Sometimes it's hard to embrace being a '90s kid. Parachute pants, double denim, jackets that look like the interior of a route bus, PCs and cell phones carried in huge carry-on cases; sometimes the PC itself was the carry-on case. But there is good news. These PCs never died.

For example, this portable AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X workstation, which also comes with a screen, folds into a black briefcase.

Picture this: you sit in a meeting alongside your colleagues. They pull out Surfaces, iPads, cell phones, and more. You place your briefcase on the table with a deafening thud. Everyone turns to look at you. You uncork the kettle and look around for an outlet. Oh, there it is. Jill is in the way. You politely ask Jill to step aside so you can plug in the computer. She quickly leaves. The room is completely silent. I plug in the kettle to the computer and start up the machine. The only sounds you can hear now are the multiple fans spinning.

This could be yours for only $7,997. And if you don't get promoted to CEO within a week, you get your money back.

Found on Reddit (via Tom's Hardware), Mediaworkstations offers this PC with a full range of GeForce graphics cards, selectable up to RTX 2080 Ti. A dual EPYC CPU version is also available, priced at just under $10,000.

In any case, a GPU is not a requirement: the 64-core/128-thread 3990X can run Crysis without a dedicated GPU.

Now, there is at least one discrepancy on the media workstation page. The motherboard listed is an ASRock Taichi X399M, not the TRX40 motherboard required for 3rd generation Threadripper machines. Therefore, our Alan believes that the whole thing does not actually exist.

The fact that such a PC is in many ways a relic of a bygone era does not help. But this system is for media. Not the kind of content production, perhaps, but the kind of ultra-high-performance, on-the-fly cinematic media that will replace desktop PCs.

The website is full of examples of such types of success, such as the CG artists on "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare" and the visual effects artists on "Star Wars: The Phantom Menace." [But you might not want to take my word for it. That is not a very good sign. We called the company to double-check, and even though it was 7:45 a.m., the voicemail confirmed that the call was from a company called Mediaworkstations.

Glad we were able to resolve this matter...