Re: New business grade computer recommendations?

On 8/29/2025 7:15 PM, T wrote:
> On 8/29/25 4:48 PM, sticks wrote:
>> I really like the HP workstation line.  I got one for my son in the 
>> HP- Z2 line, and for myself I went a little less on the features that 
>> he had and got one in the HP-Z1 line.  What I really like are the way 
>> the cases open up and accept additional hardware, or just being able 
>> to work on them easily.  They are quite good.
> 
> I had a customer that bough a bunch of HP for their business.
> They got a really deal with a 12 month warranty.  They all
> broke at 13 months.  I repaired them -- mostly bad drives.
> I am a little leery of HP ever since.
> 
> Hopefully with your experience, they have cleaned up
> their act.  Then again, I am pretty sure they were
> home grade computers.

Well the son does programming for CNC work.  It works the hell out of 
the computer when he is doing his modeling.  It originally only had 16G 
of ram and I upgraded it to 32G.  You could really feel the difference 
and it completely stopped chugging along, like when you would rotate the 
model or change an variable and ask it to redraw.  It just popped.

Even my Z1 I am very pleased with.  Kinda funny but out in my shop where 
I spend most of my time I use a cheap $50 20 year old Compaq desktop 
running win 10 and only use the desktop HP in the evening for a short 
time.  The garage box is amazingly stable and works well, but it's like 
going to another level with that Z2.

I did a quick look at the current HP lineup, and it looks like you could 
really get amazing things, if you have the money.  That's the problem. 
Every time I go to buy something, I tell myself I don't need to have top 
of the line, but when I go look I change my mind and think I really do 
kind of want that.  HP does have a good group of price ranges to get 
started, and you can go from there.