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Tech Envy?

Posted by on Mar 4, 2009 | 4 Comments

It is not often that I find myself wanting a PC so badly that I find myself salivating. However in the case of this $16,000 PC, the drool was aplenty to be sure. This monster, sporting a mere 32Gigs of RAM and four quad core Opteron processors, should be ample for those needing to do some light web browsing along with some email checking (sarcasm).

Perhaps what grabbed my attention the most, is how it requires the ugliest case I have ever seen. Seriously, how can I find myself yearning after something so horrid looking? Is it the idea of having enough fans spinning to rotate my house into a new time zone or the fact that the PC is sporting some pretty heavy water cooling action? Hard to say for sure.

I think for most people, the real question is what this beast would be used for? Clearly going beyond the typical workstation into something completely out of this world. Perhaps it has some server based intent, considering the specs? What do you think it would be best suited for? Hit the comments, let’s hear your thoughts on this.

  • http://otn.oracle.com Karl Entner

    The first thing that comes to mind RUnning applications like 11G for example that you can easily test at otn.oracle.com which ou can test drive on such a beast. Or something like what Sybase has as well as an alternative to Oracles RDBMS. I know for sure a beast like this can handle something like that without hiccupping at all. What other specs are out there for this is there a link to see what case it uses to get a better idea. For the software from Oracle to test drive is a free membership as well to get the downloads in order to install it on any window or linux based machines.

  • MichaelG

    Tech envy? I’ve been around life and tech long enough to understand that nothing is perfect and even the best products are limited. Why in god’s name would I want to be a guinea pig and buy new technology? Why? Because it’s new? Because its the latest thing? You are being manipulated into thinking you are cool when you are actually being a fool. Baby’s are new! Do you all want one of them?

    The words, ‘state of the art’, basically means high prices. For instance, specs on an amplifier. The human ear can’t really discern a hundredth or a tenth of a point in difference. If anything, you want your ears to be your buyer. Not the specs, price and certainly not the sale people. The specs are only information and to be used as a guide not the gospel.

    Tech envy? Not on your life. Useless snobbery and self satisfying behavior. One might even say tech envy is masturbatory. On that note I leave you. Thanks for listening.

  • rr

    Only thing I can think of is video encoding. 32GB ram is large enough for a large ramdrive and copy the video files there and encode them

    To be honest I don’t think those specs are that great for 16k.

    You could build a 8 proc machine with similar specs for about 5k.

    WZ

  • D Lowrey

    Just got thru building an AMD 9850 quad-core with 8 GB of RAM on a Gigabyte MB…2 WD 500 GB SATA drives…650 W Antec PS & 2 SATA DVD burners. Thought the $700 I spent was bad/excessive…just started crying when I saw this $16K monster & thought that I wanted one as well.;)