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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
GPD Win Max 2. I love this little thing so much. ~8-10 hours of battery life, up to 64GB RAM, 16-core Ryzen on the newest model, 2K display. It's only 10 inches and it can run Cyberpunk with raytracing. It also has two slots for SSD's and an optional LTE module.
The sticks are hall effect sensors, so there's no drift (looking at you, Nintendo). The keyboard is backlit and feels way too satisfying for something this small. (I actually like typing on it)
On the backside of the device, you can slide out two metal covers and place them on top of the thumbsticks, hiding them and making the device look more professional.
I once took this to a customer doing a training session and dropped the line "This thing is more powerful than all the computers in this room" and it was probably true.
the design is insane, the people behind it are insane, the story is double-insane.
Huawei Matebook Fold genuinely had me like wow.
Panasonic Toughbook CF-XZ6
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.
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
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.
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 π
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!
Getac made some pretty cool ones.
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.
Let summon BOSS: Expanscape Aurora 7
i could definitely use something like this when i take a shit
OMG I must have it.
Impractical. Why would anyone ever need so many screens on the go?
It's for people who are sadists toward batteries
Every Macbook Air in the coffeeshop crashes out of sheer terror and awe when you unfold that nerdstation.
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?
I would like to argue but I can't... you win π That's just... I don't have words. Just wow π€― π€― π€―
