I saw it on Mythbusters S5E3

    • ColdWater@lemmy.caOP
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      3 months ago

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

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        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.