ThomasDowns

Hi GeneXiS_X We're from the UK and the budget is around £1000 but we were willing to stretch to the £1250 for the Surface Pro 6 with the TypeCover and pen. At the same time though, if we can get a similar performing device for £750 we'd prefer that. No preference on weight nor battery life as we should be near an outlet most of the time. Anything greater than 6-7 hours of casual use would do fine. And for display size, anything larger than 12 inches, so the Surface GO isn't an option really. Especially when the 128GB SP6 is only a few hundred more than the top spec GO. Thanks

I should also mention that the original budget was around the £1000 mark so I don't really want to go anything above the £1250 of the SP6.

Hi all, We're in the market for a new 2-in-1 laptop, preferable a detachable. My options are narrowed down to the following: Surface Pro 6 - £1250 (student pricing w/ typecover and pen) i5 8250U, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD. Porsche Design Book One - £999 i7 7500U, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD. This won't be running majorly intensive applications but I'd like it to last a good few years without feeling like it needs an upgrade. I'm leaning more towards the Porsche Design however I know the 8th Gen i5's we're a pretty decent improvement over the 7th gens. What are peoples thoughts on the above, or does anyone have an alternative ideas? I've been looking at dell's Inspiron lineup as I can pretty decent 8th gen specs cheaper than both those but it forfeits the tablet/2-in-1 functionality which my other half is keen on. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

8-9 Years for me. I distinctly remembering this video below as one of the first I saw but might be even older than that:

Just found another server, how does this sound: HP Proliant DL580 G5 4U Server 4 x 2.4ghz Intel Xeon E7450 Processors with 6 cores per cpu 32GB RAM Its likely overkill but costs only abit more than the other 2x xeon server I mentioned.

Just remembered something about the x5450's, they consume almost 50% more power than the E5450's, would the energy savings be enough to warrant the slight performance hit?

I wish the upload was higher than 12 but the download is super fast for the price it costs. I've enquired about a leased line and 160/12 comes with our phone and tv packages for around £95 a month. The leased line for 200/200 came in at £595 a month or I can get a 1000/1000 line for £16000 a year. Thats around $900 and $25000 respectively.

If its against dream spark terms then I wont use it, just knew I had a key somewhere. It will be a storage and application server running mainly a web server but will also run other applications in the future. We may also use this for small things, perhaps to run a mumble server on the side however depends on my upload handling the data. I have a 160/12 connection.

I was thinking of running Linux however I do have a spare license for windows server 2008 or 2012, not sure which, I've got it through my dreamspark account. Do you advise to run windows on a machine like this?

Thank you scottyseng, The only concern I have with these servers running the x5450's is the hard drive compatability. Can I throw 2-4TB Red drives into these? The specifications seem to say 3.5" 7200 RPM drives only go up to 1TB, is this just because of the age and there were very few drives bigger than 1TB or is there an actual cap on these older servers.

Hello, Please forgive me if this has been asked plenty of times before, I've been searching for an answer but I am getting mixed results. I am looking to purchase a server for business use, this will store company documents alongside running applications such as an internal web server. Id like this server to be able to handle multiple applications and be expandable as I require more storage or software to run. I was looking at a new tower server from Lenovo however I found a good site offering second hand rack servers for fairly good prices. I was looking at the following kind of specs: TS140 ThinkServer - This comes with 4GB of ECC Memory and a Xeon E3-1226 v3 @ 3.3 Ghz alongside a standard 1TB WD Red drive. This is currently £240 after a Lenovo rebate. However I have found some dell PowerEdge rack servers. These are rough specs: Dual Xeon X5450 @ 3 Ghz with 16Gb DDR2 RAM. These servers have roughly the same expand-ability to around 6 drives each. These come in second hand at around £150 My question being, which would be the best solution in terms of performance? I know the newer xeon will perform better in single applications but would the Dual Xeons out perform when multiple applications are running? Id ideally like this server to run for 1-2 years at which point I would likely invest in a higher end server. Any ideas?