By Desire Athow
The global PC market for consumers has moved on from desktops to laptops, but professionals are still mostly clinging to desktop computers because, historically, they have been far more powerful than their portable counterparts.
Over the past few years though, the tables have turned with mobile workstations becoming more and more powerful as component manufacturers focus their R&D efforts on designing small, power-sipping parts that can be used both on laptops and desktops.
In the world of mobile powerhouses, there are only two big players outside of the usual household names (Lenovo, HP, Dell, MSI etc) and both are relatively unknown to the wider community. Quanta and Clevo are both based in Taiwan and account for almost all of the mobile workstations sold globally.
So it is not surprising that Eurocom, one of the few mobile workstation vendors, is using a Clevo platform (likely to be the P751DM2-G) for its latest portable, the Sky X4E2.
Eurocom is based in Canada but has partnered with a Czech outfit, Goldmax, to provide EU-based support to its customers on this side of the Atlantic.
The X4E2 is a beast and reminds us of the PC Specialist Octane II Pro, albeit in a 15.6-inch form factor. It …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac