Looks retro. All it needs is a crt.
Interesting and unique design.
Radeon 780M iGPU for a $2 K price (I am assuming this is American style list pricing, even if they are London based) seems like a unattractive proposition.
The lack of detailed specifications on their webpage conflicts with the “Computers for experts” marketing.
An expert would want to know the SSD is used and the exact RAM model.
Radeon 780M iGPU for a $2 K price (I am assuming this is American style list pricing, even if they are London based) seems like a unattractive proposition.
It’s deceptively good. The 96 gigs of RAM is unified memory, accessible to both the CPU and GPU. It’s not great for gaming, but it punches above its weight running large AI models.
That said, for $2K I’d be looking for something with a Ryzen AI MAX+ 395 and 128 gigs of RAM in it.
That said, for $2K I’d be looking for something with a Ryzen AI MAX+ 395 and 128 gigs of RAM in it.
As you said, for $2K (I am assuming the real price is closer to $2,200 if it’s US style list prices) it is reasonable to expect a Strix Halo system.
The 7940HS is Zen 4 from ~3 years ago. Single thread performance isn’t all that great by modern standards and MT is subpar. Considering the form factor, it’s probably not much better than a 5800X (in a real case with strong cooling) from ~5 years ago.
It’s reasonable to expect that a professional, “computers for experts” that’s “made for making”, has strong ST performance and especially MT for $2K+. Not all professional use cases benefit from GPU compute, many require both ST and MT CPU performance.
I would argue it’s not deceptively good.
See when I hear “developer terminal,” I immediately think headless thin client, where any “platform” proposal must be some kind of dxg mig-style shared resource architecture.
But they don’t mean that. They mean a physical dev-oriented machine you pay us to build. Given the slick isometric rendering’s apparent retro form-factor, I bet their engineer wanted to call it the “the ice-cracking deck” but marketing insisted they would be taken more seriously by developers if they used current terminology (incorrectly).
At least they’re all larping sci-fi in their own way. More power to them.
