I saw it on Mythbusters S5E3

    • ColdWater@lemmy.caOPEnglish
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      2 months ago

      That’s interesting, a portable desktop with good hardware? I thought such thing didn’t exist at least commercially

      • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        from the still they are doing can you break glass with your voice myth.

        High speed cameras use a lot of bandwidth a 1080p 60fps is about 4Mb/s. now imagine a 1080p at 2000fps. you need a bit of guts to store and process that

        • ColdWater@lemmy.caOPEnglish
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          2 months ago

          It’s from pirate special myth, from the number you provided and if my math aren’t wrong that’s about 8Gb/s, that is a lot of data to transfer and process every second, this is from 10 years ago computer hardware that’s nut

          • MotoAsh@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            2 months ago

            Bandwidth really depends on which busses you’re talking about. Within a computer, 8Gb/s is peanuts.

            Even in 2003, a single PCIE v1.0 lane could do 2 Gb/s. Today, in the end-user commercial space, a single PCIE 5.0 lane can do 32Gb/s. That’s a connection that can be external to some degree. Not even talking about memory busses and internal caches that are already approaching terabytes a second.

      • AstridWipenaugh@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        We called them “luggables”. They’re expensive, but having a server in a box with a monitor was worth it when you could lug it to a customer site and give a live demo of your server stuff. We were doing telephony stuff and you could put a $5000 dialogic pcie card in it and demonstrate call handling live. We can do that with software on a standard issue laptop these days, but the luggable helped seal the deal back in 2005.

  • bobgray123987@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I built one for work. I was going from location to location programming chip shooters and pick and place equipment. Large database back then of the different components and shape codes.

    Now everything could be done remotely or with a standard laptop and Internet connection.

  • carl_dungeon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Luggables are a really cool concept, but their use cases are increasingly niche. It’s amazing what you can do with a computer the size of a power bank these days- but if you really need lots of processors, lots of specialized cards, lots of drives, or lots GPU or something (mobile), luggable is pretty cool.