Neowin News Feed for: Workstation

System76 has launched Thelio Mira desktop and Thelio Major workstation based on Linux

Sanket Mungase — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 18:26:02 +0000

Two new products have been added to the Thelio series by System76, namely Thelio Mira and Thelio Major, which are more efficient and dissipate heat more effectively. Read more...

AMD R9700 with 32 GB VRAM claims to obliterate Nvidia RTX 5080 in Windows 11 AI performance

Sayan Sen — Wed, 21 May 2025 03:00:28 +0000

AMD is debuting its first 32 GB VRAM card for the RDNA 4 generation with the new AI PRO R9700. The company claims that it can completely destroy Nvidia's 5080 in AI tasks. Read more...

Review: Quntis RGB Pro+ light bar with wireless controller and premium craftsmanship

Robbie Khan — Tue, 13 May 2025 18:00:02 +0000

The Quntis RGB Pro+ is a cost-effective but high-quality light bar with a range of adjustments and mounting options. Whether your display is curved or flat, it could be what completes your setup. Read more...

Nvidia unveils the RTX 2000 Ada Generation GPU for creative professionals

Taras Buria — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 19:02:01 +0000

Nvidia has announced the new RTX 2000 Ada Generation graphics cards, a "cost-effective package" for creative professionals and developers, edge applications, AI acceleration, and more. Read more...

PC shipments fall by almost a fifth in Western Europe during the second quarter

Paul Hill — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 18:28:01 +0000

Canalys has reported that PC sales declined during the second quarter due to supply chain issues in China and lower demand from customers. The higher cost of living could see sales stay lower. Read more...

Apple's Mac Pro gets the most powerful AMD GPU ever with a whopping 120CUs and 64GB VRAM

Sayan Sen — Tue, 03 Aug 2021 17:16:01 +0000

AMD has announced the most powerful GPU it has ever created with its new Radeon PRO W6800X Duo dual-Navi chip. The card packs 120 CUs or 7,680 Stream Processors and is available for the Apple Mac Pro. Read more...

MSI announces Quadro RTX 5000-based WS65 workstation and an all-new WP series

Jay Bonggolto — Mon, 27 May 2019 15:00:01 +0000

MSI announced today its new WS65 laptop under the WS series of workstations, powered by Nvidia's Quadro RTX 5000 GPU and the 9th-gen Intel Core i9 processor. The all-new WP series is also in tow. Read more...

ASUS announces the StudioBook S mobile workstation

João Carrasqueira — Mon, 07 Jan 2019 16:16:02 +0000

ASUS' announcements for CES 2019 include a new mobile workstation in the form of the StudioBook S, which fits a 17-inch display into a 15-inch form factor, powered by Intel Core i7 or Xeon processors. Read more...

Fedora 25 released features Wayland debut

Paul Hill — Tue, 22 Nov 2016 21:38:01 +0000

The Fedora Project has taken the wraps off of Fedora 25. The new release debuts with the Wayland display server and GNOME has been upgraded to 3.22 which includes several improvements. Read more...

HP unveils the Z2 Mini workstation, 'smaller than a cup of espresso'

Vlad Dudau — Wed, 16 Nov 2016 10:32:01 +0000

HP has unveiled a brand new workstation, but this device is focused on design and saving users space. The Z2 Mini is small enough to fit in your bag, but still packs a punch in terms of performance. Read more...

Skylake processors for mobile workstations and mobile lineup surface

Moshe Jacobs — Tue, 18 Aug 2015 23:40:01 +0000

Intel is soon to introduce Skylake-H processors that are suited for mobile workstations and professional based laptops. Ranging from Celeron to Xeon, the much-anticipated CPU lineup has been leaked. Read more...

Rumor: Could Apple shut down the Mac Pro?

John Callaham — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 23:16:25 +0000

A new rumor claims via unnamed sources that Apple is currently evaluating whether or not it will continue selling its Mac Pro workstation line of PCs beyond the end of 2011. Read more...

VMware Workstation 7

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:24:38 +0000

Winner of more than 50 industry awards, VMware Workstation transforms the way technical professionals develop, test, demo, and deploy software. Innovative features help software developers, QA engineers, sales professionals, and IT administrators to reduce hardware... Read more...

Lenovo to launch dual-screen Workstation at CES

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 09:14:55 +0000

Lenovo is all geared up to launch its Lenovo ThinkPad W700ds Workstation at the CES Expo this January. The most interesting thing about this workstation is that it features a dual screen display, hence the... Read more...

VMware Workstation 6.0.1 for Windows

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 09:38:04 +0000

VMware Workstation is powerful desktop virtualization software for software developers/testers and enterprise IT professionals that runs multiple operating systems simultaneously on a single PC. Users can run Windows, Linux, NetWare, or Solaris x86 in fully... Read more...

Dell Launches New Mobile Workstation

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 11:28:54 +0000

Dell is revamping its high-end workstation line with a notebook that will include Intel's new Centrino Pro platform and enhanced graphics technology from Nvidia. The Dell Precision M4300, which debuted on the Round Rock, Texas,... Read more...

Intel Fights Back Workstation Market from AMD

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 10:18:21 +0000

Advanced Micro Devices' positions in the market of workstations have never been really strong primarily due to the fact that not a lot of system builders used AMD's chips in business-oriented personal computers. While along... Read more...

VMware Workstation 6.0

Thu, 10 May 2007 23:40:47 +0000

Discover the true power and flexibility of your desktop or laptop computer with VMware Workstation. Reduce hardware costs by 50% or more by running multiple operating systems simultaneously on a single PC. Automate and streamline... Read more...

