Workstation

Lenovo ThinkPad P17 Mobile Workstation Review: Only Professionals Should Apply

By / Personal Computing, Research, Workstation / January 11, 2021

Earlier this summer, Lenovo updated its mobile workstation lineup with the Lenovo ThinkPad P17 and P15 notebooks. Lenovo launched the ThinkPad P17 as its largest mobile workstation focused on durability and packed full of high-performance hardware to create a no-compromise solution. Every company talk about a desktop replacement, but this design tries to replace a real …

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HP ZBook Create G7 Notebook PC Review- A Workstation For Prosumer Creators

By / Notebooks, Personal Computing, Research, Workstation / November 8, 2020

Since 2013, HP has been offering mobile workstations under the Z Workstation brand, including the popular ZBook. Mobile workstations are becoming more popular for creators and gamers who need to game and create while on the go or away from their primary PC. This has been especially true during the time of Covid-19. Thanks to …

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Microsoft Seeks To ‘Inspire’ With Back-To-Work Power Platform Updates

By / Personal Computing, Research, Workstation / August 17, 2020

Last week, Microsoft held its annual partner event, Inspire, in the format that all major tech shows have adopted in the Covid-19 era—all virtual. While it was a decidedly different affair than previous Inspires (see my 2017 and 2018 coverage of the event), many of the challenges brought on by the pandemic happen to be in Microsoft’s wheelhouse. As the world, for better or worse, has started to reopen …

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AMD Ryzen Threadripper Pro Builds On AMD’s Resurgence In Workstations

By / Personal Computing, Research, Workstation / August 7, 2020

It is no secret that AMD has been on a tear lately, and one of the company’s biggest successes as of late is the high-end desktop PC category. Some of that high-end desktop momentum has also resulted in many prosumers and independent creators adopting AMD’s processors for their workstations at home and/or at work. While …

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Lenovo Announces New ThinkStation Workstation With AMD Threadripper Pro

By / Research, Workstation / July 29, 2020

This week, Lenovo announced its newest addition to the ThinkStation workstation product line, the ThinkStation P620. To keep up with the growing number of demanding professional workstation applications, OEMs like Lenovo are launching more powerful workstations and going the extra mile to differentiate. Professional creation applications are rapidly increasing in scale and workflow complexity and require …

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HP Launches New Entry Workstation Lineup With The Z2 Mini G4 Stealing The Show

By / Personal Computing, Workstation / August 7, 2018

Z2 Mini G4 HP Yesterday, Hewlett Packard Inc. launched “Z2,” a new family of entry-level workstations, along with a new supercharged business desktop with workstation ISC certifications. Workstations, for those unfamiliar with the term, are very high-end personal computers used by financial traders, 3D and 2D designers, movie studios—some are even embedded into advanced equipment like …

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HP Inc. Ups The Ante With New Mainstream Business Notebooks And Mobile Workstations

By / Personal Computing, Workstation / February 21, 2018

New mainstream HP EliteBook 800 notebook line. HP Inc. has been on a roll lately, recently re-attaining the #1-unit market share position in PCs. Today the personal computing and printing company announced new iterations of its mainstream (not premium) EliteBook 800 Series notebooks and ZBook portable workstation line, geared towards a younger, more “modern” workforce …

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We All Need To Get Serious About Protecting Company Data With Hardened, Multi-Factor Authentication

By / CPU GPU DSP FPGA, Personal Computer, Personal Computing, Semiconductor, Tablet, Ultrabook, Ultrathin, Workstation / May 27, 2016

(Image credit: Pixabay) The world is becoming a less and less secure place due to the plethora of hacks that have happened over the course of the past few years. Companies like Sony, T-Mobile, Anthem, Target and their customers have been victims of countless cyber-attacks that resulted in many people’s information being compromised. These breaches have …

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MWC: Stop The Eight Core Mobile Chip Marketing Madness

By / Personal Computing, Server, Smartphone, Workstation / March 11, 2015

I spent this week in Barcelona attending Mobile World Congress. Vendors from across the globe came to MWC to market their mobile ideas, opinions, hardware, software and services. I paid particular attention to handset makers and mobile SoC developers. I saw some very positive things from both these groups, but I saw one very disappointing thing that …

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Is Windows 10 Microsoft’s Consumer Comeback OS?

By / Gaming, Personal Computing, Smartphone, Tablet, Windows 8, Workstation / February 18, 2015

I had the distinct pleasure attending Microsoft’s event in Redmond last week where they brought out a myriad of new products like HoloLens and Surface Hub and disclosed many more details on Windows 10, in particular, the consumer features. In the totality of the event, I think Microsoft score big in that they projected that they could innovate and that …

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NVIDIA’s 2nd Generation Maximus: Dawn of the Hybrid Designer (White Paper)

By / Workstation / November 18, 2012

NVIDIA is shipping their latest Kepler-based, 2nd generation Maximus solution.  Maximus utilizes Quadro and Tesla cards inside workstations combining visualization with compute for manufacturing, media and entertainment, and energy markets.  The 2nd generation Maximus solution enables the melding of design and simulation, resulting in substantial enterprise value but also ecosystem disruption.  Moor Insights & Strategy explores NVIDIA’s vision, the …

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HSA Foundation: for Show or for Real?

By / Personal Computing, Smartphone, Tablet, Workstation / November 25, 2012

I recently spent a few days at AMD’s Fusion Developer Summit in Seattle, Washington. Among many of the announcements was one to introduce the HSA Foundation, an organization currently including AMD, ARM, Imagination, MediaTek, and Texas Instruments. The HSA Foundation was announced to “make it easy to program for parallel computing.” That sounds a bit …

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NVIDIA VGX Technology (White Paper)

By / Cloud Services and Enterprise Software, Datacenter, Workstation / November 18, 2012

NVIDIA  launched one of the most significant initiatives in the history of the company that, if delivered as promised, could propel them into a position as a top enterprise technology player. NVIDIA launched VGX at their annual GPU Technology Conference (GTC). Moor Insights & Strategy analyzes the new NVIDIA VGX platform and you can download the …

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