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Are Dell or HP selling ARM servers to the general public, or still only to the cloud providers?

by jgalt212 3y ago

samcat116 3y ago
HP is
- hashtag-til 3y ago
  Worth having a look on the Lenovo x13s as well.
  - qwytw 3y ago
    Samsung, Dell and HP are also selling Qualcomm Windows laptops. Why (besides the novelty factor) would anyone get one instead of an Intel/AMD/Apple laptops is beyond me though..
    - hashtag-til 3y ago
      Battery life is a major factor. Windows is not really my thing for many years, so Apple is on the table in the battery life requirement, but I don’t think I’m coming back to Intel/AMD soon.
    - pjmlp 3y ago
      Apparently those ARM based applications don't write themselves.
- als0 3y ago
  Indeed. It's an Ampere chip inside a ProLiant Gen11 https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/28/hpe_arm_proliant_servers/ https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/28/hpe_arm_proliant_serv...
semi-extrinsic 3y ago
HP, at least, doesn't seem to want to sell any type of server to anyone. I recently tried to configure a Proliant DL385 Gen11, in order to give my sales rep a coherent list of "this is what I want" in terms of CPUs, memory and disks. And let me tell you, it's a sales experience that might just as well be a Monty Python sketch, it's so bad. I mean literally, one of their subdomains had a certificate expired so that I had to add a security exception just to view the information. The page in question had select boxes that couldn't be scrolled, anything I did would just scroll the main page instead. Their other configurator (because ofc they need at least two different ones) was completely unusable, when you try to select a drive or something you get an explosion of recursive "to select that you also need to select this cable kit, one of those 4 cages and deselect that other thing" warnings. Like, if you know what to fix, just fix it!!
- jgalt212 3y ago
  This is beyond frustrating, as Ampere servers (low power) are tailor made for on-prem compute. I like because I want my devs and data scientists doing green field stuff to have $0 marginal cost for compute. premature optimization being the root of all evil, and all that.

Are Dell or HP selling ARM servers to the general public, or still only to the cloud providers?

samcat116 3y ago

HP is

hashtag-til 3y ago
Worth having a look on the Lenovo x13s as well.
- qwytw 3y ago
  Samsung, Dell and HP are also selling Qualcomm Windows laptops. Why (besides the novelty factor) would anyone get one instead of an Intel/AMD/Apple laptops is beyond me though..
  - hashtag-til 3y ago
    Battery life is a major factor. Windows is not really my thing for many years, so Apple is on the table in the battery life requirement, but I don’t think I’m coming back to Intel/AMD soon.
  - pjmlp 3y ago
    Apparently those ARM based applications don't write themselves.
als0 3y ago
Indeed. It's an Ampere chip inside a ProLiant Gen11 https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/28/hpe_arm_proliant_servers/ https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/28/hpe_arm_proliant_serv...

semi-extrinsic 3y ago

HP, at least, doesn't seem to want to sell any type of server to anyone. I recently tried to configure a Proliant DL385 Gen11, in order to give my sales rep a coherent list of "this is what I want" in terms of CPUs, memory and disks. And let me tell you, it's a sales experience that might just as well be a Monty Python sketch, it's so bad. I mean literally, one of their subdomains had a certificate expired so that I had to add a security exception just to view the information. The page in question had select boxes that couldn't be scrolled, anything I did would just scroll the main page instead. Their other configurator (because ofc they need at least two different ones) was completely unusable, when you try to select a drive or something you get an explosion of recursive "to select that you also need to select this cable kit, one of those 4 cages and deselect that other thing" warnings. Like, if you know what to fix, just fix it!!

jgalt212 3y ago
This is beyond frustrating, as Ampere servers (low power) are tailor made for on-prem compute. I like because I want my devs and data scientists doing green field stuff to have $0 marginal cost for compute. premature optimization being the root of all evil, and all that.