Rumors persist about the Dell Adamo, Dell’s answer to Apple’s MacBook Air laptop. The MacBook Air is an ultra thin, ultra light laptop introduced in early 2008. The Adamo name is not confirmed, but The New York Times confirms that Dell is developing a laptop to compete with the MacBook Air. betanews.com also uncovered a listing for Adamo accessories and putting two-and-two together, indicate that the planned laptop is the Adamo.
“It’s a very souped-up Playstation 3,” or at least that’s what David Turek, vice president of IBM’s supercomputing programs, said about his company’s newest baby, The Roadrunner. “We took the basic chip design [of a PS3] and advanced its capability,” said Turek, speaking about the computer’s use of a modified version of the PS3’s lauded “Cell” microprocessor.
Roadrunner is effectively twice as fast as IBM’s last record breaker, the Blue Gene.
Sadly, the Roadrunner won’t ever be used for the noble pursuit of gaming; instead, Roadrunner will be relegated to mundane tasks such as simulating nuclear explosions and mimicking the human brain. Yawn.
