SGI has been quiet as of late, in fact we haven’t heard much since they declared bankruptcy and were bought by Rackable Systems back in April. Apparently since then they’ve been waiting for the dust to settle and release a new workstation, the Octane III supercomputer.
It’s good to hear from SGI. Their new system looks pretty sweet too, with the potential of up to 80 cores, and 1 TB of memory. Of course, this is not meant for the casual user, but rather someone working on high end graphics or animation, just like the old SGI workstations. The bad news is, you’re going to pay for this power. The Octane III starts at the in yo’ face price of $7999, and goes up from there. Admittedly, the system has the computing power of something typically found on a rackmount system, but it’s still pretty impressive.
Press Release
Shuttle and its form factor Barebone PCs are nothing new but this time around, Shuttle has surprised many (including us) with the launch of the X50 an All-in-One PC. We’ve never heard about Barebones that integrates certain essentials. And definitely the X50 breaks a trend or rather sets one in this case.
The X50 is more of a Nettop and it is also being described as the first AIO PC from Shuttle. The X50 is powered by an Intel Atom 330 dual core processor and has a 15.6 inch touchscreen display. Other incorporations include a 1.3 MP Webcam, a memory card reader, WiFi, Stereo Speakers and a 65W PSU that comes pre-installed.
It is a form factor Barebone so the need for an exterior RAM ranging between 512Mb to 2GB along with a fitting HDD is no surprise. With the current set up, the X50 costs €361 with the price for US market still unknown.
