The company that created one of the craziest portable workstations we've ever seen disappeared just months after dazzling the world with its latest offering.
A-X2P by MediaWorkstation It promised a staggering six screens which aren't exactly a laptop or mobile workstation, but are a real powerhouse nonetheless. This model featured two AMD EPYC Genoa Zen 4 CPUs, each with 96 cores, along with up to 3TB of DDR5 RAM.
The machine also supported up to two full-size GPUs or accelerators, an M.2 NVMe boost SSD, and five storage drives, all powered by a supply unit believed to be around 2 kW and cooled by six fans.
Multi-screen madness
Although this machine looked real, MediaWorkstation has since been shut down and its site is no longer available at the time of writing. This likely signals the end of their line of extremely powerful portable workstations.
MediaWorkstation is not the only technology company that has dabbled in creating multi-screen machines that have disappeared from the face of the planet in recent weeks.
The Aurora 7 concept workstation, built by British developer Expanscape, featured four central 17.3-inch 4K displays along with two additional seven-inch 1200p monitors and another seven-inch 1200p touchscreen to the right of the touchpad. Of the device.
But sadly, that device will never come to market after the company dissolved in November 2023, according to Companies House, five years after it formed and two years after introducing its seven-screen proof-of-concept laptop.
It comes as a Canadian startup, Portable Monitor, unveiled at CES 2024 its portable monitor device that could connect to your laptop to augment it with four additional 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 along with 64 GB of DDR4 RAM. It also included an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060, meaning it was certainly suitable for heavy workloads.
