Aurora 7 Laptop is CRAZY

[Thingyman]

 

Summary

Expanscape has just announced prototypes for its Aurora 7 laptop with 7 screens. It is currently only available to purchase via inquiry, and pricing has not yet been revealed. It weighs in at around 12 kilograms, so it's not intended for everyone. It also has some pretty beefy specs, including an i9 9900K, 64 GB of ram, and a GTX 1060.

 

 

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What if you need a mobile system with more than three screens? Well, Expanscape has developed a prototype of a laptop with as many as seven screens, and it is already selling the prototypes to interested customers. It also comes packed with an impressive amount of power on the compute side to match. 

 

The Aurora 7 Prototype indeed comes with four 17.3-inch monitors featuring a 4K resolution (two working in landscape, two in portrait mode) as well as three auxiliary 7-inch screens featuring a 1920 x 1200 resolution. All the monitors fold or swivel out of the primary chassis, making it a transformer of sorts, and no on-site assembly before deployment is necessary. The whole system weighs around 12 kilograms, so it is not easy to carry, but it is naturally easier to transport than a laptop along with six extra displays. 

 

My thoughts

 Personally, I don't really see the use of this. I still would really want it, but if they could perhaps develop a 2 or 3 screen one for consumer use would be much better and I would think would actually sell a decent bit. I think if this were to happen, I think the major factor would be price. I wonder how expensive the prototypes are now? I honestly am not sure. Probably at least 4-5 grand.

 

Sources

Expanscape

Tom's Hardware

[WhitetailAni]

A 9900K with a 1060?
What year is it?

[Thingyman]

Well it's not exactly designed for gaming, is it? Also, this is still a prototype, so it can change. 

[SavageNeo]

4 minutes ago, Thingyman said:

Well it's not exactly designed for gaming, is it? Also, this is still a prototype, so it can change. 

still. if someone does professional work and need Cuda, 1060 is not that good option.

also 9900k when there are much better cpus out there. 9900k is still a beast but there are better options form AMD and from Intel

[bcredeur97]

can already see youtuber stock traders buying this thing 

[Thingyman]

1 minute ago, gabrielcarvfer said:

Meme stock trader laptop

The stonk machine

[CephDigital]

40 minutes ago, gabrielcarvfer said:

Meme stock trader laptop

(wait why is this age restricted?, it's only Wolf of Meme Street by Corridor Digital...)

[WereCat]

Laptop 

Mobile Desktop when looking at that massive thing. The spec make no sense, there should be a Quadro by default.

[bcredeur97]

19 minutes ago, huilun02 said:

I want to see someone use this at a Starbucks

you'd spend more time answering peoples questions about it than getting actual work done lol

[sub68]

thats a thicc boi

[Red :)]

[SansVarnic]

Lol, not bad but I have a feeling someone has been watching to many "hacker" movies.

This has no real-life practical use case.

[Guest]

This laptop understands me. Not everything has to be thin and light. Fuck that trend.

[CephDigital]

13 minutes ago, LoganDark said:

This laptop understands me. Not everything has to be thin and light. Fuck that trend.

It if can't break my back from carrying it, make it THICC-er

[Aereldor]

If a GTX 1060 is your idea of beefy then you're a vegan

[Middcore]

11 minutes ago, Aereldor said:

If a GTX 1060 is your idea of beefy then you're a vegan

Well, it does say it's a prototype. Feels kinda like they picked the components when they started working on this which could have been a couple years ago now. 

 

This thing looks like a NetWatch agent from Cyberpunk carries it in their briefcase. 

[Arika]

5 hours ago, huilun02 said:

I want to see someone use this at a Starbucks

I want to see someone use this on battery for more than a minute

[Jet_ski]

9 hours ago, Thingyman said:

 

Summary

Expanscape has just announced prototypes for its Aurora 7 laptop with 7 screens. It is currently only available to purchase via inquiry, and pricing has not yet been revealed. It weighs in at around 12 kilograms, so it's not intended for everyone. It also has some pretty beefy specs, including an i9 9900K, 64 GB of ram, and a GTX 1060.

 

 

Quotes

 

My thoughts

 Personally, I don't really see the use of this. I still would really want it, but if they could perhaps develop a 2 or 3 screen one for consumer use would be much better and I would think would actually sell a decent bit. I think if this were to happen, I think the major factor would be price. I wonder how expensive the prototypes are now? I honestly am not sure. Probably at least 4-5 grand.

 

Sources

Expanscape

Tom's Hardware

Maybe for gov personnel for emergency response? But then again when have they responded urgently to emergencies!

[porina]

9 hours ago, ragnarok0273 said:

A 9900K with a 1060?
What year is it?

Tried to buy anything newer than that recently?  

 

 

On the laptop itself, not sure about the smaller upper-side screens. Feels like a step too far. Still, 4 displays (normal one, above, left, right) I think would make a great portable streaming setup.

[WhitetailAni]

5 minutes ago, porina said:

Tried to buy anything newer than that recently?  

I haven't tried to buy anything.

[Middcore]

2 hours ago, Arika S said:

I want to see someone use this on battery for more than a minute

 

It should come with an external battery you carry in a second briefcase. What a flex that would be while sipping your chai latte. 

[Bombastinator]

11 hours ago, ragnarok0273 said:

A 9900K with a 1060?
What year is it?

I think that many tiny screens means it’s intended for stock brokerage stuff which doesn’t actually require all that much.  It actually probably overpowered for that.

[Doobeedoo]

Haxor laptop.

[sub68]

this looks like a modded Panasonic toughbook with more screens and less battery life

[Bombastinator]

On 2/6/2021 at 6:20 PM, Jet_ski said:

Maybe for gov personnel for emergency response? But then again when have they responded urgently to emergencies!

US disaster stuff?  When the were last funded well enough to actually do so and the issue wasn’t played down to protect the reputation of political leaders.  Can’t speak to other countries.  NGOs behave just like any other large organization.  Nothing can happen without money.  Even fax paper costs money.  Remove the money and you stop the functioning of the organization.  One thing for sure it’s not for gaming.  It’s for watching multiple graphs at once.  There are a few types of business that rely on that sort of thing.   The problem is it looks like it’s a computer meant for air travel, and there hasn’t been a ton of that lately.