Elsewhere in the catalogue, I found this:

   HP ProLiant DL160 G5p
   1x 2.0 GHz Quad-Core Xeon E5405
   4GB RAM (16GB max)
   4 SATA bays (not hot-swap)
   1x 160GB SATA drive


Now I don't know about you, but 8 Xeon cores in a rack-mount server for 

about twice that price! (Although it does have hot-swap bays and a few 
percent higher clock speed.)

Some of the HP stuff is expandable up to stupid figures like 144GB RAM. 
I have no idea who the hell needs 144GB of RAM, but I'm not one of them 
(yet). Most of the desktop systems have 1GB of RAM, which seems a little 
tight for running Vista. (A few of the pricey ones have 2GB, but nothing 
higher except in "workstations" and "servers".)

Interestingly, almost nothing listed has multiple processors. I guess 
that's more a reflection of which products they choose to list in the 
catelogue; it's not a complete listing, only a sampling.

Also interesting is that the HP stuff tends to give you by far the most 


for HP only making over-prived "premium" stuff...

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