Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
If you want hardcore gaming performance, but need it in a system that's portable, if not completely lightweight, then Razer's new Blade Pro could be just the ticket. Razer is calling it the "desktop in your laptop," and they the company has a point.
On the inside, the system packs a quad core Skylake processor, an 8GB Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 GPU, 32GB RAM, up to 2TB of NVMe SSD storage in RAID 0, Thunderbolt 3, and a 4K G-Sync capable screen. That's a machine that isn't giving much up in performance to most desktop PCs, so already justifies Razer's strapline... but it's the next thing they did that really makes this a laptop desktop.
The Blade Pro doesn't have the usual membrane keys found in laptops. It has a full mechanical keyboard, with switches—not rubber domes—beneath each key. OK, it's still a laptop, so it's a low profile mechanical keyboard with reduced key travel and chiclet style buttons. But it's a mechanical keyboard nonetheless (Razer also has a similar mechanical mechanism for its iPad Pro keyboard). And of course, being a Razer laptop, it's not just a mechanical keyboard. It's a mechanical keyboard that can be lit up with any color of the rainbow. Alongside it sits a giant touchpad.
[...] There is of course the small matter of the price; it's a little eye-watering. With 512GB of storage, it starts at $3,699/€4,199/£3,499.
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Monday October 24 2016, @03:54AM
Just be glad you're not in the machining industry, where you still need RS-232.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 2, Funny) by ShadowSystems on Monday October 24 2016, @04:05AM
BAH!
You WhipperSnappers & your newfangled ports!
Back in my day we had to arrange amino acids into zeros & ones, prod them with a pseudopod to get them to move where we wanted them, & hope they stayed in order while they went.
We didn't have any fancy ports and that's the way we LIKED it!
*Shakes a palsied tentacle*
Now get off'n my LawnGnome!
=-D
(Score: 4, Funny) by mhajicek on Monday October 24 2016, @04:14AM
Any port in a storm, eh?
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 1) by ShadowSystems on Monday October 24 2016, @04:28AM
*Holds nose & chases after you with a dead fish*
Bad pun! Bad! Hahahahahahaha...
(Score: 2) by linkdude64 on Wednesday October 26 2016, @02:32AM
Ditto for electrical, at least if your facility is using old PLCs.