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-[* black] The lovely folks at HP let us play with their Mac Pro equivalent workstation, the Z820. Here are the specs on this 2012 beauty:
- [* red] 16 DIMM slots, up to 512 GB of Memory
+[* black] The Apple of HP's eye, the Z820 workstation PC is their biggest and baddest, and our best look at the PC world's equivalent to [guide|20778|Apple's new Mac Pro]. What can you get in your Z820?
+ [* red] 16 DIMM slots, configurable to half a Terabyte of ECC DDR3 RAM
[* orange] Up to 5 3.5-inch 7200 rpm SATA drives for a 15 TB max
- [* yellow] A Rewritable DVD drive with space for 2 more optical drives
- [* green] I don't remember the graphics card
- [* blue] Wired LAN networking
+ [* yellow] Three external 5.25" drive bays
+ [* green] A whole slew of graphics cards options, ranging from the entry-level Nvidia Quadro K600 our sample arrived with, to the $4500 Quadro K6000.
+ [* blue] Dual integrated GbE LAN
+ [* violet] 3 x USB 3.0 and 5 x USB 2.0 ports, plus optional Thunderbolt 2 via add-in PCIe card