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Greg Corke

Greg Corke is DEVELOP3D’s Managing Editor and resident workstation specialist. There’s nothing he likes more than putting the latest kit through its paces in 3D design, visualisation and simulation tools… well, there’s always travel, cooking, music and Arsenal as well.

Apple first out of the blocks with new generation Xeon (Nehalem) processor

Posted by Greg Corke - March 5, 2009

This week Apple lifted the lid on Intel’s new Xeon processor, way in advance of the other major workstation vendors, and, much to our amazement, even in advance of Intel…

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Lenovo unveils new workstations

Posted by Greg Corke - March 25, 2009

Today Lenovo became the first of the dedicated workstation manufacturers to announce its new generation Intel Xeon (Nehalem) based workstation range. Pipping Dell and HP to the post, Lenovo’s new…

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HP Workstation Event: touch screens could have health implications

Posted by Greg Corke - March 25, 2009

Multi-Touch screens running applications such as Autodesk Mudbox, as demonstrated at Autodesk University last December, may be more for show than practical use due to concerns over ergonomics. #1: Ergonomics…

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Live from LA: Behind the scenes at BMW DesignWorks

Posted by Greg Corke - March 26, 2009

I’ve just spent an incredibly interesting few hours with BMW DesignWorks in its headquarters in Los Angeles. Owned by BMW, the design consultancy has a hand in the development of…

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Dell unveils new Precision workstations

Posted by Greg Corke - March 30, 2009

Dell officially unveiled its new range of workstation-class systems today with the launch of the Precision T3500, T5500 and T7500. Like all new workstations being announced this week, the new…

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Nvidia unveils new Quadro FX line up

Posted by Greg Corke - March 30, 2009

With two of these new Nvidia Quadro FX3800 graphics cards you can run Windows and Linux at the same timer on the same workstation with little or no drop in…

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HP Workstation Event: HP targets collaboration with SkyRoom

Posted by Greg Corke - March 30, 2009

Jim Zafarana, Vice President and General Manager, Global Business Unit, Workstations, demonstrates HP’s new SkyRoom collaborative technology running SolidWorks’ eDrawings with a live connection to Jeff Wood, Director, worldwide workstation…

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HP Workstation Event: HP takes lead in workstation virtualisation

Posted by Greg Corke - March 30, 2009

#3: Despite being one of the most interesting technologies to appear at HP’s workstation event, it was surprising that this new workstation virtualisation technology was given so little stage time.…

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HP Workstation Event: Z Series take serviceability to new levels

Posted by Greg Corke - March 30, 2009

#4: It’s been a frustrating few days for me. Not only because I had to leave sunny LA at the tail end of last week to return to wind and…

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HP Workstation Event: HP to offer twelve core workstations this year

Posted by Greg Corke - March 30, 2009

HP’s AMD-based workstation, the xw9400, is to support six cores per CPU #5: With all the hype surrounding HP’s new Xeon 5500-based Z Series workstations, I asked HP what this…

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