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Mac Pro with 3 cpu slots.
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AidenShaw
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$46,719.00 with 45 2.8 GHz cores, 192 GiB RAM and an 800GB SSD
( http://h71016.www7.hp.com/MiddleFra...=3771&BaseId=43473&oi=E9CED&BEID=19701&SBLID= )
Sounds like the Apple store prices alright 😉
I think the highest I have done on the apple store was much lower than that. If they did something similar it would be close though I think.
monokakata
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AidenShaw
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Happy that you're having fun at the HP store....
You don't need to buy the optical drive - there's an option to enable a BIOS feature to support virtual DVD drives.
At the BIOS level (or the management web page that talks to the BIOS-level management web server - yes, the firmware has a network port and a web-based management server), you type in the URL of an .ISO file.
When you do this, the OS (if running) or BIOS (if booting) sees a DVD disc inserted into a USB DVD drive. It eliminates the primitive steps of downloading the .ISO, burning a disc, and inserting it - just give the BIOS the URL.
The web server is also the KVM - the system Keyboard/Video/Mouse can be accessed through the browser. (Even on an Apple or phone.)
monokakata
macrumors 68020
I just thought it was amusing (about no optical drive).
I've got servers on my mind, because I moved my old AlphaServer DS10 out here, started it up once and it was fine, put it away for a few months and then when I wanted it again, it wouldn't boot.
I have 3 SCSI disks in it and two of them are bootable. The disk currently set at the boot disk seems to have failed.
I mention this because -- as in my optical drive comment -- I no longer have any way to get onto the boot sequence and change the boot ID to a drive that should work. I can only do that via the console port, DB9 RS232. I don't have a terminal. I don't have a PC that I can borrow a USB-RS232 stick for. I don't have a PC with a serial port.
I don't have any way to talk to my DS10 -- I'm locked out.
Sure wish I had firmware with a network port!
I'm going to have to go down to the local used computer store and see if I can scare up a terminal (but what are the odds that in little Hilo I'll find a DEC terminal) or failing that, an old laptop with a DB9 port. I have a CD with my favorite terminal emulator (Hummingbird) and if I could find something to run it on, I'd be good.
Ugh.
I've got servers on my mind, because I moved my old AlphaServer DS10 out here, started it up once and it was fine, put it away for a few months and then when I wanted it again, it wouldn't boot.
I have 3 SCSI disks in it and two of them are bootable. The disk currently set at the boot disk seems to have failed.
I mention this because -- as in my optical drive comment -- I no longer have any way to get onto the boot sequence and change the boot ID to a drive that should work. I can only do that via the console port, DB9 RS232. I don't have a terminal. I don't have a PC that I can borrow a USB-RS232 stick for. I don't have a PC with a serial port.
I don't have any way to talk to my DS10 -- I'm locked out.
Sure wish I had firmware with a network port!
I'm going to have to go down to the local used computer store and see if I can scare up a terminal (but what are the odds that in little Hilo I'll find a DEC terminal) or failing that, an old laptop with a DB9 port. I have a CD with my favorite terminal emulator (Hummingbird) and if I could find something to run it on, I'd be good.
Ugh.
Also with 3 cpu slots they could probably put on 3 times the ports. One front panel per pcb. Anyone in favor of 18 ThunderBolt ports?
Now I am waiting for someone to moan about how they can fit 126 internal drives in their old mac pro tower while the new one needs so much external and cables.
