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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: 1) by Pax on Sunday February 07 2016, @12:41PM
and DJ's too!!
I went digital to save weight. Now with the software i use (Traktor and PCDJ RED) i can also sync up a video i have prepared with my set.
Hardware wise I use numark mixtrack pro 2
I have a Clevo i7 based laptop as it has the balls to do the job and I can also game while travelling with it. I know I'll have at least another 2 years before I'll need and upgrade. All in all it cost 1197.00 GBP
I know some guys who also hook into lighting systems to that the audio,video and lights are all synced up.
But in general I reckon you are right.. it's a lan gamers/niche application type spec.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by HonestFlames on Sunday February 07 2016, @03:33PM
I was always the "I'll upgrade my desktop" guy.
Except every time it was time to upgrade, there was no damn upgrade path that didn't involve replacing the motherboard and RAM. Oh, and the hard drive interface had gone through another revision... plus there's a new connector for GPU's. So... you can keep the case, keyboard, mouse and monitor but most everything else needs swapping out.
I got real tired of that. OK, this isn't quite as true these days. PCIe has been the thing for GPU's for a while (although nVidia are about to launch something new on that front) and SATA isn't going anywhere... except maybe NVMe is taking over.... so actually maybe this *is* all still true.
Long story short: I ploughed £1800 into a laptop that I then upgraded with 2 SSD's, 1 hybrid drive and some nice RAM. Total probably around £2200.
This was 3 years ago. It's a monster laptop (Clevo, but not Clevo branded) and it doesn't do anything other than behave itself and do what I tell it, which lately is sometimes running Mac OS X in a virtual machine.
I'm just about ready for an upgrade, but I'm holding off until a while after nVidia release their fancy new stuff... i.e. the kind of mobile GPU that can push a 4k display when I want it to or a 1080p gaming experience without the fans trying to deafen me. The 680m in my laptop has (according to GPU Boss) roughly equivalent performance to a desktop 750Ti. Current king-of-hill is the desktop 980 in mobile form - which this Eurocom linked in the article is supposed to have as an option, but doesn't list it in the drop-down.
My all-time, 'do want' laptop would be something Eurocom probably could put together, with Xeon CPU, ECC RAM, a couple of NVMe drives, a 4k IPS display and a GPU to drive it all.