# This can't possibly be a real laptop, can it? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 4, 2005, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-cant-possibly-be-a-real-laptop-can-it/320084 "2005-09-04T19:44:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2005, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-cant-possibly-be-a-real-laptop-can-it/320084/1 "2005-09-04T19:44:07Z")
[Quantum-optical?](http://atomchip.com/_wsn/page4.html) Seems liks quite the load of bull. Maybe. _maybe_ it’s based on possible technology that _might_ be used in the future, and that laptop is a fake, or maybe a ‘mock-up’ of what a real one would look like. It just doesn’t seem possible. Especially since the “drives” look like nothing more than compact flash cards. Can anyone shed some light on this? ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2005, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-cant-possibly-be-a-real-laptop-can-it/320084/2 "2005-09-04T19:49:51Z")
I call bullshit. There’s no way that there’s 2 TB of flash memory there. A 6.x Ghz processor I could imagine, but it wouldn’t run at comparable speeds to a Pentium, or it would overheat and die immediately. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2005, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-cant-possibly-be-a-real-laptop-can-it/320084/3 "2005-09-04T19:52:48Z")
Look at [the industrial products page](http://atomchip.com/_wsn/page3.html). Somebody got a Radio Shack Grab Bag and had some fun. > [@](#): > > NvIOpRAM 24GB [3-pin] Looks like a stereo mini plug. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2005, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-cant-possibly-be-a-real-laptop-can-it/320084/4 "2005-09-04T19:57:44Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > Look at [the industrial products page](http://atomchip.com/_wsn/page3.html). Most of that shit looks like the crappy concept models I built when I was 10. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2005, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-cant-possibly-be-a-real-laptop-can-it/320084/5 "2005-09-04T20:01:44Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > Looks like a stereo mini plug. [See?](http://www.radioshack.com/product.asp?catalog%5Fname=CTLG&product%5Fid=274-869) ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2005, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-cant-possibly-be-a-real-laptop-can-it/320084/6 "2005-09-04T20:01:55Z")
The company is listed as an exhibitor on the CES web site: [http://www.cesweb.org/attendees/directory/rd\_exhibitor\_details.asp?exhibid=7059](http://www.cesweb.org/attendees/directory/rd_exhibitor_details.asp?exhibid=7059) It might be vaporware, but I don’t think it’s a hoax web site. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2005, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-cant-possibly-be-a-real-laptop-can-it/320084/7 "2005-09-04T20:10:14Z")
[Also](http://www.cesweb.org/press/new_products/new_product_detail.asp?prodid=3326) from that site: > [@](#): > > Selling price: $150 per 1GB. Sorry, chief, but the size difference is not enough to make me pay that much for storage when I can get a 500Gb harddrive for [$0.71](http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822147007) per Gb. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2005, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-cant-possibly-be-a-real-laptop-can-it/320084/8 "2005-09-04T20:33:02Z")
> [@scr4](#): > > I don’t think it’s a hoax web site. [Read this](http://atomchip.com/_wsn/page2.html) and tell me you don’t see that it’s a transparent hoax. Everything on the page is pure bunkum. This is a good bit: > [@](#): > > Beam splitter divides a laser beam to reference and object beams. Then spatial light modulator imposes the image of data to be stored onto an object beam, and through a transform lens focuses interference figure (of the image) from object and reference beams onto an area 1µm in diameter in a particular region in the recording media. In order to record information to a recording media an electromagnetic field is formed, which allows to fix the light interference figure (of the image) to be fixed on the focused area. In order to record numerous words onto the same area, the angle where the reference beam crosses the object beam is changed. This is done using the invented ultra-high speed optoelectronic mirror. It’s good enough for a _Star Trek_ script, but it’s a ludicrous hodgepodge of basic holography, unobtanium, and imaginary physics. It doesn’t begin to make any kind of sense. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2005, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-cant-possibly-be-a-real-laptop-can-it/320084/9 "2005-09-04T20:34:56Z")
