I'm wondering what would be the use case for a laptop with 24TB storage.
video editing, multiple projects
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#22I'm wondering what would be the use case for a laptop with 24TB storage.
Photographers and camera operators. One of my students remarked that his dad saves his pictures in raw format, and that they've grown much bigger in recent years.
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#23Isn't the GPU throttled anyways? Because it's going to be a mobile version?
But if you're just interested in doing some machine learning on it, then it's all about how much RAM and not really how fast. I used to use my gaming laptop to do a lot of local ML
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#24It pulls data from Amazon and so is limited to availability there. For instance, the most expensive MacBook in there is $5839 while on the Apple Store you can max out at $7349 (hardware only). I suspact same goes for other manufacturers. So if you want to blow ungodly amount of money you’d need to do some extra research.
True, you can spend more money than this and probably get better performance. I already had data from Amazon so I thought this would be a fun list.
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#25Outside of some of the fascinating VAIO laptops with their wild and wacky features, I have never loved a super expensive laptop. I like a laptop that can get the job done when I need to and easily be fixed if I need to when I am on the road. At the moment that is Framework, and previously thinkpad, and a while ago, Powerbooks. I have learned as I became older that the device is a tool to getting the work done, not so…
> Outside of some of the fascinating VAIO laptops with their wild and wacky features, I have never loved a super expensive laptop.
Sure, if and only if you put in the word "super". Frameworks are expensive, starting around $1000 or $1500 depending on screen size. Perfectly good models are available for 1/3 the price.
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#26The thinkpad is insane, 7k and NOT EVEN A GRAPHICS CARD
I think that listing is an anomaly; I see models with similar specs for cheaper (~$5000) on Lenovo's site. But they do come with Nvidia Ada GPUs.
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#27I'm wondering what would be the use case for a laptop with 24TB storage.
Anything to do with geotiffs
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#28It seems like a scam that gaming laptops are marketed with the headline, i.e: GeForce RTX 5090, then in the fine print, read: GeForce RTX 5090 laptop GPU.
Are there any laptops that actually have a desktop GPU built in?
Yes (at least there used to be), but obviously that has a certain effect on their battery life and cooling requirements.
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#29Outside of some of the fascinating VAIO laptops with their wild and wacky features, I have never loved a super expensive laptop. I like a laptop that can get the job done when I need to and easily be fixed if I need to when I am on the road. At the moment that is Framework, and previously thinkpad, and a while ago, Powerbooks. I have learned as I became older that the device is a tool to getting the work done, not so…
> I like a laptop that can get the job done Of course, but it depends on the job. If you're working on heavy 3D scenes, or doing video work in 4k or 8k, then "gets the job done" will be an expensive laptop. Maybe not $8k expensive, but $4k easily. For this kind of work it's often cheaper to buy a highly specced gaming laptop rather than a workstation laptop.
But there are mobile workstations for that if someone would turn up with a wacky 8k MSI gaming laptop he would certainly get some looks. Not because of the performance but because of no 24h replacement.
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#30...these are kind of quaint, honestly.
The FZ-40GZ-0SBM is almost $8000. You get an Intel Core Ultra 7 165H, 32GB of RAM, and 512 GB of SSD space. Intel integrated GPU only.
The Getac X600 Server Laptop be decked out with a Xeon W-11865MRE, 128GB of RAM, and 6TB of storage space (no GPU again), but it'll run you a cool $17,000.
IIRC they weigh 7 to 10 lbs, so not terribly light either.