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Hey, check it out. On the front page of the latest Insight UK catalogue,
USB Flash Drive.
Wow. 8MB. Now I'm wondering if that's a typo, or if they really are
giving away tiny flash drives...
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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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Invisible wrote:
> 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
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> Now I don't know about you, but 8 Xeon cores in a rack-mount server for
Congratulations. You can't count.
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Invisible wrote:
> Hey, check it out. On the front page of the latest Insight UK catalogue,
> USB Flash Drive.
>
> Wow. 8MB. Now I'm wondering if that's a typo, or if they really are
> giving away tiny flash drives...
Ah. On page 200 the offer is repeated, except that this time they claim
it's an 8GB stick.
So yeah, it's a typo.
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My mind is blown.
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Invisible wrote:
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> My mind is blown.
...which is *almost* topped by this:
In this case, I suspect it's simply supply and demand. Fewer people buy
Basic, so it's more expensive.
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Invisible wrote:
> ...which is *almost* topped by this:
>
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> In this case, I suspect it's simply supply and demand. Fewer people buy
> Basic, so it's more expensive.
Similar weirdness with various M$ products. (E.g., SQL Server for 1 user
Hyper-V than without it. And so on.)
Man, it's weird out there...
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Invisible wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
>
>> 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
>
> Congratulations. You can't count.
Talking to oneself is generally the first sign of insanity.
--
~Mike
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>> Congratulations. You can't count.
>
> Talking to oneself is generally the first sign of insanity.
...or just having really, really few other people to talk to?
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Invisible schrieb:
>>> Congratulations. You can't count.
>>
>> Talking to oneself is generally the first sign of insanity.
>
> ...or just having really, really few other people to talk to?
I wonder whether there's any difference.
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