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submitted 1 week ago by phantomwise@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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[-] lnxtx@feddit.nl 71 points 1 week ago
[-] phantomwise@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 week ago

I would like to argue but I can't... you win 😅 That's just... I don't have words. Just wow 🤯 🤯 🤯

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?

[-] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago

OMG I must have it.

[-] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago

i could definitely use something like this when i take a shit

[-] Outwit1294@lemmy.today 5 points 1 week ago

Impractical. Why would anyone ever need so many screens on the go?

[-] phantomwise@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago

Just to bask in the ridiculous awesomeness of it.

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…words fail me.

Bravo, fellow meatbag.

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[-] lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de 35 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[-] HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

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!

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[-] RobotZap10000@feddit.nl 6 points 1 week ago

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.

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[-] randombullet@programming.dev 4 points 1 week ago

I didn't see the LTE module? Is it m.2 form factor?

[-] lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] dRLY@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

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

[-] lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's around ~48°C under my regular coding workload (Chrome, Firefox, Slack and phpStorm opened with a video playing). It's basically unhearable under these conditions, with the fan running on the lowest speed.

The max temperature it gets to is ~83°C, which it will reach fairly quick when playing demanding games like Cyberpunk and the device gets a little warm, but not annoyingly hot then. Yes, it's a little thicc boii, but that works for its benefit because the thickness comes from the big heatpipe, fan and cooler.

Disclaimer: I put a PTM7950 pad onto the CPU and it greatly benefits from it. Temps with regular paste are worse - I definitely reached temps in the 90s before (but it was not throttling).

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[-] jacksilver@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Have they gotten better? I had the first GDP Win and it was really underwhelming.

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[-] lime@feddit.nu 24 points 1 week ago

Dragonfly Futurefön

the design is insane, the people behind it are insane, the story is double-insane.

[-] EchoSnail@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago

Wait. Is that windows AND android ?

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[-] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 week ago

yea and then you install windows on it

[-] phantomwise@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

95 obviously, for the vibes

[-] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] phantomwise@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 week ago

That seems much too pragmatic for this thread 😁

[-] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] ferric_carcinization@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago

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.

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[-] artifex@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago

And it was powered by Linus Torvalds!

Anything run on a Crusoe is just amazing. Even when it didn't live up to the hype, what it did was amazing.

[-] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] drathvedro@lemm.ee 16 points 1 week ago

Mine.

Quad screen portable setup, baybeh! Razer's Valerie aint got nuttin' on me!

[-] FireWire400@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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 advertising was interesting...

[-] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 week ago

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

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[-] artifex@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[-] phantomwise@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

Apparently you can never have too many screens 😂

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[-] Nachtnebel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 week ago
[-] StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

This bad boy can take two 5.25"s at same time.

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[-] wetbeardhairs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] Alaik@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 week ago

I actually used OPs Dell as a paramedic. It wasn't bad but I still prefer toughbooks

[-] HayadSont@discuss.online 8 points 1 week ago

I got a couple I really like, though for vastly different reasons:

  • The MNT Reform series takes the crown for their commitment towards open source software AND open source hardware.
  • The ASUS Zenbook DUO is an early entry in the direction of what I perceive as peak design. This technology will only improve from here and I hope other vendors will take cues from this one.
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[-] electronVolt@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago

I am on my third Rugged. Two lemons, third one is fine. Beware, these have hardware issues and get the extended warranty.

[-] Nomecks@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago

Getac made some pretty cool ones.

[-] Zorsith 3 points 1 week ago

The newer ones don't have the weird gel keyboard, they're pretty sweet.

[-] randombullet@programming.dev 7 points 1 week ago

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

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[-] Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

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.

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[-] Magnum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago

Reminds me of SOL, a solar powered rugged laptop running Ubuntu. I think they are on that for the past 10 years or something.

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[-] Oberyn@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Panasonic Toughbook CF-XZ6

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[-] sprite0@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

your Rugged reminded me of GRiD and it looks like they are still in business!

https://www.griduk.com/products/rugged-laptops/gridcase-1590/

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MSI titan line of monsters "technically a laptop, but is closer to a overkill desktop gaming monster". They all weighs like 6 kilos

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