HP Compaq announces dc5850 and dx2450 Business Desktops

Remember those AMD Business Class desktops we told you about, oh, just hours ago? Looks like the first of the family are starting to roll out, beginning with the HP Compaq dc5850 and dx2450 Business Desktop PCs. Both rigs support "next-generation AMD Business Class processors" (that's the Athlon X2, Phenom X3 and Phenom X4) along with the usual complement of slots / ports, and while the former gets integrated ATI Radeon 3100 graphics, AMD's Cool'n'Quiet 2.0 technology, up to 8GB of RAM, an optional dual-drive RAID setup and a dual-layer DVD writer, the latter boasts NVIDIA GeForce 6150SE graphics, room for 4GB of RAM and up to 500GB of SATA HDD space. Best of all, both machines come in pretty easy on the wallet, with the dc5850 hitting in early May for $599 and the dx2450 available now for $369.

[Lein @ Apr 28th 2008 9:47AM]

*crickets*

[fred @ Apr 28th 2008 10:36AM]

"HP Compaq announces dc5850 and dx2450 Business Desktops"

the operative word is "Business", as in they need these to get stuff done and make money so that their people get paid so they can pay their bills.

You know, grown up stuff.

Yeah I know, no shiny white plastic or opportunity to propagandize a multi-national corporation as the savior to all mankind, but hey it is a gadget and it's new.

[Lein @ Apr 28th 2008 11:12AM]

Hey, I'm no stranger to business-grade hardware. I've got a Latitude D420 sitting in front of me right now (with a Latitude X300 at home.) And before they let me build my own machine (I LOVE over-clocking the Pentium Dual-core E2140,) I used to have an IBM ThinkCentre sitting under my desk at work.

I was more commenting on the state of the comments section, compared to other, more-active articles up for today.

[Sasha S. @ Apr 28th 2008 10:20AM]

Why are these computers so ugly?

[tekdroid @ Apr 28th 2008 10:52AM]

because the accountants were brought in to design hardware.

[Chris @ Apr 28th 2008 11:04AM]

You know I was actually going to reply that these look classy. Im not the fan of there home computers... These seem streamline and sexy... Laugh at me if you must.

[Daren @ Apr 28th 2008 11:12AM]

i agree with ya chris, the one on the right looks great!

[retro77 @ Apr 28th 2008 10:42AM]

That one on the left is almost a dead knock off of the Dell 745/755's that I have rolled out here. Only the lines on the front go up and down and not side to side.

ref: http://www.dell.com/content/products/category.aspx/optix?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd

[HeavyD @ Apr 28th 2008 1:04PM]

No, it looks like the current 5750 which has been out for a quite a while. We've bought about 50 of them.

[retro77 @ Apr 28th 2008 1:08PM]

We've been buying the Dell 745's since Jan 07. We now buy the continuation model the 755. Same case. how long has that HP been out?

[jason.grider @ Apr 28th 2008 3:51PM]

The HP case has been out for about 2 years now...

[retro77 @ Apr 28th 2008 4:01PM]

Awesome. Got proof?

[Musouka @ Apr 28th 2008 10:54AM]

Come back!!!

[ITRanger @ Apr 28th 2008 11:00AM]

For some reason, I'm thinking of Darth Vader with these things ....

Don't know why.

[Justin Ryder @ Apr 28th 2008 11:28AM]

I had thought these would be strictly AMD platform - meaning no NVIDIA graphics on the second setup.

[Daren @ Apr 28th 2008 11:41AM]

i was just looking at the systems page on HP, and saw that they offer FreeDOS as a OS choice. Didnt expect to see them offering the free DOS alternative...

http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF05a/12454-12454-64287-321860-3328893-3658382.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeDOS

[whatishalo? @ Apr 28th 2008 12:15PM]

New Title:

"HP Compaq announces massive layoffs in their design department"

[Eric @ Apr 28th 2008 2:16PM]

Design has been outsourced to IBM.

[poached @ Apr 28th 2008 4:09PM]

if you look at the case on the left and look at where the headphone jack/mic input with two USB ports underneath, it looks like a... face. Doesn't it?