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| Thread ID: 77144 | 2007-02-28 15:28:00 | workstation = desktop ? | newb. (10067) | Press F1 |
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| 528890 | 2007-03-01 02:58:00 | Seems it does cut either way if you go by this google search (www.google.co.nz). We can probably quite safely blame the marketing droids for blurring the distinction between a low end thin client slave and high end work PC. Though they both may be housed in a "workstation" meaning a top with a cable hole, sides and perhaps some drawers. |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 528891 | 2007-03-01 03:50:00 | If it uses an intel xeon it has to be classified as a work station. The mac pro's are and so are the equivelent dells |
plod (107) | ||
| 528892 | 2007-03-01 03:58:00 | Depending on the server setup and software licensing agreements per user there can be a lot of price variation between vendors. Not all server setups are expensive. Also different computer manufactures have hardware that is ideally suited to certain tasks which can be set up for a fairly reasonable price. | winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 528893 | 2007-03-01 04:31:00 | Graphics and so on are normally completely boring though. Then again same with workstations. Graphics might be "boring" but for a lot of designers out there they pay the bills and the mortgage each week. |
winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 528894 | 2007-03-01 06:36:00 | A workstation is any computer mainly used for business purposes. A desktop is a computer which is used primarily by individual users but is largely immovable. A server is used primarily to provide support services for a network (e.g. web server, email server, file server, database server etc). The lines are blurry. Servers tend to be the most expensive because they use faster, more reliable or simply uncommon technologies (e.g. high speed SCSI hard drives, error correcting RAM, removable hard drives). They also lack some of the economy of scale of desktop manufacturing. |
TGoddard (7263) | ||
| 528895 | 2007-03-01 06:45:00 | Heh, why even try and define a term that has be whored around by marketing "teams"?:badpc::badpc: Next should we debate the difference between a laptop and a notebook?:lol::lol: |
Metla (12) | ||
| 528896 | 2007-03-01 08:23:00 | Next should we debate the difference between a laptop and a notebook?:lol::lol: I wouldn't use one on my lap anymore after seeing what some of them have done lately with the dodgey batteries! :eek: :eek: :eek: |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 528897 | 2007-03-01 09:35:00 | I just invented the bellybook, | Metla (12) | ||
| 528898 | 2007-03-01 09:39:00 | arrrrrrrgggghhhhhhh...It burns it burns, and I think my belly hair has been snared by the intake fan on my bellybook, oh my god, the pain, the pain. | Metla (12) | ||
| 528899 | 2007-03-01 09:45:00 | Right, I just invented the footstation..... | Metla (12) | ||
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