[geeks] HP xw9300

[Aaron Finley]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Bill Bradford <mrbill at mrbill.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 10:04:02AM -0500, Joshua Boyd wrote:
>> Has anyone used these much?  I'm wondering if a used one would prove to
>> be superior in virtually all ways to a newish home PC, like the gateway
>> special that Lionel posted a month or two ago for the same sort of money.
>
> I've got an xw4600 here on my desk at work, and it's one of the nicest
> "prefab" desktop systems I've ever used.

In terms of PCs, I swear by the Lenovo D10 and I recommend you take a
look at one priced via Lenovo CPP/EPP (codes are readily available by
searching.) I have two and have successfully recommended an additional
five to friends and coworkers all who are extremely pleased with them.
The one I am using is an eight core Xeon with 24GB of RAM, 3 750GB
disks and a GTX 260. The machine is absolutely silent. The case is
very solid and the internal layout [1] is superior to HP machines.
Before I bought my second D10, I bought a refurbished HP XW6600 and
RMAed it due to the fact that I found it noisy and it had lesser build
quality.

-- Aaron

[1] http://www.lenovo.com/shop/americas/content/img_lib/products/splitter/workstations/gallery/tc-4l.jpg