Comments on: HP updates Z-series workstations with up to 512GB of RAM http://www.slashgear.com/hp-updates-z-series-workstations-with-up-to-512gb-of-ram-06216988/ Feeding Your Gadget and Tech Obsessions Tue, 08 May 2012 18:03:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Matti http://www.slashgear.com/hp-updates-z-series-workstations-with-up-to-512gb-of-ram-06216988/#comment-190754 Matti Tue, 06 Mar 2012 13:58:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=216988#comment-190754 I actually really like HP enterprise workstations. Quality is top-notch (unlike their consumer range) and their systems are extremely modular. Ventilation/cooling seems to be excellent as well.

Only reason I didn’t get one last year was because none of the
configurations included USB3  at the time, but a couple of acquaintances
run mid-spec Z-series rigs and love em.

Being enterprise-ready, most of the configurations are also extremely Open Source OS friendly. Almost everything works out-of-the-box on Linux or BSD distributions with open-source drivers. Only the Nvidia cards require proprietary drivers/blobs which are easily downloadable for these operating systems.

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