Hands on: My hands-on experience of the Asus Ascent GX10 was a radical one that is only relevant to those actively engaged in AI development

While this might be wonderful for localised AI development, using it for anything else might be challenging. And, should the AI wind direction change, it might find itself largely redundant. However, Asus did an excellent job of engineering on the GX10.

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  Unprecedented AI power

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  128GB of LPDDR5x RAM

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  200Gbps interconnect and 10GbE LAN

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  No USB Type-A or USB4 ports

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  Only a single 2242 M.2 slot for internal storage

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  Other than storage, it's not internally upgradable

Rather than a review, this is a ‘hands-on’ in which I’ve explored what the Asus Ascent GX10 offers, providing information that might be critical to those considering purchasing one.

The first important piece of information about this hardware is that this isn’t a PC, or rather, it's not an Intel, AMD or X86-compliant platform that can run Windows.

It’s built around ARM technology, much like modern phones and tablets ...