HP 820 Tower - RED EDITION

[Christian Edwards]

http://www.fusionio.com/press-releas...-workstations/

Fusion-io to Integrate ioFX Acceleration Into HP Z Workstations

[L. Langer]

They just announced 1.6 TB ioFX cards today as well.

[Rick Augustus]

Where are my amazing friends at Apple with a new Mac Pro tower at a time like this. LOL...

[Frank Cueto]

Well. I got an email from apple letting me know that they release their most powerful iMac ever :P

[David Kuhn]

So I hope I'm not re-asking a question posed in one of the 50 pages (!!) on this thread... but I've already got a couple Z820's, can I order the slick RED integrated hardware separately?

[David Kuhn]

What amazes me is that we are stuck with only two poor options. What happened to a version of Unix like Linix? Why can't someone come out with a new OS that is built just for high end graphics the way SGI or SUN used to do? I would go with PC hardware but I don't want to deal with Microsoft and Windows ever again. I built PC's for gaming while my kids were growing up and they are real performers but very troublesome because of Windows - albeit that was with XP. Maybe the newer versions are more stable? Apple really did so much for the graphics, photography and movie world - it's a shame that they put it on the back burner now.

Windows has been very stable since the later versions of XP... I've got machines I've not rebooted in years (something the Linux gang used to crow about). The problem with a viable competitor to Windows and OSX is that Operating Systems are REALLY complicated beasts, just look at the gyrations Android is going through as it matures (and that's just a phone OS). There are some pretty huge barriers to entry for any manufacturer ... to the point that only a giant corporation (or a country - like China) could contemplate a serious foray. Linux has continuously improved but they've still not gotten it to the point that it's easy enough for a non-techie to use that it provides a compelling user experience (though some techies will tell you different... they're lying ;-)) Anyway... these days if you buy (don't build) a PC from a reputable vendor it will be no more troublesome than a MAC, and the top tier PC vendors have comparable reliability to Apple. Just keep this in mind... PC fanatics will tell you that PC's are cheaper than Mac's... but if you get a GOOD PC from a good vendor it will not be much cheaper (if at all). If you want reliable high performance it will cost you regardless the Operating System. I paid $10k for my last (non-Red version sadly) Z820... the HP laptop I'm typing on ran $6k (Apple doesn't make anything comparable to either of these machines).