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To: N3WBI3

“Precision” is Dell’s professional workstation line, including laptops. You might have noticed the price for this one is just shy of $5,000.


19 posted on 04/19/2007 10:26:00 AM PDT by Golden Eagle
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To: Golden Eagle

At home: Dell Precision M90

Hardware:

  • Intel Core 2 Duo T7600 Processor
  • 4GB DDR2 667Mhz DRAM
  • 17" WXGA+ Widescreen LCD
  • 160GB 7200rpm SATA hard drive
  • 8X DVD +/- RW optical drive
  • NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500 512MB

Software:

  • Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn
  • VMWare Workstation 6 Beta
  • OpenOffice.org 2.2
  • Automatix2
  • Firefox 2.0.0.3
  • Evolution Groupware 2.10

    They can call it what they want, its a laptop. As to the price, notice the XPS line is under desktops:

    These go upwards of 4k. The line between desktop and workstation is nothing but a branding cliche in todays world. The day of the spark workstation vs the 486 windows95 box is done.

    From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workstation

    Workstation Class PCs

    A significant segment of the desktop market are computers expected to perform as workstations, but using PC operating systems and components. PC component manufacturers will often segment their product line, and market premium components which are functionally similar to the cheaper "consumer" models but feature a higher level of robustness and/or performance. Notable examples of this are the Xeon and Opteron CPUs, and the Quadro line of video processors.

    A workstation class PC may have some of the following features:


    * support for ECC memory
    * a larger number of memory sockets which use registered (buffered) modules
    * multiple processors
    * multiple displays
    * run a "business" or "professional" operating system version


27 posted on 04/19/2007 11:12:01 AM PDT by N3WBI3 (Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak....)
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