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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: 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.
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