Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/10/01/laptop-with-full-4090-gpu-weighs-15-pounds.html
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I wasn’t even aware that this was a benchmark people used.
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I see we’ve returned full circle to the “luggable” laptops of the 1990’s. I’m sure this thing will make your crypto-mining fully portable now.
My Y2K setup was a “portable” Sparc laptop that weighed 20 lbs (along with an extra 5 lb charging brick). I’d have to carry this along with my other Windows laptop on sales calls just to run our fancy Java application. Fun times.
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I feel like if you are going this far you might as well do it all in a custom hard side case with a form factor that could fit a reasonable monitor. Something +27" would be nice. Even a 19" laptop display is mediocre compared to anything on the higher end for desktop.
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I call BS on it running at 70 under load (ie 4k at 60fps). Thermal management is the Achilles Heel of SFF gaming rigs.
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bringing back luggables
I swing in the other direction. Never buying/building a full desktop again. Mine shipped at just under 2 lbs
the series is called the nuc enthusiast - paid $1000 for rtx 2060 and 32 gb ram. Intel recently sold the nuc division to asus, hopefully the line will continue in its diminutive glory.
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Link? That looks pretty interesting.
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So is @beschizza shopping for a new laptop?
I assume if you put that on your lap it straight up cooks your testicles (should you have them) and turns your scrotum into a small piece of flappy leather with some hardened raisins in it?
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My first computer was a hand-me-down Osborne 1.
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I can remember being on a business trip (technical support) years ago, and struggling through an airport carrying this
(or something similar) while trying to get to a connecting flight. Not fun times!
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… it’s portable
(for large people anyway)
“Only works near a power outlet” should not really be a deal breaker — I’ve had used laptops with that restriction before 
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I knew a guy that had one of those…
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I’m legit interested in a luggable like this. I do media content for work, and mostly work at a desk both in the office and home. I just want to have one computer and (lug) it with me without performance compromises. I hate working at cafes, airplanes etc anyway so it doesn’t even need a battery. A laptop screen/keyboard is nice so in emergencies I can work on it when not at a desk.
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I am getting a Chuwi Minibook X
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That brings back some memories…
Back in 2007/2008, I needed a portable workstation that I could use for running a hand full of virtual machines in for training. I got a “luggable PC” shell from eBay, completely gutted it and managed to cram a mini-ITX board with a fairly speedy Core 2 Duo in it, and as much memory as the machine supported. It was heavy, so I bought some wheeled luggage to haul it around in, and that worked quite nicely for several years, until grounding issues with the design forced me to move the guts into a more proper case.
There are companies that specialize in making actual workstation-class systems for things like stage gigs, trade shows, etc., but they are insanely expensive.
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My father still has his Osborne 1, compete with the manual containing circuit diagrams of the motherboard and the source code of the BIOS.
The electrolytics have done their bulgy thing, so it will need some quality time with a soldering iron before it will boot again, but he wrote at least one of his theses on that, and I used to play ADVENT and WUMPUS on it.
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