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Message started by Oldfeller on 09/10/13 at 04:55:29

Title: Brain Teaser --- what is this thing?
Post by Oldfeller on 09/10/13 at 04:55:29

http://cdn.liliputing.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/seagate-ultra-mobile-hdd.jpg

..... and why is that purty durn amazing to me .....

A clue, it is a very modern offering for a brand new part to go into tablets and cell phones from a market leader you have used in the past.
It also shows that some of the old school guys don't intend to go quietly into the night, but instead intend to fit into the new phone world and prosper.

Title: Re: Brain Teaser --- what is this thing?
Post by HondaLavis on 09/10/13 at 05:02:45

At first I thought it was a phone, but it's a bit better than that.

I won't give away the answer so early. ;)

Title: Re: Brain Teaser --- what is this thing?
Post by Oldfeller on 09/10/13 at 05:07:42

I'd guesstimate it is twice as thick as a credit card and about the same size (except square). Wonder how much $$$ they will cost and how impact resistant they will be ....

Still, folks who say you can't carry a real PC in your pocket just lost a major stumbling point. 500 gig is about what you normally get in a PC.

Statement changes to "You can't carry full sized monitor and keyboard in your pocket ...."

Title: Re: Brain Teaser --- what is this thing?
Post by babyhog on 09/10/13 at 05:25:35

2.5 inch. 5mm thick. 3.3 ounces.

Title: Re: Brain Teaser --- what is this thing?
Post by HondaLavis on 09/10/13 at 06:47:41

I think the problem to carrying a fully capable pc in your pocket will come down to cooling. To have comparable processing power in a tiny package, the board is going to produce a lot of heat. But what do I know? I work on helicopters, not computers. ;D

Title: Re: Brain Teaser --- what is this thing?
Post by Oldfeller on 09/10/13 at 07:56:20

Your heat'em up thoughts are based on 160nm PC trace technology that required 12 volts to run the show. The power supply itself got things pretty hot, and the CPU didn't help matters any since it got as hot as a 40 watt light bulb all by itself.

Now we are at 28nm running at 5 volts, soon to drop to 20 nm and then to 16 nm at which point we can run the show off of 2 volts.

Cell phones get warm, they don't get hot. And as trace gets smaller they still stay only warm, not hot as the computing power goes up and up.

Power sipping and extreme efficency is going to be king again pretty soon, so I don't see these things as being super energy efficent enough for normal phones.

I can see them in a "pc replacing" big tablet thingie though.