Hey I game on a laptop. It has a Geforce 300M GPU. It was, indeed, rather expensive when I bought it. And it is, indeed, a lot less powerful than any desktop I might have purchased for the same money. However, it does run 99% of games nicely, the only exception I can think of being GTA4 which is known to be horribly optimised.Ultratwinkie said:
They've performed quantum computations using absurdly complicated arrangements. They're nowhere near a general purpose quantum computer. They're not even anywhere near computations large enough to be useful. The main catch is that information about the internal state of the device cannot leak into the outside world or the computation is ruined.maxmanrules said:
The other, more significant catch for gaming is that it only speeds up tasks for which an efficient quantum algorithm is known. It's not some magic thing that will give you a million frames per second in Crysis. Useful quantum algorithms rely on manipulating a small dataset in conventionally impossible ways to get an answer that could not be efficiently found with a conventional computer. But current rendering techniques are already quite efficient considering the amount of data involved.
