I saw it on Mythbusters S5E3

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      That’s interesting, a portable desktop with good hardware? I thought such thing didn’t exist at least commercially

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        We called them “luggables”. They’re expensive, but having a server in a box with a monitor was worth it when you could lug it to a customer site and give a live demo of your server stuff. We were doing telephony stuff and you could put a $5000 dialogic pcie card in it and demonstrate call handling live. We can do that with software on a standard issue laptop these days, but the luggable helped seal the deal back in 2005.

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        from the still they are doing can you break glass with your voice myth.

        High speed cameras use a lot of bandwidth a 1080p 60fps is about 4Mb/s. now imagine a 1080p at 2000fps. you need a bit of guts to store and process that

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          It’s from pirate special myth, from the number you provided and if my math aren’t wrong that’s about 8Gb/s, that is a lot of data to transfer and process every second, this is from 10 years ago computer hardware that’s nut

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            Bandwidth really depends on which busses you’re talking about. Within a computer, 8Gb/s is peanuts.

            Even in 2003, a single PCIE v1.0 lane could do 2 Gb/s. Today, in the end-user commercial space, a single PCIE 5.0 lane can do 32Gb/s. That’s a connection that can be external to some degree. Not even talking about memory busses and internal caches that are already approaching terabytes a second.

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        I had a 286 like that (but better build quality), just plug in 220volt and the plasma screen came to life! A 20 MB drive offered a lot of storage space too.