The company that created one of the craziest workstation laptops we’ve ever seen has disappeared just a few months after dazzling the world with its latest offering.
MediaWorkstation a-X2P promised no fewer than six displays that aren’t quite a laptop or a mobile workstation, but are still a real powerhouse. This model featured two AMD EPYC Genoa Zen 4 CPUs, each with 96 cores, in addition to up to 3TB DDR5 RAM.
The machine also supported up to two full-size GPUs or accelerators, one M.2 NVMe boost SSD, and five storage drives – all powered by a power supply unit believed to deliver almost 2 kW, and cooled by six fans.
Multi-screen madness
Although this machine looked real, MediaWorkstation has since gone dark and the site is no longer available at the time of writing. This likely marks the end of the line of extremely powerful portable workstations.
MediaWorkstation isn’t the only tech company that has dabbled in the creation of multi-display machines that have disappeared off the face of the earth in recent weeks.
The Aurora 7 concept workstation, built by British developer Expanscape, featured four 17.3-inch 4K displays alongside another two seven-inch 1200p monitors and another seven-inch 1200p touchscreen to the right of the device’s touchpad.
But unfortunately that device will never come to market after the company closed in November 2023 Business Housefive years after its founding and two years after the debut of its seven-screen proof-of-concept laptop.
It comes after a Canadian startup – the Portable Monitor – showcased its portable monitoring device at CES 2024 that could be connected to your laptop to expand it with an additional four screens.
As a machine, the Aurora 7 concept was no slouch and could easily compete with the best workstations of the time. It was equipped with an Intel Core i9-9900K processor and 64 GB of DDR4 RAM. It also had an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 inside, meaning it was definitely suitable for heavy workloads.