Microsoft Demos DigiDesk workstation of the future

Tom Warren — Mon, 07 May 2007 12:10:04 +0000

A desk has never been so fascinating before, but not a lot of desks comes with a touchable surface and heads-up display. It's safe to say, Russ Burtner's desk kicks the crap out of every... Read more...

Intel To Upgrade Workstation Chipset

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 12:19:50 +0000

Intel on Wednesday said it would boost the clock speed of its quad-core Xeon processor, and introduce an upgraded chipset for workstation and high-performance computing. Executives with the Santa Clara, Calif., company said the clock... Read more...

Asustek to showcase notebook audio-visual workstation at CES

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 14:17:27 +0000

Asustek Computer will showcase its XG Station, an audio-visual workstation for notebooks at the upcoming 2007 International CES in Las Vegas, according to the company. The XG Station, equipped with discrete graphics chips, Dolby output... Read more...

Nvidia revamps Opteron server, workstation chipsets

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 19:00:35 +0000

Nvidia today launched the nForce Pro 3000 chipset family for servers and workstations based on AMD's recently announced DDR 2 SDRAM-supporting dual-core Opteron processors. The chipsets are aimed at machines containing one to eight or... Read more...

VMware Workstation 5.5

Thu, 24 Nov 2005 15:54:41 +0000

VMware Workstation enables software developers to develop and test the most complex networked server-class applications running on Microsoft Windows, Linux or NetWare all on a single desktop. Essential features such as virtual networking, live snapshots,... Read more...

VMware Workstation 5.5 RC2

Tue, 08 Nov 2005 14:30:43 +0000

VMware Workstation features the ability to run multiple operating systems on the same PC without the need to partition the hard drive, or rebooting. It allows users to interoperate among each of these operating systems,... Read more...

VMware Workstation 5 Released

Fri, 08 Apr 2005 11:05:20 +0000

VMware Workstation 5 RC3 Released

Sat, 12 Mar 2005 15:44:46 +0000

VMware Workstation 5, Build 12544 Beta Refresh

Steven Parker — Fri, 18 Feb 2005 11:08:16 +0000

Thanks Spynos for alerting us of this Beta Refresh. VMware Workstation is powerful virtual machine software for developers and system administrators who want to revolutionize software development, testing and deployment in their enterprise. ... Read more...

VMware Workstation 5 RC1 Released

Mon, 31 Jan 2005 20:47:04 +0000

VMware Workstation 5.0 Build 11888 Beta

Sat, 15 Jan 2005 12:59:48 +0000

VMware Workstation 4.5.2 Build 8848

Sun, 13 Jun 2004 16:24:47 +0000

VMware Workstation is powerful virtual machine software for developers and system administrators who want to revolutionize software development, testing and deployment in their enterprise. Shipping for more than five years and winner of over a... Read more...

VMware Workstation 4.5

Sun, 06 Jun 2004 00:33:21 +0000

Buffer Overrun in the Workstation Service

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 11 Nov 2003 21:49:13 +0000

A security vulnerability exists in the Workstation service that could allow remote code execution on an affected system. This vulnerability results because of an unchecked buffer in the Workstation service. If exploited, an attacker could... Read more...

HP to intro low voltage Itanium II workstation Monday

Daniel Fleshbourne — Sat, 06 Sep 2003 09:24:54 +0000

AS WE REPORTED earlier this week, Intel will formally introduce its LV (low voltage) Itanium II on the 7th of September. And one of the first off the starting blocks to sell machines using the... Read more...

Where are the Opteron workstation motherboards?

Tue, 15 Jul 2003 18:48:39 +0000

Come the 22nd of this month, Opteron will have been with us for three months. Even though Opteron's launch was essentially a server product launch, one would have expected workstation motherboards to have followed fast... Read more...

Microsoft Ends Windows NT Workstation Support

Mon, 30 Jun 2003 05:01:32 +0000

Time is running out for Windows NT 4 Workstation. After Monday Microsoft won't be taking support calls for the venerable operating system. Part of the put-out-to-pasture plan that Microsoft calls Support Lifecycle... Read more...

HP plans Itanium-Windows workstation

Tue, 29 Apr 2003 19:20:52 +0000

Hewlett-Packard, co-inventor of Intel's new Itanium processor line, will begin selling its zx2000 and zx6000 workstations with Microsoft's new Itanium version of Windows in mid-May, the company said Tuesday. The zx2000 comes with... Read more...

Nvidia Nforce 3 is Opteron workstation chipset

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 22 Apr 2003 16:40:22 +0000

A STIFF BRITISH upper lip was required for it to sit on the information until today but VA-Technologies has managed it. It's the first off the blocks with some very interesting details indeed. The Nvidia... Read more...

Windows 2003 as a Workstation Guide (restored)

Steven Parker — Sat, 15 Mar 2003 16:26:12 +0000

Many people have asked about the Windows 2003 as a Workstation guide and if it will be reposted, I have just completed it from a backed up Word .doc that Sphere sent me via PM... Read more...

New Xeon Chip Appears in Dell Workstation

Thu, 06 Feb 2003 23:37:36 +0000

Dell Computer is offering an unannounced 3.06-GHz Xeon processor from Intel for Precision workstations on its Web site. The chip features a 533-MHz front-side bus and Intel's hyperthreading technology, which enables a user to execute... Read more...

AMD workstation Sledgehammers planned for 2003

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 23 Dec 2002 17:28:00 +0000

ROADMAPS SEEN by the INQUIRER recently show that AMD is making a serious bid to shred holes in the X86 workstation market, with system prices likely to ratch an extra notch because of the introductions.... Read more...