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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
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ThinkPad W701DS. Depending on configuration it has an intergrated Wacom digitiser w/ pen, a built-in Pantone colorimeter, two RAIDed hard drives and of course the glorious second screen that pops out.
The w700ds/w701ds (“Dual Screen”)
… was not Lenovo’s last try at putting two screens on a laptop; see also the X1 Fold and Yoga 9i
your Rugged reminded me of Grid and it looks like they are still in business!
https://www.griduk.com/products/rugged-laptops/gridcase-1590/
I am on my third Rugged. Two lemons, third one is fine. Beware, these have hardware issues and get the extended warranty.
I actually used OPs Dell as a paramedic. It wasn’t bad but I still prefer toughbooks
This was recently featured on Linus Tech Tips: https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Ruggedized-trifold-computer-offers-three-18_1600635369600.html
The laptop with a full sized mechanical keyboard on it. Oh and dual 330w power bricks.
https://www.pcworld.com/article/407225/acer-predator-21-x-review.html
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.
How hot does it get under load of stuff like Cyberpunk or similar programs? I am always jazzed to see high-end laptops, but I am aware of heat being a given. We get a lot of normies (or gamers that dip their toes into PC gaming) that have more money than sense just demanding the most powerful laptop. And they bring them in for us to check-out due to how hot they get. Some of it comes down to them not knowing how to stop all the programs from starting up with it and causing it to heat up from the jump even before launching a game or whatever. lol
Have they gotten better? I had the first GDP Win and it was really underwhelming.
10/10 device - it’s a solid laptop though I worry about longevity (they’re a bastard to repair because the arts are all hard to find).
Upside is it’s the perfect machine for travel gaming!
Do you grip the device in both hands to use the joysticks, or do you just move them around with your thumbs? It looks rather thick, but also very cool.
I didn’t see the LTE module? Is it m.2 form factor?
It’s proprietary I think, you can buy it as an accessory and put it in yourself or get the machine with it already builtin.
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.
yea and then you install windows on it
95 obviously, for the vibes
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 😂
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.
For my purposes (note taking in college), it absolutely lived up to the hype. No x86 laptop that I could find at the time came close to its battery life.
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.
It’s way more common than you may realize. Intel & AMD (and other x86 CPU manufacturers of the time) did it before the first Crusoe CPU launched. (2000 according to Wikipedia)
CISC architectures are now seen as inefficient, so all the new ones are RISC and new CISC CPUs just translate the instructions to their intenal RISCier microarchitecture. The CPU’s microcode specifies what an instruction translates to.
Oh, absolutely. The thing that is weird is being non-x86 hardware and explicitly implementing the translation layer in hardware that has minimal field configurability (they did have the capability of loading something similar to microcode). It makes sense in some ways (performance being a big one) but, seems like it would be vulnerable to potential changes in the external ISA.
And it was powered by Linus Torvalds!
