IBM New Chip for Notebooks

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  1. Coroner

    Coroner What's a Dremel?

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    "Two new models of ThinkPad notebook computers, unveiled this week by IBM Corp., come with a chip that can detect when the laptop is accelerating — such as when it has been accidentally nudged off a table and is plunging to the floor.

    If the hard drive happens to be reading or writing data at the time, the chip tells the drive to temporarily stop. Hard drives are at their most vulnerable when reading and writing data, so IBM believes the crash-protection chip will help guard against such losses of important information.

    The crash chips are found in IBM's new ThinkPad R50 and T41 models, which start at $1,529 and $1,649 respectively." -- AP



    Could be slick but just how fast will they respond?
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  2. Shepps

    Shepps Slacking off since 1986..

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    sounds pretty good, if it works. But if you drop a laptop, it tends to get pretty shagged anyway in my experience..
     
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  3. Krikkit

    Krikkit All glory to the hypnotoad! Super Moderator

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    But hopefully, this will stop the hard drive from being destroyed and all data lost - the non-operating and non-reading shock that hard drives can take is immense, compared to the operating shock which isn't so great...

    Another fine idea from IBM :D



    edit: welcome to the forums!
     
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  4. sinizterguy

    sinizterguy Dark & Sinizter

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    Damn, I was expecting a new CPU or something ... :sigh:
     
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  5. Death Company

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    Lol that what I was expecting as well. Any way rhis seems like an interesting concept. Hope it works for all you notebook owners out there.
     
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