Commenting on: “Rock-star” HP Nehalem-powered Z-series Workstation features FirePro accelerators

Last week HP unveiled (with much fanfare) their new Z-series workstation PC powered by Intel’s Nehalem Xeon processors.  The rock-star moniker refers both to the zippy tech specs as well as to the pretty sexy exterior (for a professional workstation) having been designed by BMW Group Designworks. The Z800 can hold as much as 192GB of DDR3 memory, along with up to two Intel Xeon processors, with the 3.2GHz, quad-core W5580 being the top-of-the-line offering. When running at full power, HP claims the workstations can…