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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 Hairyfeet on Monday February 08 2016, @06:00AM
I wouldn't really call this a "laptop" as with specs like that the battery life must be calculated in minutes, more of a "portable computer" like those big clunky Osborne and Compaq PCs with built in screens.
I've had a couple customers try to go this route in the past and there is one thing nobody ever seems to realize...these things die quickly and die HARD. The reason why should be obvious, there is no way to dissipate that much heat in that small a package, i don't care how many fans you hook to the bloody thing. One had an alienware he spent nearly 4K on, back when it was alienware and not Dell, and the other bought a custom job from Seattle, Falcon? Both of them were dead less than a year after warranty and both had to be sent back under warranty, once for the alienware, twice for the falcon. in both the boards just cooked, even with big fan coolers mounted under the things when gaming they just got too damned hot!
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