That usually the opinion I have over new HP offerings. The Z series replaced the XW line of Workstations and while most of our 'power-users' are using a Z400 right now. I have no real complaints about it except it's age, which is no fault of HP. It's powered by a Xeon W6550 which is a work horse. Problem is though there's little to no upgrade path hardware wise on this machine.
So enter the Z230.. now right off the bat I don't agree with the model numbers going down...usually that meant you are getting a lower class unit. So BOO to HP for going that route on these new units. Also I big BOO to HP for the psu maxing out at 400 watts. It's a workstation powered by a nice Xeon E3-1270V3.. it came with 8gigs of pc3-12800... why gimp the power supply? What if I wanted to toss in a big R9 290 along with a pair of 4TB Western Digitals?
Alas, nothing to be done about it now, except to set it up for a user whose known for breaking things and who works in a fairly dirty environment.
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