My next laptop (seriously - why?)

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Its the EUROCOM panther  4.0
12.1 lbs of 17" goodness, in a case that hearkens back to the glory days of the 90s.
You can slap in 4 (count them! 4!) hard drives, and by the way, its about infinitely upgrade-able, but starts at around $2.5K

Snark aside, I am kinda baffled - why would I want this?  About the only reason I can think of is that I'm going to end up somewhere without a (functional) network connection, and don't have access to well, any of the cloud services that I use.

Then again, maybe its aimed at folks in the DoD?  Security restrictions, etc.?

Puzzled...

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