HP Z800 workstation supports SLI Multi-OS, newest Xeon processors
By Nilay Patel 
posted Mar 31st 2009 2:04PM
posted Mar 31st 2009 2:04PM
posted Mar 31st 2009 2:04PM
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sure thing engadget. matter fact, i'll by BOTH of us the maxed out one :)
*sigh* long as you let me edit my comments.....
Garageband on a workstation?
My word.
Anderson, the Reply Button is your friend. Honestly.
@Paul chapel.
It isn't you're friend so don't use it.
Thanks Paul.
I couldn't have done it without you!
So in other words, the lower end one is more powerful than the Mac Pro and its cheaper?
Oh and it can have real workstation graphics cards right? Not rubbish like the 4870.
Yeah, go ahead and buy it.
It's cheaper and you can also run Final Cut Pro and Cinema Tools and Shake and Garageband and iMovie and Pixelmator and Logic Pro and MainStage and Colloquy and Motion and Textmate and Aperture and iPhoto and Keynote and EyeTV and Pulpmotion and Time Machine and QuickSilver and... oh wait, no you won't.
How can I survive without all that crapware Paul mentioned?
yeah how can anyone live without software like garageband and iphoto? should have mentioned photobooth to crown your statement
Oh, yeah, that crapware, like Final Cut Pro, which was used to edit the following movies.
* The Rules of Attraction (2002)
* Full Frontal (2002)
* The Ring (2002)
* Cold Mountain (2003) (Academy Award nominee for Best Editing – Walter Murch)
* Intolerable Cruelty (2003)
* Open Water (film) (2003)
* Napoleon Dynamite (2004)
* The Ladykillers (2004)
* Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
* Super Size Me (2004)
* Corpse Bride (2005)
* Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story (2005)
* Happy Endings (2005)
* Ellie Parker (2005)
* Jarhead (2005)
* Little Manhattan (2005)
* Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005)
* The Ring Two (2005)
* Black Snake Moan (2006)
* Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
* Happy Feet (2006)
* Zodiac (2007)
* The Simpsons Movie (2007)
* No Country for Old Men (2007) (Academy Award nominee for Best Editing – Roderick Jaynes) (Academy Award winner - Best Picture)
* Reign Over Me (2007)
* Youth Without Youth (2007)
* Balls of Fury (2007)
* "The Tracey Fragments" (2008)
* Burn After Reading (2008)
* The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008)
* Karf in HD (2008)
* The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
* Where the Wild Things Are (2009)
Or what about Shake, which was used in:
The Lord of the Rings, King Kong, a bunch ofsHarry Potter movies and Cloverfield, War of the Worlds, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, Fantastic 4, Mission Impossible 3, Poseidon, The Incredibles, Hulk, Doctor Who, The Dark Knight and Pirates of the Caribbean 2.
@ Paul: You forgot Gigli.
Can it run Crysis??
I had to say it after the itroll began ranting!
Please!
You can play Crysis on an iMac.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4wvsehdyOk
Wow, Paul. That's at least... 0.000000005% of movies made!
Paul you mofo - who the F cares to see a screen's worth of a list of movies made with Crapple software? This is about a HP workstation, and you list a bunch of movies? How about I list every fookin thing that has been made with Microsoft products? How about I insert a link to every f'in piece of hardware that's compatible with Windows.... would that make a fun read?
Stop wasting screen space - GET A LIFE and stop commenting about apple in EVERY GD post
LOL, right. I brought up Apple first, huh? Wasn't that Persian?
For people that hate Apple so much, you guys can't seem to stop talking about Apple, even in the non-Apple posts.
ah yes.
Paul Chapel, defender of the faith.
LOL Paul. Great crysis video. Runs like **** on low settings.
I guess you've never heard of Avid Xpress Pro. It was used in the following movies.
* The Black Dahlia
* The Da Vinci Code
* Stealth
* Ray
* The Dark Knight
* The Matrix
* The Matrix Reloaded
* The Matrix Revolutions
* The Pursuit of Happyness
* Dr. Phil (TV series)
* Entertainment Tonight
* The Insider (TV series)
* The Lord of the Rings
* Red Dwarf (TV series)
The special effects/video editing in those movies > the movies you listed.
That was on a PC.
Forgot to mention, that with the video card in this machine, it will render the videos orders of magnitude faster. CUDA FTW.
