{"id":626930,"date":"2023-04-08T09:49:25","date_gmt":"2023-04-08T14:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/08\/not-an-ordinary-laptop-the-worlds-most-powerful-mobile-workstation-bundles-192-cores-up-to-3tb-and-six-monitors\/"},"modified":"2023-04-08T09:49:25","modified_gmt":"2023-04-08T14:49:25","slug":"not-an-ordinary-laptop-the-worlds-most-powerful-mobile-workstation-bundles-192-cores-up-to-3tb-and-six-monitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/08\/not-an-ordinary-laptop-the-worlds-most-powerful-mobile-workstation-bundles-192-cores-up-to-3tb-and-six-monitors\/","title":{"rendered":"Not an ordinary laptop: the world\u2019s most powerful mobile workstation bundles 192 cores, up to 3TB and six monitors"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Almost three years after the launch of its a-X2P Rome-based portable mobile workstation<\/u><\/a>, MediaWorkstation has a refreshed model, arguably the most powerful integrated transportable computer in the world.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It is not a laptop<\/u><\/a> or a mobile workstation in the true sense; it is closer in its design to an all-in-one PC<\/u><\/a>, similar to the luggables of yesteryear as it doesn\u2019t have any internal battery; you would probably only get 10 minutes usage at most with one of our best portable power stations<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ideal for what the boutique PC vendor calls \u201chighly multi-threaded applications in the field\u201d, the new model has been upgraded to support AMD\u2019s EPYC<\/u><\/a> Genoa based on Zen 4. That means two EPYC 9654 CPUs, each with 96 cores, up to 12 x 256GB memory modules (totaling 3TB of DDR5 memory).<\/p>\n

You can plug up to two full height, full size GPU<\/u><\/a>s (or accelerators), one M.2 NVMe boot SSD<\/u><\/a> and five storage drives. All this is cooled by half-a-dozen fans and a power supply unit of unknown capacity (likely to be closer to 2Kw). The motherboard used is likely to be the recently-launched Gigabyte MZ73, a rare e-ATX dual-socket SP5 model.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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There\u2019s plenty of ports but no Thunderbolt 3 or 4<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n

There\u2019s plenty of ports, but no Thunderbolt 3 or 4 connections, which is a surprising omission given the wide variety of use cases that would make good use of that. In the absence of any wireless connectivity options, a pair of 10GbE connectors will ensure that this mobile studio can connect to the outside world.<\/p>\n

Pictures show five 5.25-inch drive bays and a slot-in optical drive, seven slots for PCIe devices and legacy ports such as DVI and PS2.<\/p>\n

The a-X2P can also be used with six 24-inch monitors<\/u><\/a> (up to 4K and 1000 nits brightness), a configuration that will push the weight of the mobile workstation to 55 pounds. Each workstation comes with a touchpad and heavy duty mechanical keyboard which folds up onto the display for transport as well as a thick, sewn vinyl wheeled carrying case.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve reached out to MediaWorkstation to find out whether the a-2XP actually supports 6TB as it is mentioned in the tech specs that it is compatible with 256GB 3DS RDIMM DDR5<\/u><\/a> Modules.<\/p>\n

Expect to pay at more than $200,000 for a top-end, fully kitted mobile workstation that will rival any desktop bound workstation PC<\/u><\/a> or video editing PC<\/u><\/a>. You cannot configure any products online and you will need to go through a form or do it over the phone – which is understandable as such a niche player will want to weed out time wasters and focus on serious customers instead.<\/p>\n

The company also sells portable Xeon-based workstation PCs, both in single and dual socket variants (i-X1P, i-X2P), and single-core AMD EPYC-based and Threadripper Pro ones (a-X2P, a-XP).<\/p>\n

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