cazter
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« on: Sep 30, 2010, 06:39:18 pm » |
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After receiving the most monstrous laptop ever created (in terms of both specs and physical size), we quickly went work seeing what this puppy could do! Unfortunately the first few hours turned up one of the weirdest hardware failures I have ever come across (and being in the industry, I have come across more the my fair share). The issue involved the SSD that seemed to work perfectly right up until the box was shut down and then it lost all changes made to it, including configurations and software installations! This of course only started happening after the OS, drivers, and basic Geekbox software packages were loaded. So yea, very very odd. But Geekbox customer support went to work, swapped the drive out, and wah-lah, Monstrous laptop back in action (big thanks to Zach and Cameron)!
This thing is a rock star! Standard rule in computers is if you want real power, go to a desktop. But Geekbox has managed to change the rules and build a laptop that beats out desktops. Or more specifically, beats out HP's top of the line work horse desktop that was specifically designed for the most hardcore CAD work. These HP desktops are rocking dual Xeon's, 8 cores a piece, with 8 logicals on top (basically, 16 CPUs to a box). Side by side, each running the same Solidworks render, the Geekbox laptop is rendering faster each time! Sometimes twice as fast depending on the render. And these HP's are only a few weeks older then the new Geekbox laptop... so it's not as though a new CPU architecture is beating out and old one. Instead it's build vs build, the best of what each company has to offer, and Geekbox wins by a landslide.
Much appreciation to everyone at Geekbox. You guys rock... Keep the passion, maintain the work ethic, and as amazing as this box was I expect the next build I order to to devastate it!
Brent Allen
Virtual8, LLC
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