What are your favorite insane laptops?
Mine is the Dell Rugged: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F56ION4_n0
Bump and fall proof, liquid proof, sand proof (and cat hairs proof I assume), extreme heat/cold proof, can be used as a blunt weapon in an emergency. Ridiculously overkill for anyone that’s not a geologist working in Antarctica or an archaeologist in the Gobi desert, and ridiculously overkill is fun
the design is insane, the people behind it are insane, the story is double-insane.
yea and then you install windows on it
Let summon BOSS: Expanscape Aurora 7
Why hasn’t Oracle made that
i could definitely use something like this when i take a shit
OMG I must have it.
I would like to argue but I can’t… you win 😅 That’s just… I don’t have words. Just wow 🤯 🤯 🤯
Every Macbook Air in the coffeeshop crashes out of sheer terror and awe when you unfold that nerdstation.
Impractical. Why would anyone ever need so many screens on the go?
Seems like the sort of thing that might be used to set up like a mobile command station or something. If a disaster occurs and some agency/organization needs to stand up operations at a new location immediately, things like that
Definitely highly situational, but I’m sure some organizations out there are willing to pay a pretty penny for convenience during those types of situations.
Its for people who are sadists toward batteries
“Impractical. Why would anyone ever need so many screens on the go?”
For the same reason why cars that can’t ride over the slightest speed bumps are sold: low self-esteem and a high urge to stroke one’s own ego.
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It doesn’t look like this is even past concept stage, and it’s already mostly obsolete. Is there something close to this that’s a modern commercial product I can buy?
Panasonic Toughbook CF-XZ6
I’ve got a CF-25 here. I keep meaning to find the power supply and seeing if it still works :)
I don’t think the Mediaworkstations a-X2P ever came out of “limited production”, but with an EPYC processor, desktop GPU and 6 screens it still meets the mark IMO.
[Edit]: Sorry, a pair of EPYC processors. And it’s a shipping product.
Not so sure whether it ever was a shipping product, and the company apparently disappeared https://www.techradar.com/pro/company-behind-most-powerful-mobile-workstation-ever-vanishes-say-goodbye-for-your-dreams-of-owning-a-192-core-transportable-computer-with-3tb-of-ram
Apparently you can never have too many screens 😂
Who’s going to start the YouTube channel for it called “Kennit?” where you see just what you can use it to do? First episode should be as an oar.
Huawei Matebook Fold genuinely had me like wow.
Fujitsu Lifebook P-2046. It was semi-rugged with a magnesium alloy chassis but, the real awesome bit was the Transmeta Crusoe processor. It was super power efficient (~15hr between charges with the extended battery) and performed decently. The thing was really ahead of its time.
Anything run on a Crusoe is just amazing. Even when it didn’t live up to the hype, what it did was amazing.
That seems much too pragmatic for this thread 😁
Possibly but the CPU was pretty crazy. It used “code morphing” to translate x86 instructions to its internal ISA, something that just seems a bit ridiculous to do at the hardware level.
And it was powered by Linus Torvalds!
Those things aren’t as rugged as they imply. Go for a brief jaunt and skip a little while swinging it by the handle. It’ll turn into a laptop shaped projectile and leave a dent in both the ground and your wallet.
Getac made some pretty cool ones.
The newer ones don’t have the weird gel keyboard, they’re pretty sweet.
Know someone who stole a military navigational laptop worth about 20,000 , it was pretty cool . But not so cool to try to sell it at the bar and be one of a handful of people with access to it. Unused so no interesting stuff on it either.
