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The folks at Eurocom have released another monster 'mobile workstation'
This time around the company's released the Sky X9W complete with a quad-core, eight-thread, Intel Core i7 6700K capable of operating at 4.2GHz and nestled amidst an Intel Z170 Express (Skylake) chipset. The NVIDIA Quadro M5000M dwarfs the CPU for core count: it's got 1,536 of its own.
Pack in 64GB of DDR4-2133, 2400 or 2666 RAM, if you please, then throw in up to four NVME SSDs and give them the RAID 10 treatment for data protection.
There's also a 17.3 inch 4K screen at 3840 x 2160.
[... it also has] a single USB-C port, a pair of mini display ports capable of driving four monitors, an HDMI outlet, five USB 3.0 ports, a pair of RJ45s and Wi-Fi.
Configurations start at $2930 (and weigh in at 4.8 kg / 10.6 lbs — ouch!) , but you can configure it to a price well over $4000.
Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/02/05/eurcom_sky_x9w/
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Sunday February 07 2016, @09:46AM
I can't quite justify spending $3000 or more on a laptop, but I've specced similar machines on other sites. This IS a serious computer, one that I would love to own. Most laptops are just toys in comparison. But, most people use their laptops for frivolous purposes. Browsing the web and playing media don't require a lot of power. I like their use of the term, "Desktop laptops". Yeah, it's portable, but it should have all the power that is normally restricted to desktop workstations.
I never really thought about building a RAID array in a laptop, but if it makes sense in a workstation, then it makes as much sense in your portable machine. Especially if that portable is big and bad enough to replace your stationary machines.
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(Score: 2) by jdavidb on Sunday February 07 2016, @01:14PM
Browsing the web and playing media don't require a lot of power
Unless you open as many tabs as I do. :)
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(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday February 07 2016, @02:57PM
I've found that browser tabs eat memory like candy, but it doesn't consume a lot of other resources. At this moment, Firefox is using 5.31% of my memory, but it only using .90 to 1.25% of processor time, with an occasional spike up to ~2.3%. As I open more tabs, the memory consumption increases rapidly, while processor usage may or may not increase a little bit.
LOL - I just found the flaw in my statement. I opened ten pages in new tabs, and CPU usage increased dramatically. I scrolled through the tabs, and found a stupid Flash video loading. Closed that tab, and CPU usage dropped back down to 1.6% to 2.1%. Yeah, media can consume a great deal of CPU resources, and a lot of web pages contain media.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 07 2016, @10:45PM
With respect to your sig, not that I have a problem with it, indeed I respect all people of faith because they dare to profess it, but the argument doesn't wash. People complain bitterly of cancer because it's in-your-face deadly, but they die of other stuff like obesity etc just as completely, although it's not associated with the same fear. It's all perception. You can be sure that if you sufficiently offend any of those two religious groups they will destroy you, one way or another. Go ahead, die slowly instead of quickly, but you still die.
(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Monday February 08 2016, @06:00AM
I wouldn't really call this a "laptop" as with specs like that the battery life must be calculated in minutes, more of a "portable computer" like those big clunky Osborne and Compaq PCs with built in screens.
I've had a couple customers try to go this route in the past and there is one thing nobody ever seems to realize...these things die quickly and die HARD. The reason why should be obvious, there is no way to dissipate that much heat in that small a package, i don't care how many fans you hook to the bloody thing. One had an alienware he spent nearly 4K on, back when it was alienware and not Dell, and the other bought a custom job from Seattle, Falcon? Both of them were dead less than a year after warranty and both had to be sent back under warranty, once for the alienware, twice for the falcon. in both the boards just cooked, even with big fan coolers mounted under the things when gaming they just got too damned hot!
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