Charlie StrossAnd now for the world's silliest laptop: weighs 25kg, has up to six 24" screens, 192 CPU cores, 6Tb of RAM, and two GPU cards: the a-X2P mobile media workstation! https://www.mediaworkstations.net/systems/portable-amd-workstations/a-x2p/
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@cstross I can see that being quite useful when constructing a flight case for mobile live-streaming/dailies editing in film and broadcasting (which I guess is the target audience for this, picture source: https://www.videolink.ca/videolink-cases.html )
RobCorneliusI used to work for Quantel back when they existed. They were working on something like this about 8 or 9 years ago.
Well when I say "working on" I mean "someone with an impressive job title wandered into a lab and reappeared months later with the basics of something like this and it was then forgotten about". That's how they operated.
@robcornelius @jwildeboer I used to work for the engineer who designed the PLUTO card and the graphics engine in the Quantel Paintbox. Set up his own company. In 1990 they were selling an ISA-bus graphics card with four i860 cores and 16Mb of VRAM for a cool £16,000. (Call it £25,000 in today's money.) Matrox and Nvidia caught up with the performance in the consumer under-£500 sector about 8 years later ...
It cost more than its weight in silver.
I probably worked with people who worked with him then.
They were a truly terrible company to work for. I should have walked out on Day 1 when the manager who hired me said "We were so glad to see a white guy apply". No shit. An IT company of ~400 people in the UK and not one black or brown face.
In their day they had a licence to print money but blew it suing Adobe. Eventually they got taken over, then that company was bought out. Its all gone now. Good riddance.