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Lenovo vs. HP Z800

Posted by Kathleen Maher on June 25th 2009 | Permalink
Categories: Hardware Review
Tags: nvidia lenovo linux thinkstation

Lenovo S20 ThinkStation workstation. (Source: Jon Peddie Research)The Lenovo S20 ThinkStation we tested had a W5580 Xeon 3.20GHz processors, 3 GB of 1.3 GHz DDR3 ECC RAM, a 7,200 RPM 500 GB HDD, and an Nvidia Quadro FX4800 AIB with 4 GB of GDDR3 RAM. The S20 and the HP Z800 both have a Xeon W5580 @ 3.2 GHz processor, the main hardware difference between the two is that the HP is running with a Quadro FX 5800 AIB and Vista 64, while the Lenovo has Windows XP Pro and a Quadro FX 4800. Not quite the fair fight when it…