Dell Launches New Entry-Level and Rack-Mountable Workstations
“Workstation performance for about the price of a desktop” — That’s how Dell pitches its new entry-level workstation T1700.
The new unit is available in small form factor and mini-tower configurations. They’ll be powered by Intel Xeon processor E3-1200 v3, based on Intel’s next-generation Haswell architecture. The chip maker is heavily promoting Haswell as the technology to increase power efficiency. GPU options for the T1700 includes AMD FirePro and NVIDIA Quadro cards. According to Dell, the T1700 is “industry’s smallest entry-level tower workstation.” Continue reading
Dell Gets Ready to Go Private: What Does it Mean for Professional Workstation Users?
The PC market is dominated by just a handful of major players. It’s literally a single hand, as five brands — Dell, HP, Lenovo, Acer, and ASUS — account for 58.9% market share (“Gartner and IDC: PC shipments tumbled…,” October 10, 2012, engadget). The rest is made up by specialty brands. Naturally, in such a tight market, a major strategy shift by one of the Big Five is bound to produce ripple effects.
Last week, publicly traded Dell began taking steps to go private — an option the company’s founder, chairman, and CEO Michael Dell described as “an exciting new chapter for Dell” in a press release. According to the company, Dell has “signed a definitive merger agreement under which Michael Dell, … in partnership with global technology investment firm Silver Lake, will acquire Dell” in a $24.4 billion transaction. Continue reading
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New Dell Workstations with NVIDIA Maximus Dual-GPU Architecture
The old client-server computing model seems to be coming back, but with some new twists.
The new Dell Precision T7600 tower workstation, part of the company’s workstation lineup released in mid-April, features a PC-over-IP option, delivered via what Dell calls “a true zero-client communication solution.” The idea is to let you keep the workstation in a server room elsewhere while you work with just a keyboard, a mouse, and a display panel plugged into the client device, dubbed FX100. Continue reading
DE Contest Winner Norwood: Life with a New Dell Precision Workstation with AMD FirePro Graphics
Mark Norwood from Norwood Designs, winner of DE‘s cubicle toy design contest, is no longer spending 18 hours rendering. Previously, he would hit “render” in his program, go to bed, then wake up to find that his machine was still chugging away at his pixels. But the new Dell Precision workstation with AMD FirePro graphics — the prize he collected for his water-spraying Sherman tank — reduced the rendering jobs to merely hours. Continue reading
Jon Peddie Research: Workstation Market Shows Return of Momentum
Jon Peddie Research (JPR), which publishes a number of market reports, observed, “From mid-2008 to mid-2011, we lived through the biggest economic downturn in a generation, followed by a relatively steady, but not stutter-free, recovery.” But when it tallied up the latest numbers for workstations, it saw some signs of a return to normalcy.
Releasing its Q3 2011 Workstation Report, JPR said, “The neither hot nor cold results from the workstation market’s second quarter might not elicit any celebration, but we imagine they at least calmed some still-frayed nerves.” Continue reading
