From the same company that brought you the Indestructo Steel Ball and the Strait-Jacket Ejecting Bazooka, the Acme Portable GTS 370 is a whore red portable rig with three unfoldable 17-inch SXGA LCD panels mounted to the side. Other than that, Acme is being coy on specs, although the only people I can think of who would have a use for this are avid LAN gamers.
Acme Portable PC GTS370 Desktop [AVING via Slashgear]
Anyone who works on-site and behind-the-scenes at events (corporate meetings, press events, product launches, etc.) might take a look at this once specs are reliably available.
As a graphic designer, I’ve loaded many, many multiple-monitor setups in and out of ballrooms, theaters, and convention centers and can tell you: faster setup + fewer cases + fewer wires = worth checking out.
Nice display recursion (deeper, deeper!) Or is that a 5″ bezel?
SD, yes this would make a nice “lug to your customer and show off cool hardware” sales device. Or “use or lose” budgeting device.
@2: True, it might impress someone, and I’m sure some people will buy it simply for the shiny-new-look.
I was referring to using it as true behind-the-curtain/backstage gear. Live events like I mentioned often involve truckloads of gear that gets set up in huge stacks among the production crew.
I would likely have my Photoshop tools and layer lists on the left screen, alternate between Photoshop and PowerPoint workspaces on the center screen, and have the live-to-the-house PowerPoint feed on the right screen.
As a live-sound engineer, I definitely would love to use a box like that. Less setup time, less tear-down time: that really counts: focus on the job.
@3: True that, the engineer’s stand at the “rave” section of Yuri’s Night had far more computing and audio equipment than the DJ’s. Lots of folks working multi-display computers to drive the video, the lights, etc. A couple of these boxes would replace half their equipment, I s’pose.
Ditto the live sound/vid/lighting engineering and demo apps.
And the gaming market does exist; I know folks who have spent Entirely Too Much on systems that can be carried to a LAN party and blow away all the high-powered gaming laptops, and attaching the flatscreen to the case does make a tower system reasonably portable.
I’m not completely convinced those applications actually _need_ all that screen real-estate, or in fact need a killer processor, in most applications… but if it’s available at a reasonable price, we’ll certainly use it.
Has anyone heard just how unreasonable the price is, and/or whether one can just get developers’ kits based on it? (Just the case and displays, bring-your-own-ATX.)
WANT!