Comment by lxe

11 hours ago

I thought it was a pricing mistake. But no, you just have to select the variations. $42,412.00

I wonder what the target audience for this price range is? At that price point I would rather go for a single H100.

  • I would rather take this option than a single H100:

    > 96 GB Dual NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 w/ 1000W PSU (non-refundable) +$19,169

    Though I don't think there's anything stopping you from trying to stuff an H100 into this machine if you want to BYO.

    • For that price you get the H100. The machine is overpriced, and I'd personally rather go for a second-hand workstation with server-grade components.

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So a new car, or an AI rig.

That's a bitter pill to swallow. Most of this is the cost of the Nvidia card, and the RAM.

  •   Graphics:
        (...)
        +$18,399 192 GB Dual NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 w/ 1000W + 750W PSUs (non-refundable) +$37,239
      Memory:
        (...)
        192 GB DDR5 3600 MHz (4x48) +$1,874 
    

    yup, 87.8% of $42,412 is just two GPUs and a PSU. Even RAM is less than 5%.

  • $42k and a toy CPU at that. Threadripper or EPIC if it must be AMD camp, although I'd rather it weren't (_always_ some random issues on linux). TBH, if I were buying workstation at such prices, I'd probably first take a look at what HP has (since their cooling and immunity to dust is unprecedented), and then probably BOXX and Puget. For DIY there's always supermicro at such levels.

  • I've noticed that some companies have flat out dropped the high memory configurations from their lineup that were offered just months ago at inflated prices. OnePlayerX had a 128GB Strix Halo tablet, RedMagic had a 24GB Android phone - both have been removed from their sites. It's a similar situation for the new Thinkpad lineup.

    • The honor 400 used to be sold for 300 dollars with 12 gb of ram. Now the replacement the honor 600 comes with 8 GB at twice the price.