Fujitsu promises to deliver fastest gaming rig "on the planet"
By Donald Melanson 
posted July 24th 2009 6:38AM
posted July 24th 2009 6:38AM
Fujitsu may not be doing much talking about specifics just yet, but it sure is doing plenty of boasting about its now-in-development gaming desktop, which it says will be the "fastest rig on the planet." That, as you can see above, will be at least partly due to some fine "German ultra clocking," and partly due to Fujitsu's 30+ years of workstation experience -- not to mention some crazy fast components. Not much more to go on than that, unfortunately, but you can learn even less from Fujitsu's teaser video after the break.
[Thanks, Jacky]
[Thanks, Jacky]
My FIRST laptop was Fujitsu... I was not impressed at all... it was quite junk
you fail.
This is indeed massive fail.
@hug
I'm loving your comments history: you post shorter and shorter actual comments until you give up entirely and just post your spamtastic url.
Fujitsu? Did they just wake up from a long sleep.
Okay, what is the difference between Ultra Clocking and overclocking?
Um, An Adjective???
And how the fuck can you "develop" a desktop?!?
You just buy the parts and put them together.
And what does "hand selected components" mean? Does it mean that they turned off their automatic system designer for this one and had a human choose what would go into it? Or does it mean there is a hopper of CPUs and a technician carefully chooses each one, like choosing apples at the market, before placing it on the motherboard?
Germans.
The same difference between an Apple PC and any other PC: Marketing!
/puts on fire retardant clothing
If it's ultra best ever and what not you need to find a way to keep the liquid nitrogen and not get condensation damage andsoforth, so you could argue you need to develop a bit of a setup for that.
Because you know the Germans always make good stuff... Are you following me camera guy?
You'll be saying Wow everytime you use this computer.
I'm glad I wasn't the only person who immediately thought of that after seeing this slide.
Wow!
@FAPx3: you must be using this computer already
@bolmedias
A reasonable assumption! However, you should know that saying "Wow!" can have several etiologies. For instance, watching a high-speed police chase zoom by, while your ice cream cone smears against the window and falls to the floor. This will often be followed by an "Aw SHIT." It can also (and I would guess this is the reason in this particular case) be the end result of excessive fapping, although it usually takes more than three faps.
@Phrank
*BOOM*
OVERKILL
This is quite hilarious with the claims of "German" ULTRA clocking. This ridiculous branding of everything made in Germany as some grand engineering has gone too far. Now overclocking is magically ultraclocking if it's done by Germans?
Sacapuntas, overkillingly, verbosely and with excessive verbage and redundancy is uberprecisely, extraspecifically and teraexactly how I roll, bitches.
You're gonna love my nuts.
i laugh in your face..and so do the boys who own the amd twkr cpu's
Will it run Crysis?
Yes, and it will also blend, it can run Vista Aero, it's a copy of an Apple product, and it's FIRST.
I really hate Engadget users sometimes.
Yeah but will it run Line Rider ??
I hate myself sometimes.
when they say it is engineered in germany, does this mean that they derived this technology from Siemens?
Quite possibly, they are partner companies, after all.
Wow, it's done by the German, must be awesome... LOL.
I wan't to see the product on the market and the test results before I will slate Fujitsu.
Betcha its not faster then a whole heap of ps3's, alot of ducktape and some wiring.
and the second it gets outdated just slap another ps3 on the side
True, But I bet it has more ram :)
@Shane: You won't need to add another PS3 on for 10 years.
@David
Good luck finding RAM to keep up with XDR... QFT and GTFO PS3 is not as simple as the 360.
it will be the fastest gaming rig on the planet for all of 1 month before something else becomes faster and better. and no doubt cheaper.
Quick! Someone compare it to a Mac Pro with the same price!
German engineering. It's the best kind of engineering
Agreed, in a car. I'm quite happy to leave the IT department to the Asian / Far Eastern countries...they have enough Kudos as it is without having to bring the Germans on board. Either way, sounds like a waste of money.
We know Germans make good stuff.
Yes you certainly do...Claudia Schiffer and Heidi Klum are a good starter for 10!
will i have to take it to the dealer every thousand miles and pay a thousand bucks to get an oil change like my OTHER german engineered products? if so im game!!!
see what i did there at the end
@sam
you mean like every other car? your point makes no sense
Uh no,
The cost of maintenance is huge on a German Car vs an American or Japanese vehicle. It's a premium associated with the "prestige" of the vehicle. Often times the components used in the car are extremely complex and not readily available without importing. To give you an example....
My $40,000 (in 2004) convertible Cobra mustang cost 350 dollars to replace the ECU. In my GFs M3 BMW (similar price) it was over a 900. I did my own labor both times. Everything associated with luxury German brands is anywhere from slightly, to drastically more expensive. AC compressor is $900+ vs 250-300 for the American car.
However, these cars are targeted at people who either lease, or will trade it off once it goes out of warranty, it doesn't usually matter much. Their entry level cars don't impress me at all, you get all the expense with very few benefits, but if you buy one of their flagship models, they are unmatched in their precise balance of performance, luxury, and utility all with execution that only the Germans can do.
AMG Mercedes are the most amazing machines on the road imho (for a stock daily driver). The M series (not the 3) are equally defiant of the laws of physics.
So basically yes they cost more to own and maintain, but if you need a luxury car, that doubles as your personal road rocket, and can get your kids to soccer practice safely even if the other mom in her giant SUV smashes into you while on her cell phone, an M5 or E55 can't be beat (unless you get an SL-65, which is what erections are made of).
@tampa03cobra
Have you ever heard of a Lexus? Especially the flagship LS?
You should think before you write, because the Japanese easily matche and beat the Germans. (at a lower cost)
"My $40,000 (in 2004) convertible Cobra mustang cost 350 dollars to replace the ECU. In my GFs M3 BMW (similar price) it was over a 900. I did my own labor both times. Everything associated with luxury German brands is anywhere from slightly, to drastically more expensive. AC compressor is $900+ vs 250-300 for the American car. "
Sorry, did you mean to infer the M3 was $40k at some point? I'd venture to say the M3 to which you refer, cost more in the range of $55k-$70k depending on trim levels.
Your GF's M3 uses MANY super high performance parts and for the most part is hooked up to be on the track moreso than the street. The ECU is so expensive because they actually put WORK into how that ECU was configured unlike Ford who pays less money to engineer their cars. The springs, struts, brake rotors, clutch, transmission etc is FAR more advanced than anything in that Cobra Mustang.
It is all relative, but certainly not arbitrarily.
"best of the best hand selected components
from our low end suppliers!"
intel pentium 4
256 mb ram
10gb hard drive
32 mb integrated
AWWW YEA!!!
Entschuldigueng, Herr Fujitsu, aber koennen diesen Computer Crysis spielen? Also, koennen sie kombinieren (ich weiss es nicht das richtige Wort)?
Mischung?