anything about this guy or gal and their rumors, i will just say this. a friend of mine has personally held, in his own hands a working dual proc. G4 TiBook. and this was months ago.
dunno if they're anywhere near production, but he was told they were close ages ago, and nothing ever happened. he's never been full of it before, so i have no reason to disbelieve him, but this rumor is possible.
do you mind if i ask what country your source was in?
For instance, the clockless processor no mhz!! It uses 1/10th the energy of current chips and is about a hundred times faster. Something like 1500 Gflops Not saying that is what's gonna happen cuz it's quite unlikely but bits and pieces of that tech might just make quad chip portables possible! [?QUOTE]
People have been trying to get clockless stuff to work on more than a few dozen transistors at a time for almost 25 years, without any great progress. Then some guy comes along and woo's a reporter with promises of glory and mention of a start-up (uh-oh). If it was 1/10th as easy and only 1/2 as good as it was made out to be in that passing article we would already be using them. But it ain't, just like cold fusion and across the board, long term dot-com success. <hr></blockquote>
Great! - Clockless Proccessors and Perfect Compression...
Call me crazy, Maybe I "Think Different"... But I hope this all does pan out!
just like my words here at the "Perfect Compression" Link
[quote]It would be the utmost of arrogance and ignorance too assume that we have conquered what compressionably possible...<hr></blockquote>
will be my responce to this thread too...
It would be the utmost of arrogance and ignorance too assume that we have conquered whats possible... with reference to the present possibilities of proccesssing power...
"good things take time, great things happen suddenly" - Rat Race
note: I know the AI boards sometimes cut up long URLs so here is a the direct site url of the afore mentioned removed links refering to <a href="http://www.ZeoSync.com"; target="_blank">-ZeoSync-</a> still yet to be seen "Perfect Compression"...
<strong>People have been trying to get clockless stuff to work on more than a few dozen transistors at a time for almost 25 years, without any great progress.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Intel supposedly built a Pentium-compatible chip with the technology that was 3 times as fast and used half the power (just a prototype though, not ready for production). The technology is also used in Pentium 4's. That seems good progress to me
The biggest reason that it's breakthrough is taking so long is that the technology wasn't necessary to keep up with Moore's law. A new paradigm has enormous expenses: re-educating engineers, new tools, new factories at 1 billion a piece and spending a lot of money/time before you get a product that you can sell. By the time you can built the superfast Pentium, the old technology may already have passed you by.
But with increasing clock-speeds, the current architecture is getting less and less efficient. Managing the clock-cycles can consume up to 30% of a modern CPU's computing power. And what is very important for embedded use, chips keep using power even when they are idle.
This is the reason why there is a lot of work done on clockless chips for smartcards and cell phones. Read the article for more info:
<strong>No it wouldn't, we can use new genetically engineered thin maleable hamsters based on <a href="http://www.bonsaikitten.com"; target="_blank">this new technology.</a> Analysts predict we'll even be able to double the number of onboard hamsters without significantly increasing case weight or volume.
they shoved a kitten into a G4 cube case. They claim that they were masking the company who made the case, yet the url is /G4 and they mask is in the shape of an apple... disgusting...
they shoved a kitten into a G4 cube case. They claim that they were masking the company who made the case, yet the url is /G4 and they mask is in the shape of an apple... disgusting...</strong><hr></blockquote>
You *DO* realize that entire site is a hoax, right?
You *DO* realize that entire site is a hoax, right?</strong><hr></blockquote>
It is still disgusting, because some freak of nature is actually going to try it. The fact that I became angered (after laughing at the kid sitting on the clear box with a cat in it) just shows how old I'm getting.
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<strong>and after I rolled him a big phattie and got him totally BAKED...
(followed by long, obviously drug-induced severe hallucinations)
</strong><hr></blockquote>
JYD, I think you rolled YOURSELF a big phattie!! <img src="graemlins/smokin.gif" border="0" alt="[Chilling]" />
<strong>This will be the long-delayed handcrank-powered Apple portable. To run the quad processors, you'll have to crank it constantly to keep it running, so you'll have to type and operate the trackpad with one hand.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Or it could be powered by giant mutant hamsters. Of course the cage assembly would make the TiBook considerably thicker...
[ 02-14-2002: Message edited by: Matsu ]</p>
I know you and I haven't always seen eye to eye but, I have to admit your story is one of the funnier things I've read here. The way Apple has been handling things lately ( the imac aside ) we all need a good laugh. If only it were true! <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />
<strong>No it wouldn't, we can use new genetically engineered thin maleable hamsters based on <a href="http://www.bonsaikitten.com"; target="_blank">this new technology.</a> Analysts predict we'll even be able to double the number of onboard hamsters without significantly increasing case weight or volume.
[ 02-14-2002: Message edited by: Matsu ]</strong><hr></blockquote>
Man, that guy is warped. The look on the Siamese in the Feline Tensioner is like "Dude, as soon as you're done making your little joke photo, I'm going to scratch you a new a**hole."