Can’t possible work. They connected the interocitor to the transtator out of phase. Somebody could get hurt. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2005, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-cant-possibly-be-a-real-laptop-can-it/320084/10 "2005-09-04T20:44:14Z")
> [@Fear Itself](#): > > Can’t possible work. They connected the interocitor to the transtator out of phase. Somebody could get hurt. Just reverse the polarity and everything will be just fine. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2005, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-cant-possibly-be-a-real-laptop-can-it/320084/11 "2005-09-04T20:49:56Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > Just reverse the polarity and everything will be just fine. Yeah, but then your interphasic quadrature grid will be out of alignment. And that, of course, leads to optoelectronic cascade failure during critical state transition periods. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2005, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-cant-possibly-be-a-real-laptop-can-it/320084/12 "2005-09-04T20:55:59Z")
> [@Q.E.D.](#): > > Yeah, but then your interphasic quadrature grid will be out of alignment. And that, of course, leads to optoelectronic cascade failure during critical state transition periods. Damn your logic!! ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2005, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-cant-possibly-be-a-real-laptop-can-it/320084/13 "2005-09-04T20:59:38Z")
> [@Q.E.D.](#): > > Yeah, but then your interphasic quadrature grid will be out of alignment. And that, of course, leads to optoelectronic cascade failure during critical state transition periods. Then you’re fucked. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2005, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-cant-possibly-be-a-real-laptop-can-it/320084/14 "2005-09-04T21:12:39Z")
> [@Q.E.D.](#): > > Yeah, but then your interphasic quadrature grid will be out of alignment. And that, of course, leads to optoelectronic cascade failure during critical state transition periods. Not if you crosslink it to the main deflector dish, where excess plasma can be bled off. Done it a hundred times. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2005, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-cant-possibly-be-a-real-laptop-can-it/320084/15 "2005-09-04T21:16:56Z")
> [@Fear Itself](#): > > Not if you crosslink it to the main deflector dish, where excess plasma can be bled off. :smack: Of course! This also solves the problem of asynchronous crosstalk suppression on the lateral multiplexor bus. ---
**Author:** ![spinky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@spinky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spinky)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2005, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-cant-possibly-be-a-real-laptop-can-it/320084/16 "2005-09-04T21:26:27Z")
I wonder how long it will take [Quantum Corporation](http://www.quantum.com), a large manufacturer of **storage devices** , to jump all over these guys’ asses for having the gall to write "Quantum[sup]TM[/sup] " on their vaporware **storage device**. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2005, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-cant-possibly-be-a-real-laptop-can-it/320084/17 "2005-09-04T21:26:29Z")
I’m curious about this “bluetoth” stuff. Sounds new. > [@](#): > > "Bluetoth, GPRS -with Bluetoth antena. And this “Glare type LCD” > [@](#): > > Display: 12.1” WXGA (1280 x 800, 16:10) TFT Glare Type LCD display Just how much glare _does_ this new technology provide? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2005, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-cant-possibly-be-a-real-laptop-can-it/320084/18 "2005-09-04T21:29:32Z")
> [@astro](#): > > Just how much glare _does_ this new technology provide? If it’s not at least 40 tera-quads, it ain’t worth it. ---
**Author:** ![Scruloose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@Scruloose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scruloose)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2005, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-cant-possibly-be-a-real-laptop-can-it/320084/19 "2005-09-04T21:31:14Z")
> [@astro](#): > > And this “Glare type LCD” > > Just how much glare _does_ this new technology provide? You’ll be blinded. With science. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2005, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-cant-possibly-be-a-real-laptop-can-it/320084/20 "2005-09-04T21:33:22Z")
Also, where’s the “4 way scrolling button” on the > [@](#): > > Synaptics touchpad with 4 way scrolling button All I see are the two generic L+R mouse click keys below the touchpad. The 4 way scroll button must be there… \*somewhere. \* [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-cant-possibly-be-a-real-laptop-can-it/320084.md?page=2)