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Comments on: Start-up rolls out meaty desktop cluster

Want! 

Posted Thursday 8th November 2007 12:44 GMT

I dont know If I can use one, I realy dont need one, but I want my boss to buy me one NOW! Imagin having one of those beside your desk, if only to anoy everyone in the office who thinks there laptop is the mutts.

The only failing I can see is that academics acroos the world will be the first to have them, sat in there offices. As anyone who has been in a computing or engineering dept at ani Uni will tell you, this is not exactly a clutter free space. I bet we see a few frying themself's because they have no ventalation under two feet of paper and books that will be stacked on them.

Could generate a lot of heat 

Posted Thursday 8th November 2007 18:29 GMT

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From the website, the maximum amount of power coming from them is 3600 watts. Not including the monitor.

Hey, you fry (or grill) your breakfast on it too!

A worthy Vista machine 

Posted Friday 9th November 2007 00:15 GMT

Joke

Finally a machine that can run Vista at a decent speed.

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