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  • ingwe - Thursday, March 9, 2023 - link

    Looks like it will cost as much as an Aston Martin...
  • PeachNCream - Friday, March 10, 2023 - link

    Its just hocking brand identities to land sales for people that are too stupid to see through the marketing garbage. There are absolutely people like that though so if it cost less in terms of rounding up the companies than it returns in sales, its a win for Lenovo to go gimmicky.
  • meacupla - Thursday, March 9, 2023 - link

    Honestly, it doesn't look bad, both on the inside and outside.
  • Samus - Thursday, March 9, 2023 - link

    These have always been good workstations, but Dell Precision and HP Z are better. Lenovo is cheap and you get what you pay for.
  • lmcd - Friday, March 10, 2023 - link

    SuperMicro is moving into this space too -- really doesn't feel like there's room for Lenovo at the bottom.
  • Samus - Monday, March 13, 2023 - link

    Yeah, I'm happy to see Supermicro returning to workstations after seemingly spending the last decade focused on servers.
  • Sivar - Thursday, March 9, 2023 - link

    Isn't Lenovo the company that installed "Superfish" spyware by default, leaving _every single website_ (banking, social media, Gmail) vulnerable to an undetectable attack?
    When this was discovered, and the spyware key was broken by Errata Security, Lenovo's official stance was:
    "We have thoroughly investigated this technology and do not find any evidence to substantiate security concerns."

    No thanks.
  • lorribot - Sunday, March 12, 2023 - link

    If you buy a pre-built and don't immediate install a vanilla copy of the OS of your choice then frankly you get what you pay for, lots of VD and detritus sprawlled around.
    All of these systems will be used in companies and I would expect they would have corporate image put on them like any other corporate Lenovo device that has all the MS VD removed as well.
  • ballsystemlord - Thursday, March 9, 2023 - link

    If the highest end Intel parts only have 56 cores per CPU, how do we get 120 cores with 2 CPUs?
    I know Intel can make bigger CPUs if they wanted to, but I thought those had been canceled.
  • DVDxR - Thursday, March 9, 2023 - link

    Intel Xeon Platinum 8490H Processor (112.5M Cache, 1.90 GHz) has 60 cores.
  • Kevin G - Thursday, March 9, 2023 - link

    Xeon W tops out at 56 cores but the full fledged Xeon Scalable goes to 60 cores and supports dual sockets. So the 120 figure is split across two sockets.
  • Dante Verizon - Thursday, March 9, 2023 - link

    1850W ? How ?
  • ballsystemlord - Thursday, March 9, 2023 - link

    Your question is not precise. Are you asking how they have 1850W PSUs, or how the power draw of the system is so high? I'll answer both.

    1: Probably a server PSU.
    2: Nvidia GPUs and Intel CPUs are power hungry.
  • Dante Verizon - Friday, March 10, 2023 - link

    My surprise is that they think this power supply is enough.
  • ballsystemlord - Friday, March 10, 2023 - link

    For 2x CPUs and 4x GPUs that gives each device about 308W. I agree that the power supply is really close to the minimum size.
  • ballsystemlord - Friday, March 10, 2023 - link

    Of course, I'm ignoring the rest of the components in my calculation above.
  • A5 - Friday, March 10, 2023 - link

    I guess you can afford a 20A wall plug if you spend 20k on a workstation :-p
  • twtech - Saturday, March 11, 2023 - link

    Maybe - hard to guarantee that if your employees work from home though, unless you also pay for an electrician's visit for each person.
  • mode_13h - Monday, March 13, 2023 - link

    When I work from home, I use servers physically located in the office. The machines in my home already put out more than enough heat, during the summer months, and they're nothing exotic.

    If I would be forced to use a 1.8 kW machine from home, I'd have to put it in the basement (noise) and be subsidized for electricity to power it and for air conditioning.
  • wr3zzz - Friday, March 10, 2023 - link

    I've always wondered how much do supercar companies charge PC/phone companies for basically putting racing stripe on a box?
  • PeachNCream - Friday, March 10, 2023 - link

    Who knows, but a lot of computer nerds also think of themselves as car people so the combination tends to work out well for selling that group crap they would otherwise not purchase or buy elsewhere.
  • mode_13h - Saturday, March 11, 2023 - link

    Wow, I figured at least Aston Martin would know a thing or two about radiators. However, they seem to be entirely air-cooled. Lame.
  • twtech - Saturday, March 11, 2023 - link

    I wonder what companies would be willing to pay a premium for having Aston Martin on their company's workstations?
  • Foeketijn - Friday, March 24, 2023 - link

    Don't think the markup will be high. If you can choose a dull black monster on all your desks, or a more joyfull black monster with a red stripe on it. I'd take the less dull option.
  • mode_13h - Monday, March 13, 2023 - link

    BTW, I'm a little surprised there haven't been any comments about F1, given how well Aston Martin did in the 2023's inaugural race, last weekend. Suffice it to say: the partnership seems timely.

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