Many people like Xmas presents. And Easter presents. And birthday presents. I like presents when I need them most. Gee, starting an HPC company means investing heavily, right? Mmm, hardware…

ThinkPad P50 is simply fabulous - by the features offered (wow!), by the looks (ooh la la!), and by the price tag (ouch!). And: this cool 15.6” workstation can sit on your lap. While her elder sister - ThinkPad P70 - has been around for about half a year, P50 came down to Europe only two months ago. Upon looking around (Dell, HP, Zzz), I’d been longing and waiting…

“And then I saw her face”:

• Intel Xeon E3-1535M v5-Prozessor (8 MB Cache, up to 3,8 GHz)
• NVIDIA Quadro M2000M 4 GB
• 64 GB (16 x 4) DDR4 2133 MHz ECC SoDIMM
• 500GB HD 7200RPM + 2 x 512 GB SSD PCIe-NVMe
• 15,6” 4K (3840 x 2160), IPS

[blush]

(to be continued)