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While industry pundits argue over what effect tablets are having on PC sales, companies like Dell continue to ship new models in the familiar tower form factor. Such is the case with Dell's new Precision T1600, a tower workstation that's now shipping to customers worldwide. Because it's a workstation, the components are geared more towards work (like AutoCAD) than play, and should you need to poke around inside, all the hardware comes wrapped in a tool-less chassis.
"The T1600 is for customers who use professional software applications such as AutoCAD or Pro/Engineer and need the performance and reliability that only a workstation with certified applications can offer," Dell stated in a blog post. "When customers upgrade to a workstation from a desktop or whitebox system, they will be surprised at the big increase in performance from professional grade graphics, processors, and ISV certifications for not a big increase in price."
Pricing starts at $829 (currently on sale for $629) for a basic setup, which includes an Intel Core i3 2100 processor (3.10GHz), 2GB DDR3-1333, Intel HD 2000 graphics, 250GB 7200RPM hard drive, and Windows 7 Professional 64-bit. Several upgrades are available if you're willing to spend more skrilla, including Xeon processors (up to a quad-core Xeon E3-1280 clocked at 3.5GHz), up to 16GB of RAM, up to dual Nvidia Quadro NVS 3000 or ATI FirePro 2270 videocards, larger hard drives configured in a RAID array, Blu-ray reader, and other upgrades.
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bowei006
April 11, 2011 at 5:30am
This computer is just sad. Intel2000 graphics im very hesitant to say will be able to run any CAD or graphical applications pretty well. and this computer cost them around $200. $100 or less for cpu since they bought in bulk. $30 motherboard with or without the B3 fix from china.2GB of ram...i don't even think they sell this anymore. newegg sells performance ram 8GB's 1600Mt/s for $80 so lets just say $10 or $15 since also bulk and no heat spreader..just bad glitchy bsod prone memory. and lastly. a hard drive thats the size of my 3 year old laptop's at a regular desktop speed..another $20 for them. now lets see. thats yeah. around less than $200 for parts. even if you include the 300w psu that costed them $20 from china and the crappy case and in no way shape or form is worth it even if you include the $80 monitor and the $120 oem windows they bought in bulk. As anyone from maximum pc is thinking. "i could build a quad core sandy bridge with 8Gb of ram, a 1tb hard drive, and pretty good 460+/5770+ graphics at that price point and hey even an ASUS mother board with a B3 fix also.
