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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 darkfeline on Sunday February 07 2016, @11:12PM
Nah, local computing power and storage will always be useful. I regularly run 1.0 load or higher. A computer exists to do all the hard stuff people can't, and that involves a lot of multitasking. If you don't have all sorts of scripts and programs doing/assisting your work in the background, you aren't using your computer to its fullest.
It also helps that your work doesn't blink out whenever the network connection is flaky.
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