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Re:Talos II by PeCaN on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @01:23AM (#14965761)
That's par for the course for a workstation. Actually on the affordable end, which is surprising given that it's using POWER9 which I figured would be expensive (by virtue of not being x86).
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Re:Talos II by krylon on Saturday August 12, 2017 @09:49PM (#15001068)
It depends, I think.

Compared to the RISC based propietary Unix workstations of 20 years ago, the price is really good.

At work, our CAD people have machines that are in the € 1,000 - € 1,500 price range. Those machines are fairly big and powerful, at least compared to our regular desktop PCs.

It is possible to spend more money on a workstation, if one wants or needs to, and get a more powerful machine. Far more.

Depending on your use case, our CAD machines might be lightweights. But the amount of computing power you can get for € 1,000-1,500 these days is insane compared to the landscape 20 or even 10 years ago.

I am certain the Talos II offers good performance for its price. My point was that I would like to have a machine that comes without any opaque blobs or "management engine", but I am not going to spend that much money on it. I'd be happy go get such a machine in the € 500-1,000 price range at correspondingly lower performance.

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