Those that need, portable workstation's can exceed $15K. If people are working remotely in the field where critical decisions need to be made, the cost is more than validated. In my industry such price points are not uncommon as such hardware can determine expenditure in the millions. ThinkPad P53 will be in contest with the likes of Dell's Precision etc.
Such hardware is aimed at corporate customers, private businesses that have mission critical applications, stringent requirement's for data quality & data accuracy. Here Zeon processors, EEC RAM, security and shielding all costs. The other aspect is global onsite support.
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