I saw it on Mythbusters S5E3

  • carl_dungeon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    6 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.

    • ColdWater@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      0·
      6 months ago

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

      • AstridWipenaugh@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        6 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.