Would you pay USD17,500 for a laptop?

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#6278 12-Jan-2006 12:57

A lot of money but big specs. I have been watching this company for a while and there has been a lot of speculation about whether they are legit. I noticed that they had a booth at CES.

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#26270 12-Jan-2006 15:25

If this was for real it would be in the market and the guys would be making millions...

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#26271 12-Jan-2006 15:51

Did you see their stand at CES?

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#26272 12-Jan-2006 15:54

Nope, couldn't find it - but I read on Engadget or somewhere else that someone actually saw this running - but I don't believe until I see it...

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#26472 14-Jan-2006 23:51

If I had lots of money for a living then yes I would buy it, laugh out loud

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#26473 15-Jan-2006 00:33

patrickstarr: If I had lots of money for a living then yes I would buy it, laugh out loud

I wouldn't waste my money... The specs themselves are very fishy yet alone the fact that we have never heard them before.

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#26487 15-Jan-2006 09:40

looks dodgy

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#27106 25-Jan-2006 12:43

as far as I know the largest hdd you can get is 1 terrabyte, and I doubt that it would be small enough to fit in a laptop.
also 6.8 ghz in a single chip sounds very far-fetched, and the largest laptop hard drive i have heard of is 100 gb, I would say this laptop is a scam

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#27125 25-Jan-2006 14:25

Not a hard drive but 'quantum optical' memory. Thats the thing this laptop is supposed to be based on optical technology.

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#27133 25-Jan-2006 15:06

If it was so powerful and so wonderful, then why hasnt it had more (any) fanfare from anyone but themselves. (Engadget/Geekzone etc etc)

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#27216 26-Jan-2006 08:35

and another thing, if theese guys have built a quantum computer for home or business use then it would be all over the news, not just in some website for geeks and a computer show, we would be seeing tv adverts and everything