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Who Wants a Quad-Core 4.2GHz, 64GB, 5TB SSD RAID 10 … Laptop?

9 points by munkiepus 11y ago

krisroadruck 11y ago
get it down under 3lbs, and give it at least 9 hours of battery life, touch screen, precision trackpad and a 13in form factor and I'd gladly pay $5K for such a machine. Sadly we aren't there yet.
- Dylan16807 11y ago
  You want a 13 inch 4k screen?
  - munkiepus 11y ago
    of course you do, you can sit really close to it and pretend you're at the imax :)
  - mywittyname 11y ago
    That's roughly the pixel density in the retina iPad.
- i336_ 11y ago
  Estimated ETA: 3-5 years Let's see how my guess works out! :P
Dylan16807 11y ago
>Eurocom says the machine has a battery, which is a bit of a disappointment because it had previously labelled the portable power source an “uninterruptible power supply”. The difference being? Is there a point in using RAID 1 on solid state drives inside a single machine? There's no mechanical failure to worry about and I wouldn't trust it to prevent any other kind of simultaneous failure.
- i336_ 11y ago
  >>Eurocom says the machine has a battery, which is a bit of a disappointment because it had previously labelled the portable power source an “uninterruptible power supply”. > The difference being? Once I'd taken in the specs I noticed where the corner they shoved the tiny battery, and laughed. It probably manages 45 minutes on a full charge. Maybe a bit over an hour. I'd be very surprised if it managed any more than that. Mobile chipsets are designed to be aggressively obsessive with power consumption, whereas it appears this behemoth crams a full socketed i7 that most definitely does not have any such power-saving tendencies. > Is there a point in using RAID 1 on solid state drives inside a single machine? There's no mechanical failure to worry about and I wouldn't trust it to prevent any other kind of simultaneous failure. I'm honestly not sure. If anything it probably wrecks the wear leveling in the chips. It's probably a marketing move to make it feel like a "fast" laptop - I would hope most smart users would probably nuke the RAID and use Storage Spaces, ZFS or LVM instead.

9 points by munkiepus 11y ago

get it down under 3lbs, and give it at least 9 hours of battery life, touch screen, precision trackpad and a 13in form factor and I'd gladly pay $5K for such a machine. Sadly we aren't there yet.

Dylan16807 11y ago
You want a 13 inch 4k screen?
- munkiepus 11y ago
  of course you do, you can sit really close to it and pretend you're at the imax :)
- mywittyname 11y ago
  That's roughly the pixel density in the retina iPad.
i336_ 11y ago
Estimated ETA: 3-5 years Let's see how my guess works out! :P

Dylan16807 11y ago

>Eurocom says the machine has a battery, which is a bit of a disappointment because it had previously labelled the portable power source an “uninterruptible power supply”. The difference being? Is there a point in using RAID 1 on solid state drives inside a single machine? There's no mechanical failure to worry about and I wouldn't trust it to prevent any other kind of simultaneous failure.

i336_ 11y ago
>>Eurocom says the machine has a battery, which is a bit of a disappointment because it had previously labelled the portable power source an “uninterruptible power supply”. > The difference being? Once I'd taken in the specs I noticed where the corner they shoved the tiny battery, and laughed. It probably manages 45 minutes on a full charge. Maybe a bit over an hour. I'd be very surprised if it managed any more than that. Mobile chipsets are designed to be aggressively obsessive with power consumption, whereas it appears this behemoth crams a full socketed i7 that most definitely does not have any such power-saving tendencies. > Is there a point in using RAID 1 on solid state drives inside a single machine? There's no mechanical failure to worry about and I wouldn't trust it to prevent any other kind of simultaneous failure. I'm honestly not sure. If anything it probably wrecks the wear leveling in the chips. It's probably a marketing move to make it feel like a "fast" laptop - I would hope most smart users would probably nuke the RAID and use Storage Spaces, ZFS or LVM instead.