I am glad they are refreshing that line, I have a 1540 that I use as 24*7 home lab support server running oVirt. Yet I wish they'd offer them at Ryzen prices, because they really aren't all that different: Instead of wasting half of the silicon real estate on an iGPU that nobody wants, the double the core count: You shouldn't charge extra just for being sensible...
At least those Xeon-E premiums have pretty much disappeared and I just wish ECC support became standard again on all SKUs, instead of being fused off.
Can't help thinking that parity was standard on the 1980 IBM-PC...
Actually I'd love someone using a H-class (35 Watt) or mid range gaming laptop chassis to produce a port-a-serv rig that includes the KVM (laptop screen) and a UPS (laptop battery) with this 10Gbit ports ready to stream out compute and data from 2-4 NVMe devices...
Would be a wonderful setup for field gigs, trade show demos, labs etc. and doesn't take a lot of grounds up engineering and premium pricing to do... I think.
Sorry to keep babbling, but just imagine the 3-node oVirt Gluster cluster using that notebook form factor: That's small enough to even fit into your run-of-the-mill space station!
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abufrejoval - Tuesday, April 2, 2019 - link
I am glad they are refreshing that line, I have a 1540 that I use as 24*7 home lab support server running oVirt. Yet I wish they'd offer them at Ryzen prices, because they really aren't all that different: Instead of wasting half of the silicon real estate on an iGPU that nobody wants, the double the core count: You shouldn't charge extra just for being sensible...At least those Xeon-E premiums have pretty much disappeared and I just wish ECC support became standard again on all SKUs, instead of being fused off.
Can't help thinking that parity was standard on the 1980 IBM-PC...
abufrejoval - Tuesday, April 2, 2019 - link
Actually I'd love someone using a H-class (35 Watt) or mid range gaming laptop chassis to produce a port-a-serv rig that includes the KVM (laptop screen) and a UPS (laptop battery) with this 10Gbit ports ready to stream out compute and data from 2-4 NVMe devices...Would be a wonderful setup for field gigs, trade show demos, labs etc. and doesn't take a lot of grounds up engineering and premium pricing to do... I think.
abufrejoval - Tuesday, April 2, 2019 - link
Sorry to keep babbling, but just imagine the 3-node oVirt Gluster cluster using that notebook form factor: That's small enough to even fit into your run-of-the-mill space station!s.yu - Tuesday, April 9, 2019 - link
The title made me laugh, I read it as the D1600 upgrading to D1500.wyewye - Thursday, April 11, 2019 - link
Wow, Intel is selling Broadwell in 2019. I guess they are truly dying.Supercell99 - Thursday, April 18, 2019 - link
$750 for an 8 core processor is absurd. Intel is a joke