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Who Wants a Quad-Core 4.2GHz, 64GB, 5TB SSD RAID 10 … Laptop?

posted by martyb on Sunday February 07 2016, @09:15AM   Printer-friendly
from the prepare-to-drool dept.

Submitted by MrPlow on IRC for Bytram who writes:

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/

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  • (Score: 2) by Tork on Sunday February 07 2016, @09:50AM

    by Tork (3914) on Sunday February 07 2016, @09:50AM (#300138)
    Ugh, I'm not a huge fan of how vague the images of this thing are on the site. It'd be nice to see a picture of somebody holding this thing. If you are in the market for a mobile graphics-heavy workstation, then 'mobile' does still count even if you are interested in specs being high. A friend of mine returned a gaming laptop because the LCD was low-quality and the brick attached to the power cord was bigger than the one that came with the XBOX 360. It was mobile and 'graphics pro' in the same way that Star Wars is science fiction.

    I haven't been laptop shopping in a while, thanks for reminding me of why I hate it with a passion. Oh.. and fun fact: In recent years Quadro has fallen to the wayside as a 'professional graphics line' in favor of actual proper gaming cards, particularly those that handle Direct X 11 well. It's coasting on its reputation. I'm not sure what's available in mobile-land in terms of gaming video cards, but whatever's out there isn't even an option for this machine. The engineering team here is a little out of touch.
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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Sunday February 07 2016, @03:04PM

    by c0lo (156) on Sunday February 07 2016, @03:04PM (#300195) Journal

    It'd be nice to see a picture of somebody holding this thing.

    At 5 kg, that's not a portable computer, it's transportable.

    Possibly, a movie clip could better answer to the question of "for how long can one hold this thing". But, even not quite what you asked, here's a photo [wordpress.com] of what may happen after a short while.

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    • (Score: 2) by Tork on Sunday February 07 2016, @08:21PM

      by Tork (3914) on Sunday February 07 2016, @08:21PM (#300300)
      I meant to get a sense of the size of it, not the weight.
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