The Essessoni Computer: Specs

In 1995, Gordon Moore articulated a principle which became known as Moore's Law. It states: "Over the history of computing hardware, the number of transistors on integrated circuits doubles approximately every two years." However, by 2013, Moore's law was essentially dead as integrated circuit manufacturers hit the physical limits of silicon, electricity, heat dissipation and so on.

In an attempt to increase computing power, the manufacturers started bumping up the number of cores (CPUs) to bring an element of parallel processing to ordinary PCs. However, unless the application you are running is programmed to use parallel processing, all it lets you do is run more tasks simultaneously. AMD has come out with a 6 GHz, 12 core processor and that should help some but they are still limited by physics and the speed of electricity.

In the world of Rome's Revolution, all this changed in 2034 AD when a scientist named Bruce Radnor invented the quantum computer. This type of computational device used quantum effects to move data around nearly at the speed of light. In addition, the quantum changes were not limited to ones and zeros like today's digital computers. Some people equated them to analog computers. Moore's law kicked in again and by the time Rei Bierak took flight aboard the Ark II in 2067 AD, hand-held computers were far more powerful than anything ever dreamed of today. And much more fault-tolerant.

So here are the specs on Rei Bierak's computer:

30 cm (11.8 inch) touchscreen display with a resolution of 4096 x 3072 pixels
Optional laser-projection keyboard
1 PB of solid-state storage
Solid state stereo speakers
Rear and front facing 3D cameras
Gigafi (similar to Wi-fi) networking
Weight: .25 kg (8.8 ounces)
Thorium batteries, never needs recharging
Peripherals attach using inductive interface (no physical contacts)
Quad ZX20 quantum computational cores

As you can imagine, this computer is powerful! Do you have any idea how fast you could play FreeCell on this thing?