I call hoax.
I mean really: we're waiting for 25/50 gb next gen DVD drives to hit the market, and microdrives are topping out around 6gb.
Hard drives top out at 300 mbps for SATA II and 320 for Ultra Scsi (and just try actually getting that kind of performance!).
Yet we always get stuff like this, or the 300 gb holographic drive. Remember, it isn't real until you can walk into a store and buy it for cash.
Dvorak's blog discusses this too, without a strong conclusion:
http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=2742
Finally, if I were the Atom Chip Corporation, I'd be really, REALLY worried about the word "Quantum". These guys (
http://www.quantum.com/) might want to have a word with them.
Finally, take a long look at their web site (
http://atomchip.com). This is not the web site of a professional company. Be sure to visit the "European Awards" page and marvel at the very Academy-Award looking statue.
If they really have a 4 Ghz notebook with 500 gb storage, I'm sure PC World would love to get their hands on one and make it a cover story. But I'm sure there's a reason we'll never see that review. From Atom Chip's own web site:
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2. Despite the fast speed of the new RAM and CPU, the overall speed of the computers depended on other slower components mounted on the motherboard of the computers. The real speed of the system is limited by the fact that the operational systems used in SG112C and SG220-2C have slow work speed compared to the capabilities of the new RAM and processor. However, today it is the fastest personal computer on the market!
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I've never laughed so hard. The "operational system" has "slow work speed"???