The first laptops to make use of the SpursEngine, a multimedia co-processor derived from the Cell chip that powers the PlayStation 3, will go on sale in Japan in July. Toshiba will launch its Qosmio G50 and F40 machines with the chip, which contains four of the "Synergistic Processing Elements" from the Cell Broadband Engine processor. The Cell chip used in the PlayStation 3 has eight of the SPE cores plus a Power PC main processor. The SPE cores perform the heavy number-crunching that makes the console's graphics so stunning.The SpursEngine SE1000 will work in much the same way in the laptops. The operating system will run on an Intel Core 2 Duo chip and the SpursEngine will be called on to handle processor-intensive tasks, such as processing of high-definition video. This arrangement means the laptop should be capable of some tricks that haven't been seen on machines until now.
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Come on, that's bending the truth to a large degree. Also, are they providing the software that's going to be using the spursengine? If someone made handbrake run on a cell derived chip, that would be very useful.
LOL, I also threw up a little in my mouth when I read that.
I'd like to see what this would really do for gaming on this notebook, but i'll admit that the ps3 definately has some good and sometimes stunning graphics.
Did you even read the article?
"The Qosmio G50 is a multimedia laptop and has an 18.4-inch high-definition screen, 500G bytes of hard-disk space, NVidia GeForce 9600M graphics processor, dual digital TV tuners and wireless LAN including 802.11n. It weighs 4.9 kilograms and measures 45 centimeters by 31cms by 4.8cms. Battery life is about 4 hours."
It is a desktop replacement, not something that you can carry around for the sake of mobility. Add to the fact that it has a big ass 18.4 inch screen - what do you expect?
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