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I love the concept, but it's missing what's in my opinion the component that would benefit most from modularity: dedicated graphics. A significant portion of t
by lewisl9029 9y ago
I love the concept, but it's missing what's in my opinion the component that would benefit most from modularity: dedicated graphics.
A significant portion of the target market would probably have no need for any more graphics power than what comes with the processor, so not including it in the base module makes a lot of sense. However, for many use cases, discrete graphics is an absolute necessity, so not even offering it as an option in a modular system targeted at the high-end market strikes me as an odd omission (as far as I could tell, the system doesn't even have Thunderbolt 3, so it can't support eGPUs through normal means either).
- gogopuppygogo 9y agoThe USB Type C interface should give them external graphics which would be a better alternative than discrete graphics.
- lewisl9029 9y agoUSB Type C is only the connector specification, and it offers very little guarantees about what protocols are actually supported through the connector. External graphics would require a USB Type C port with support for Thunderbolt 3, which is an entirely separate specification from the USB 3.1 spec that's usually the baseline for such ports, and offers 40 Gbit/s in bandwidth vs USB 3.1 Gen2's 10 Gbit/s (and Gen1, which is more commonly used, is only 5 Gbit/s). I couldn't find any mentions of Thunderbolt in its specs, so I don't believe external graphics is a possibility here.
- pan69 9y agoHP also has another model called "Z2 Mini" which seems to be more graphics oriented: http://www.zdnet.com/product/hp-z2-mini-g3-workstation/ http://www.zdnet.com/product/hp-z2-mini-g3-workstation/