HP releases mother of all Workstations
Father of all lies rejoices
MAKER OF JOLLY-EXPENSIVE printer ink, HP has released what
its spinners are calling the 'mother of all workstations'.
We are not sure that if it means that the thing breeds or not as this was not on
the press release that HP gave us.
We expect Freud would have a field day with the way that HP describes its 'mother' too. Firstly it hasn't got a name, it has a number, the HP XW8600 Workstation. It means that the outfit is unable to connect to its mother, and therefore is unable to communicate properly with it.
Inside are two quad-core Xeon Intel processors and enhanced graphics with 2D or 3D Nvidia graphics cards carrying memory between 256M bytes and 512M bytes.
HP thinks that its mother will want to share 3d images between different locations with games developers.
She will have storage capacity of 5T bytes on five hard drives and will run Vista or Red Hat Linux.
Mother comes with two-dimension Nvidia Quadro NVS290 graphics card and three-dimension Nvidia Quadro FX370, Nvidia Quadro FX570, Nvidia Quadro FX1700, Nvidia Quadro FX 4600 and Nvidia Quadro FX5600 graphics cards.
The can work with multiple monitors and they will set you back US$1,200. They will ship in mid-December, so it is less about buying your mother some for Christmas so much as just buying mother.
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Comments
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Slow VNU mission creeping in then eh, now it's just plain ads without much disguise you are forced to put out as 'articles', sad, very sad.Weak..
Only 2 physical CPU's ?? Sound kind of weak given their naming.. Mother/Father of all bombs comes to mind..I was expecting something with 8 CPU's, loads of ram and workstation graphic cards possibly in SLI =)