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Gaming laptop leaks with RTX 50 GPU, 192GB RAM, and Arrow Lake-HX CPU (www.tomshardware.com)
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[โ€“] pivot_root 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The target demographic here isn't gamers; it's idiots with too much money... Or maybe game development studios.

[It has] dual Ethernet ports

Most people don't have multiple cat6 runs going to the same wall, nor do they have multiple internet providers being used as active-backup failover for a single machine.

Unless the user's router is right next to their laptop and they understand how to set up bonding, one of these will go entirely unused.

Clevo also went all out on the memory config, offering four DDR5 SODIMM memory slots supporting memory speeds of up to DDR5-5600.

192 GB is overkill for gaming, and sacrificing memory speed and throughput to achieve 2-DIMMs per channel will hurt gaming performance far more than it will help.

Storage consists of a whopping four PCIe M.2 slots, one operating at PCIe 5.0 speeds and the rest operating at PCIe 4.0 speeds.

Current generation games don't take advantage of PCIe 5 speeds. Not that having more space for drives is a bad thing, but I also have a hard time imagining someone would need more than 2 TB to store installed games, unless they're hoarding installs of AAA titles that haven't been played for 8 months.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

The GPU notwithstanding, there's actually a pile of scientific usecases that this kind of power and portability would be very useful for. The dual network ports also provide a nice means of connecting to lab equipment that primarily communicates over ethernet, while still maintaining an easy way to have a reliable connection to a network.

It's almost definitely not targeted at this use-case, but I could certainly see it being looked at for it.