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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: 1) by mechanicjay on Sunday February 07 2016, @04:55PM

    by mechanicjay (7) <reversethis-{gro ... a} {yajcinahcem}> on Sunday February 07 2016, @04:55PM (#300242) Homepage Journal

    My primary 'desktop' at home is a Lenovo Thinkpad T400 running Gentoo. I had to swap out the wireless card because when I ordered the laptop I foolishly spec'ed the wrong card which was iffy with linux drivers. This things sits on a docking station most of the time.

    The computer I take places with me is a Lenovo Thinkpad X61 Tablet running OpenSuse 13.2 (Haven't yet upgraded it to 42.1) It's very light, convertible pen tablet. It's a little bit limited since it maxes out at 4GB of memory and I've been wanting for a bit more than the 2.5Ghz Core2 Duo. All the tablet stuff works, which is great.

    I don't know what the current crop of Thinkpads are like, but they historically run *great* with Linux, the situation may have changed in the last few years though. That said, were I in the market for a brand new machine, I'd consider System76, since I can't justify the $5000 for one of the beasts in TFA.

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    My VMS box beat up your Windows box.