BIMBoy puts HP's Z600 workstation to the test

摘要

Hewlett-Packard engineers have spent the last two and a half years designing and developing the Z series of workstation computers, whose 20 or so innovations include self-checking power supplies, Intel's Nehalem microprocessor architecture, and its new generation of Xeon processors.rnEven when the economic slump hit last summer, HP went ahead with the release of the Z series, in the belief that lean times would make upgrades and hardware efficiency even more valuable to architecture and engineering firms, not to mention such other customers as 3D animators and oil and gas explorers.