HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Half?

Call Lenovo ;-))

I still use old IBM ones, Lenovo has turned the thinkpads into pure garbage, all the ones I have have already died and the IBM ones from 2002 are still ticking. Heck I still have an IBM brick ThinkPad from the 90's that runs flawlessly.

jigga jaw HP or apple. The rest is overpriced garbage

@@dominikhinov965 You saying Apple products aren't overpriced garbage? You so much as touch one the wrong way and it breaks.

IBM Thinkpad was the only true laptop I ever had. It was back in the end of 90's. Lenovo? I wont buy it. Never. Since IBM sold their market I dont like any other laptop on the market. Its very sad. I tried Dell Precision, HP Zbook -they are far beyond what IBM Thinkpad was back then. Lenovo is Lenovo. They already trashed the philosophy of IBM Thinkpad, their laptop basics was redesigned years ago...

If you send me some designs I will make you one.

@@TRIPPLEJAY00 how much do you charge for custom cases?

@@McIntec We'll never know I guess

das blinkenlight sehn

No blinkenlights anymore.

But still one can't play games on this computer.

It can store that on half a "stick" of RAM

Yours and most likely your whole schools.

@@EGL24Xx i don't get it

funy0n You will one day

@@supe4701 why is it half a "stick" of ram? i really don't understand

Deep

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10.60Ghz huh??? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Yeah I don't know about that one chief.

It would be one hell of a couch

"Basement". :-)

Ha. Team colors - - Blue.

Yeah...good question. Nowadays, the modern mainframes is able to host a lot of new techs like kvm, a lot of flavors of Linux, containers, Java applications, web servers and others. Beside that it has a great amount of processors availably and quick memories to attend those VMs, just using one server mainframe (CEC).

Huh. You can build higher reliability cluster with x86 or Arm, for the fraction of the cost, and with lower power usage for the same performance. There might still be some legacy applications where z series make sense, but it is just laziness.

Those firms don’t have any company skills or tradition in mainframe. When you don’t then it’s hard to consider, (and when you do then it’s hard to break free)

initial capex is high, this means that initial investment is high. and they kind of like it when a maintenance issue arises it just puts down one small server. if someone doesn't have experience with mainframes, then thinking about when one goes down is pretty scary

@@SpiraSpiraSpira well sure, but as I noted in a reply last year, that's the scale on which there are outage problems on mainframes. Years.

The IBM PC got its power switch from IBM mainframes, not the other way about. :)

IBM

vSphere? It could not utilitize that mainframe! More like Open stack / dockerwith 2.4 million containers! Official claim by IBM.

It's not as much fun as you might think.

@@johnjameshardy That depends on what your employer is having you do and how much latitude they give you in your job. I was a developer for those machines some years ago, and I really liked it.

DUDE WTF

And the finished weight.

I think it was z14.

IBM CE (Computer Engineer). IBM CE’s do the installs and hookups mostly. We Systems Programers (called Admins these days) load the OS (Operating System) who are REALLY well paid job these days. I install and Admin pieces of the OS called CICS and MQ.

@@andyandy4306 what are the IO channels in the mainframe?

Yeah, but only on medium settings

theorhetically, if a graphics driver is coded and an appropriate enclosure and power delivery system provided for an ultra high end graphics card, Crysis could easily run far faster on this than any x86 system, given their superior clock speed and supposedly higher general IPC.

But it probably runs on Linux.

lol

Star Citizen... crisis is easy :)

Brenda Price indeed

That would suck if not. Looked like a lot of work

gray still plays would like that gaming rig

About as many as in this spoof... www.ominous-valve.com/vtsc.html

A hundred billion at least.

Very much.

@le random guy what's a doom port ?

@le random guy oh

Well game studios do be acting with their optimization like we all have such beasts at home.

There's no real reason this machine couldn't run Doom. Doom only needs integer arithmetic and this machine could do the math in BCD if it has to. The graphics could simply be output to a virtual frame buffer in memory, encoded with a video codec and then streamed over TCP. Same thing for the sound. And keyboard / mouse / game controller come back on the return path. So yes, an entire environment capable of many concurrent doom sessions can potentially be launched by submitting a few lines of JCL. There's also no real reason why it couldn't run today's latest games. With a little bit of extra hardware in the form of a GPU. I read somewhere that the Z16 machines have GPU-like hardware. It might not be optimized for graphic, but it probably is enough for a decent game experience. In future we might see machines built specifically for hosting games and similar services. The most compelling upsides to that are total control over the game experience and the ability to in realtime analyze player behaviors and adapt the experience.

I saw a YT video some years ago in which the video maker visited either an Argentinian or Brazilian company whose staff showed him that they're using a mainframe to run an online game with either hundreds or thousands of players. They demonstrated it in action but didn't delve into technical details or, if I recall correctly, name the game.

I may be wrong, but in terms of I/O performance I think it will remain king for some time to come.

the parts being assembled together are the value here

I don't know if you noticed, but the video was speeded up a little. In actuality, it would take substantially longer.

@@johnjameshardy Just a Bit.

There were 5 people building this thing. Say each makes $200K, then since this bull runs 10years uninterrupted, no problems whatsoever, they need to charge $1M x 10 = $10M just to recover costs. Add a few bucks for profit for IBM and you get that $20M invoice. The 5 people then work at Five Guys the rest of the year for kicks;