Go get 'em kitty.
BTW, wouldn't a quad TiBook that is capable of frying eggs be an explosion hazard if used as intended (on the lap, wearing Nomex of course) after a particularly "beany" meal?
Thoth2
dunno if they're anywhere near production, but he was told they were close ages ago, and nothing ever happened. he's never been full of it before, so i have no reason to disbelieve him, but this rumor is possible.
do you mind if i ask what country your source was in?
Isn't that rolleyes the most infuriating smily ever created? Anyway, I'll believe (heck I'll buy it) when I see it.
[QUOTE]
For instance, the clockless processor no mhz!! It uses 1/10th the energy of current chips and is about a hundred times faster. Something like 1500 Gflops Not saying that is what's gonna happen cuz it's quite unlikely but bits and pieces of that tech might just make quad chip portables possible! [?QUOTE]
People have been trying to get clockless stuff to work on more than a few dozen transistors at a time for almost 25 years, without any great progress. Then some guy comes along and woo's a reporter with promises of glory and mention of a start-up (uh-oh). If it was 1/10th as easy and only 1/2 as good as it was made out to be in that passing article we would already be using them. But it ain't, just like cold fusion and across the board, long term dot-com success. <hr></blockquote>
Great! - Clockless Proccessors and Perfect Compression...
Call me crazy, Maybe I "Think Different"... But I hope this all does pan out!
just like my words here at the "Perfect Compression" Link
[quote]It would be the utmost of arrogance and ignorance too assume that we have conquered what compressionably possible...<hr></blockquote>
will be my responce to this thread too...
It would be the utmost of arrogance and ignorance too assume that we have conquered whats possible... with reference to the present possibilities of proccesssing power...
"good things take time, great things happen suddenly" - Rat Race
note: I know the AI boards sometimes cut up long URLs so here is a the direct site url of the afore mentioned removed links refering to <a href="http://www.ZeoSync.com"; target="_blank">-ZeoSync-</a> still yet to be seen "Perfect Compression"...
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E PLURIBUS UNIX
[ 02-16-2002: Message edited by: FERRO ]</p>
<strong>People have been trying to get clockless stuff to work on more than a few dozen transistors at a time for almost 25 years, without any great progress.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Intel supposedly built a Pentium-compatible chip with the technology that was 3 times as fast and used half the power (just a prototype though, not ready for production). The technology is also used in Pentium 4's. That seems good progress to me
The biggest reason that it's breakthrough is taking so long is that the technology wasn't necessary to keep up with Moore's law. A new paradigm has enormous expenses: re-educating engineers, new tools, new factories at 1 billion a piece and spending a lot of money/time before you get a product that you can sell. By the time you can built the superfast Pentium, the old technology may already have passed you by.
But with increasing clock-speeds, the current architecture is getting less and less efficient. Managing the clock-cycles can consume up to 30% of a modern CPU's computing power. And what is very important for embedded use, chips keep using power even when they are idle.
This is the reason why there is a lot of work done on clockless chips for smartcards and cell phones. Read the article for more info:
<a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:7SeIIJU1IIsC:www.techreview.com/magazine/oct01/tristramall.asp+&hl=en"; target="_blank">It's Time for Clockless Chips</a>
[ 02-18-2002: Message edited by: wfzelle ]</p>
<strong>No it wouldn't, we can use new genetically engineered thin maleable hamsters based on <a href="http://www.bonsaikitten.com"; target="_blank">this new technology.</a> Analysts predict we'll even be able to double the number of onboard hamsters without significantly increasing case weight or volume.
[ 02-14-2002: Message edited by: Matsu ]</strong><hr></blockquote>
my god! look at this! <a href="http://www.bonsaikitten.com/g4.html"; target="_blank">http://www.bonsaikitten.com/g4.html</a>;
they shoved a kitten into a G4 cube case. They claim that they were masking the company who made the case, yet the url is /G4 and they mask is in the shape of an apple... disgusting...
<img src="graemlins/smokin.gif" border="0" alt="[Chilling]" />
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my god! look at this! <a href="http://www.bonsaikitten.com/g4.html"; target="_blank">http://www.bonsaikitten.com/g4.html</a>;
they shoved a kitten into a G4 cube case. They claim that they were masking the company who made the case, yet the url is /G4 and they mask is in the shape of an apple... disgusting...</strong><hr></blockquote>
You *DO* realize that entire site is a hoax, right?
Although that stuff about x.2 sounded interesting
<strong>
You *DO* realize that entire site is a hoax, right?</strong><hr></blockquote>
It is still disgusting, because some freak of nature is actually going to try it. The fact that I became angered (after laughing at the kid sitting on the clear box with a cat in it) just shows how old I'm getting.
No, you can't actually do that to a cat (our kitten tried to get inside a glass jar, and my friend tried to push it in. Believe me, it won't fit).