Lenovo D10 ThinkStation Workstation!
Lenovo D10 ThinkStation Workstation!
VitalBodies is very excited to get a new computer that can handle graphics for creating art!
Exciting!
Heres a few links about the D10:
- Video: ThinkStation Tour
- PDF: Spec Sheet
- Web Site: Lenovo ThinkStation
Still waiting for this workstation to arrive, can’t wait…
THINKSTATION: This computer can support 2 Xeon 5400 series quad processors for a fast 8-core system. Plus you can add up to 32GB of Fully buffered ram and two graphics cards! You can put 5 hard drives below and there are three 5.25 inch drive bays in the front. Add one 3.5 inch floppy sized bay and you have a fully loaded system. The case is a 7U rack mountable design that can also be used as a tower.
Two 250GB drives as a raid and will run Ubuntu 64-bit Hardy Heron. The data will live on its own front loaded hot swappable removable SATA drive. There will also be a media card reader in the front.
ECO FEATURES: Of course! EnergyStar 4.0 compliant, recycled materials and High efficiency power supply.
QUIET: Another big plus for anyone using this workstation is how silent this computer is.
THE SHIFT TO OPEN SOURCE: VitalBodies recently made the shift to using all Open Source (free as in freedom) software. As much as of that software as possible is 64-bit including the Operating System Ubuntu. In fact, so far, everything we run on (with two exceptions) is open source.
One exception is Flash (still waiting for Gnash to develop their way past alpha and make it to the current version of flash compatibility) and the other might end up being Nvidia Proprietary drivers, at least for now.
For our graphics card we will be using an NVIDIA Quadro card which tends to do really well for 3D on Linux systems. If we were not doing 3D we would not need propriatary drivers. Then again, if we were not doing 3D we might not need this power house…
LENOVO: VitalBodies has used and loved IBM/Lenovo computers for much of the work we have done.
Support is second to none so far!
DONATIONS: Our first computer was an IBM Thinkpad T21 that was donated to VitalBodies!
We are still accepting donations of modern working computers.
