This is reminiscent of firing up a steam engine. Its amazing that - TopicsExpress

This is reminiscent of firing up a steam engine. Its amazing that theyve got it down to 5 minutes (and automated the startup procedure), but what they dont mention is that this device has five bits. Theyre qubits, and theoretically capable of amazing things, but - a typical low-end laptop computer has at least a thousand million bytes of working memory, and 500 times that in disk storage. This quantum beastie has five-eighths of one byte.