I have 4 T7500s sitting the office with me, sadly just dual dual-cores in them so with HT 8. Seem nice enough. It looks like they use a PSU with a softbreaker in them which bothers me a lot.
I find it laughable that they designed the case for the 7500 and then included a metal foot because the case rocks on its own and isn't stable one bit. I wish these things didn't weigh 75 pounds though.
Dell really came out strong this SIGGRAPH and having never owned a Dell and only spend time fixing other people's, they immediatly got my attention with their workstation line up.
While you can build this powerful of computers for cheaper (good luck on the laptop) you want systems like these in a professional environment so you know good support is on the line and easily accessible. Knowing you can get broken parts replaced very quickly is a huge advantage for production critical hardware.
$7.8k not including shipping or tax. I'll take a beastly desktop for that cost.
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Straight_ManGeeky, in my own wayNaples, FLIcrontian
edited August 2010
Being more a general user rather than a specialist graphics person, I opted for a Dell XPS laptop for my most recent computer. This is a quite capable computer in its own right. It has a dual core Intel 2.8 GHz Extreme chip in it, but the machine never gets too hot because the exhaust fan is quite capable of handling the heat and air flow from tiny vents in its bottom (it is elevated on four feet and the tinyness of each vent hole keeps dust from coming in the vent holes). It also has a mini-card mounted NVidia graphics chip and DDR3 GRAM in it. The LED decorations it came with got turned off first thing, thought I admit to being tempted to play with the LED color controls in its bios. As to comm, it can do wi-fi and also wired networking. I opted for the 500 GB SATA hd option. It cost me about $3K on sale when I bought it about a year ago from some money saved up for this kind of
While you can build this powerful of computers for cheaper (good luck on the laptop) you want systems like these in a professional environment so you know good support is on the line and easily accessible. Knowing you can get broken parts replaced very quickly is a huge advantage for production critical hardware.
I use a Dell Precision T3400 at work and at the time I could've built twice the machine for what we paid through our hub vendor. The only reasons we have the Dells are due to OEM support and the requirement to use the hub vendor.
Don't get me wrong, it's a nice machine and beats the pants off the Optiplexes my poor neighbors use, but when a power supply blows out it still takes two weeks to get replaced regardless of who made the machine. The Dell advantage is that we can afford to have a stack of computers so if one fries we can take another off the top of the pile, hand it to the user, and deal with support for the two weeks it takes to get the faulty one replaced.
As for laptops, Lenovo has the same gig going for their Thinkpad W-series workstation models. If I'm fronting that kind of dosh Lenovo's support beats the pants off of Dell's any day of the week.
Two weeks to replace the hardware Drasnor? Yikes, HP's workstation division got us new PSU's and GPU's the next day at the last place I worked. They shipped us new units most of the time before our bad units were even in the mail headed back to them.
In my previous job we used to do some Dell Next Business Day service calls for their commercial accounts, some of them being 1-of banks and small local businesses, so I know they CAN get service moving but I'm sure NBD service is not cheap.
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I find it laughable that they designed the case for the 7500 and then included a metal foot because the case rocks on its own and isn't stable one bit. I wish these things didn't weigh 75 pounds though.
While you can build this powerful of computers for cheaper (good luck on the laptop) you want systems like these in a professional environment so you know good support is on the line and easily accessible. Knowing you can get broken parts replaced very quickly is a huge advantage for production critical hardware.
$7.8k not including shipping or tax. I'll take a beastly desktop for that cost.
Don't get me wrong, it's a nice machine and beats the pants off the Optiplexes my poor neighbors use, but when a power supply blows out it still takes two weeks to get replaced regardless of who made the machine. The Dell advantage is that we can afford to have a stack of computers so if one fries we can take another off the top of the pile, hand it to the user, and deal with support for the two weeks it takes to get the faulty one replaced.
As for laptops, Lenovo has the same gig going for their Thinkpad W-series workstation models. If I'm fronting that kind of dosh Lenovo's support beats the pants off of Dell's any day of the week.