Workstations On The Move

摘要

This year, 2008, marks the year Moore's law gave us the most mobile workstations ever. They are laptop computers with 17-inch or greater screens, powerful dual- and quad-core processors with gigabytes of fast DDR2 DRAM, powerful GPUs with lots of graphics memory, high-speed and large-capacity disks with RAID, optical drives with Blu-ray, every kind of I/O you can imagine, and more features tiian you can find on many desk-bound machines. Those are the facts. But what does it all mean? Aside from the sheer pleasure of being able to take your work with you all the time, what would be the motivation for having a portable workstation, and how portable are we talking? What about the workstation side? Are there compromises? It seems like there are some incontrovertible conflicts in the premise.