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HP XW4550 Workstation
Workstation power…uniquely affordable
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HP XW4550 Workstation HP XW4600 Workstation HP recommends Operating systems: Operating systems: ® Windows Vista Genuine Windows Vista® Business 32-bit with downgrade to Genuine Windows Vista® Business 32-bit with downgrade to 1 1 Windows® XP Professional 32-bit custom installed Windows® XP Professional 32-bit custom installed Business Genuine Windows Vista® Business 64-bit with downgrade to Genuine Windows Vista® Business 64-bit with downgrade to 1 1 Windows® XP Professional x64 custom installe
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® HP recommends Windows Vista Business Who will benefit from the Market Segment Benefits functionality and features of the HP xw4550 Workstation? MCAD The xw4550 is pre-certified with a variety of AutoDesk, UGS, PTC software and others, providing an optimized solution for mechanical engineers, architects, electrical designers and civil engineers, and software developers. DCC The xw4550 is certified with Adobe Premier Pro, Avid and more giving entry and mid-level professionals an affordable di
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® HP recommends Windows Vista Business The HP xw4550 delivers HyperTransport technology is a high-speed, high-performance, low-latency point-to-point cache coherent link for integrated AMD HyperTransport™ circuits. It provides a universal connection designed to reduce the number of buses within the system, provide a technology. What is high-performance link for embedded applications, and enable highly scalable multiprocessing systems. HyperTransport is HyperTransport? designed to enable the chi
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® HP recommends Windows Vista Business Many technical applications require huge amounts of memory bandwidth, especially those that use 3D graphics or that How does this memory have a large percentage of floating point calculations. These applications will benefit from the massive memory bandwidth bandwidth impact the HP xw4550 system performance? provided by the HP xw4550. Additionally, no configurations using three memory modules are supported. Memory latency is another very important factor.
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® HP recommends Windows Vista Business What optical drives are The following table outlines what optical drives are currently available and what software is bundled with available with the HP xw4550? each drive. What software is bundled with these drives? DVD+/-RW Double Layer DVD-ROM SuperMulti* (SATA) with 2007 optical apps set (SATA) LightScribe Direct Disc Labeling • Support on Windows XP 32-bit, Vista Business 32-bit, Vista Business 64-bit • CTO, apps are preinstalled Create data & musi
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® HP recommends Windows Vista Business Operating Systems 1 What Operating Systems are Genuine Windows Vista® Business 32-bit with downgrade to Windows® XP Professional 32-bit custom installed available on the new HP 1 Genuine Windows Vista® Business 64-bit with downgrade to Windows® XP Professional x64 custom installed xw4550 Workstation? HP Installer Kit for Linux (includes drivers for both 32-bit & 64-bit OS versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS4 and WS5) Red Flag Linux v5 (available in Chin
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Does the HP Installer Kit for No, you must obtain the Red Hat Box Set of your choice. The HP Installer Kit for Linux is a CD set to be used in conjunc- Linux actually contain the Red tion with a RHEL install and supports Red Hat Enterprise WS 4 and WS 5. Hat Box Sets? Red Hat requires that you purchase Red Hat Enterprise WS 4 or WS 5. It is available from HP as After Market Option (AMO) kit. HP is only offering a preload Included with the preloaded RHEL WS 4 workstation is a Red Hat Network regi
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Where can I find technical At www.hp.com/support/linux_user_manual under “setup, install, and configure” you will find multiple white papers on information to guide my Linux configuration tips such as enabling large memory configurations, hyper threading, multi-headed graphics installation, configuring, or configurations, and release notes for each Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update. customizing of my Linux workstation solution? Why is HP enabling the Red HP has a strategic corporate relationship
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® HP recommends Windows Vista Business What do I do if my 32-bit You will need to get the library from Red Hat’s 32-bit RHEL 3 distribution and put it on your system in the appropriate apps do not run due to directory and report the missing library to Red Hat through their Red Hat Network subscription. This will help Red Hat to get missing shared libraries? the right set of 32-bit libraries needed for most apps in future releases. Once I have installed the Simple. Just rebuild from scratch and t
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® HP recommends Windows Vista Business DCC MCAD/CAE Other Adobe Autodesk ArcGIS Premier/After Effects Map 3D Ardence Avid Civil 3D Secure Pinnacle Steinberg/Liquid Building Systems Austin GEO (Linux only) XSI Land Desktop Dynamic Graphics Autodesk Inventor Earth Decision 3D Studio Max Revit GoCAD Combustion AutoCAD ESRI Toxik AliasStudio Landmark Smoke Electrical Flagship MAYA Mechanical/Desktop GeoProbe Canopus Bentley
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® HP recommends Windows Vista Business The HP Performance Tuning Framework is a preloaded utility which enables the most favorable configuration of HP What is the HP Performance Tuning Framework*? Personal Workstations delivering stability and best performance. The Framework will guide your system setup, allowing a "custom" configuration that best matches the workstation to user requirements. This customization facilitates availability of the latest graphics cards and drivers and removes some me
