Looking for the next Power system beyond Apple and Sony is something I believe all the YDL community would be interested in. I found something quite amazing within an acceptable consumer grade price range (from under $2,000 to $3,000) and which is available as various laptops. That is not what is really amazing, after all laptops as they are all running Intel are nearly almost all the same in their processing capabilities, operating systems and so on, right?
Well, imagine my surprise when I discovered that there does exist one American company,
V3, which produces desktop systems
and laptops available in the consumer marketplace which if one runs YDL for CUDA on their system will have
direct access to 300+, almost 400 - CUDA cores without blocks, filters or anything else!! V3's systems are optimized for gaming but running YDL for CUDA will allow skilled professionals and determined hobbyists to harness and direct these cores towards their own projects.
You can examine for yourself
here that the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M is the a member of the
NVIDIA Fermi class.