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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 forkazoo on Monday February 08 2016, @01:32AM
Lots of people want a a Quad-Core 4.2GHz, 64GB laptop with a 5TB SSD RAID array. Very few people want to pay for it. In this case, you would be paying for it not just in dollars but also in tradeoffs of mass, power consumption, battery life, heat output, bulk, etc. In a few years, that sort of gear will be a downmarket netbook that costs $200 and burns 15 Watts, and a lot more people will consider it reasonable. That's pretty much how computing has always worked. We'll always want something that is faster than is reasonable with today's technology. And tomorrow we'llw ant something faster still. (See also, the form factor of the Macintosh Portable.)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 08 2016, @01:51AM
You have nailed it.
Also that is 'top of the line parts'. Notch it down a couple of levels and you are probably in the 1200-1800 range. Not unreasonable at all.
It is also a quadro part for video. That pretty much adds a couple hundred right there for no reason other than the name. 1000 of that is memory. Drop it to a more reasonable 8-16 and the cost is not as bad.
I quoted out something similar for an MSI/DellAlienware and it was better all around for about 2700 US bucks. All SSD, top vid card, etc, etc... I am thinking Eurocom is overpriced...