Comments on: New Dell Precision workstations review: first look

By: Christopher

Christopher — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 03:47:30 +0000

I have the T7500, and an XPS, and night be buying one of these. Expensive, but powerful.

By: Rudy

Rudy — Tue, 22 May 2012 15:14:57 +0000

The T7600 looks like Dell’s answer to the HP Z820. Both workstations might have underpowered power supplies for those who wish to add the new Kepler GPUs along with a high-end graphics card. It also would be interesting to know if these machines will support the forthcoming Intel MIC cards for CPU expansion. Overall, the compact design is a welcome contrast to the big server chassis offered by Intel or Supermicro for comparably equipped workstations.

By: Gindylow

Gindylow — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:39:49 +0000

As a T3500 owner having just upgraded from a T3400 I have to say I find Dell’s Workstations offer a kind of quality hard to find in consumer models.

One downside of their build quality can be their sheer weight, not the easiest things to lift around, remember the old 21″ CRT’s?

The spacing of the ranges is great too, with a model to suit all requirements right up to the top end machines probably best suited to top flight specifying work for Architechts, engineers, and the like.

I saw by coincidence that the Royal Marsdeb Hospital use a T3500 to control their Laser Knife Robot arm for invasive surgery as per a recent TV broadcast on curing cancer.

By: Justin Bennett

Justin Bennett — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:11:06 +0000

I’ve got a T7400 and had a T7500 for some time. I’d definitely like to get one of these for heavy data processing & development, they pay for themselves normally within a month of recovered time and keep on paying back.

I’ve flatlined an 8 core/24GB T7500 for 40 minutes at a time doing complex ETL work, so doubling up would save a lot of time, or allow parallel working whilst ETL work runs.

By: SirRoderickSpode

SirRoderickSpode — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 20:24:15 +0000

It seems that Dell are saying, “Well Apple, if you don’t want to produce the Mac Pro anymore, we’ll take those customers, thank you very much.”

I don’t have a need for one but it’s still interesting to see what the cutting edge looks like. Consumer devives have reached the point where middle of the road or even low end is good enough for most people’s purposes.

In a similar vein to the American obsession with cubic inches being the measure of an engine, I like to see what the true muscle cars of the computer industry look like.