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sgi octane iii personal supercomputer: my pc’s faster than your pc.

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SGI’s new Octane III workstation takes the speed and performance that you’d usually find in a rack full of machines and puts it alongside your desk.

By leveraging modern miniaturization, the Octane III can handle up to 80 CPU cores, yes that’s EIGHT-ZERO CPU cores, along with up to 1TB, yes that’s ONE TERABYTE of…

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September 21st, 2009 comments (5) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

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scooterdesk puts your laptop on wheels

ScooterDesk by Utilia Design

Here’s a unique computer desk design. The ScooterDesk is a self-contained workstation which lets you sit and scoot around your office without leaving your desk.

Created by the Belgian sustainable furniture design firm Utilia, the ScooterDesk gives you a solid work surface for your laptop, and lets you sit in a comfortable upright position while…

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October 21st, 2007 comments (4) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

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linutop: another tiny linux pc

Linutop Linux Micro PC

If you think that smaller is better, you might want to check out this wee (not wii) PC for your desktop.

The Linutop is a compact, disk-less workstation which runs an embedded Linux OS on its AMD Geode CPU. The system features 512MB of ROM, 256MB of RAM, USB and Ethernet ports as well as…

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November 30th, 2006 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

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