this post was submitted on 10 Sep 2024
99 points (99.0% liked)

PC Master Race

14226 readers
1 users here now

A community for PC Master Race.

Rules:

  1. No bigotry: Including racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia. Code of Conduct.
  2. Be respectful. Everyone should feel welcome here.
  3. No NSFW content.
  4. No Ads / Spamming.
  5. Be thoughtful and helpful: even with ‘stupid’ questions. The world won’t be made better or worse by snarky comments schooling naive newcomers on Lemmy.

Notes:

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

I saw it on Mythbusters S5E3

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I had a 286 like that (but better build quality), just plug in 220volt and the plasma screen came to life! A 20 MB drive offered a lot of storage space too.