Your post includes movies like the Dark Night and Lord of the Rings, but the majority of the editing was done on Windows.
Xpress Pro was discontinued on March 17, 2008. You probably should look up Avid Media Composer, it's the standard in Hollywood at the moment and it also runs on Macs.
@Persian, who said: "Your post includes movies like the Dark Night and Lord of the Rings, but the majority of the editing was done on Windows."
Although Avid is available for Windows, most production houses in Hollywood use Macs, especially sound studios, since the latency is better in OS X because of Core Audio. And then there's Logic Pro, which is only available for Macs.
Ok so now what is your argument for the Mac? The main program that they use for video editing runs on both and this computer has better specs for a cheaper price.
ok, ppl let's shake hands and make up... all about the peace ya digg :)
Damn, did you see those SFX on that last eppisode of Dr. Phill? they blew me away.
@Paul
I'm glad I don't live in Hollywood and only use my PC for making movies, because then I would be fooked!
Why both your arguments are facetious:
Persian - the prices haven't been released yet. Starting at $2000 does not mean that the 2k workstation will have the high end nehalem processors (The web site states that clock speed starts at 2ghz which suggests the xeon proc that's about $100 cheaper than the one in the mac pro) and you are batshit if you think that the dual quadro gfx cards are gonna be on the entry level model.
Paul - Lists are dumb. Not everyone edits videos with workstations. Furthermore, the Mac Pro automatically loses for helping create the squid thingies in Pirates 2.
Is there really any difference with mac and windws delays in audio? And I mean a difference that matters, not some mikroseconds. Anybody got any reliable numbers? And does it matter, as long as the picture and audio delays are syncronized?
Still pretty lame if the only reason for buying a more expensive mac is apple proprietary software and os, especially if you can get similar software or even better for pc.
If HP can make a lot cheaper and more powerfull pc than mac it only proves that apple is screwing their customers.
damn, what happened here? looks like someone let loose a five year who just discovered layer masking on paul's comments
AVID, and HP workstations like these were actually essential in getting Slumdog Millionaire done on time and budget. There'll never be a standard that take the film industry 'by storm' for editing, because it's just too weird and diverse as an industry, also quite resistant to sweeping changes.
wow, think this could revolutionise vmware servers.... full SLI in virtualisation. (it might be old news... but its new to me)
...plus, why cant we win one of those in the recession antidote? :D
I'm Canadian. I can't win ANYTHING in the Recession Antidote. Don't feel bad.
(Grrrrrr...)
The two important things you forgot to steal from Gizmodo:
192gb of RAM max
Designed by BMW
Ugly as Sin
But i forgive you engadget, atleast you didn't say it wasn't as good as a Mac
...
Mac Pro Rules this Workstation because it's a mac and it doesn't need to have good hardware
You know your a moron right?
This HP Workstation uses almost exactly the same hardware as your beloved Mac Pro.
Same Processors, Same IO Hub, Same type of memory.
However Mac chose to limit each CPU to 4 DIMM slots whereas the HP uses 12.
Mac limits the memory to 4GB DIMMs with a max of 32GB
HP allows the use of 8GB DIMMs so the max is 192GB
Casper, the company is actually called Apple. Not Mac. Makes you look like a bit less of a douche if you actually get their name right, you know?
Casper, it also helps if you don't say "YOUR a moron."
No its BETTER than a mac, regardless of what it looks for.
Oh and it seems to be designed better for ventilation rather than shininess.
@Casper42
feeding teh trolls, you're doing it
Your a moran!
All hail Trogdor!
lol gordon sounds like he went to ITT tech and now thinks he knows something
Wow, spelling errors and semantics, you guys really got me there!
Notice not a single one of you argued my point which is the HP is the same or better than the Mac Pro where it counts.
Look likes a Packard Bell. very nice design inside...
TYPO?
Nehalem Xeon 5400
That should be 5500
las tapas de pelado!
how does the inside look better than the outside?
Ask your mom.
Zebra fur...tons of it
I cant wait to get my hands on one, I work for HP support and this system should make my job easy.
It can be stripped in 60 seconds
The PSU runs from front to back (i.e. separate air flow)
Optional liquid cooling
The full specs page can be found by seaching for HP Quickspecs, pick workstations then z800