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HP Recommends Windows Vista® Business

“We suggest you consider the relationship your prospective hardware vendor has with your chosen software vendors. Strong relationships can mean greater stability, improved system performance, and faster problem resolution. The HP & Siemens PLM Software alliance is an excellent example.”Brad Holtz, President & CEO, Cyon Research, in reference to the Cyon Research white paper, Strategic Partnerships: The Impact of Vendor Partnerships on Customer Value.

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Get more from your CAD systemSiemens PLM Software solutions offer near-seamless product flow management with standardization that doesn’t sacrifice customization. HP’s relationship with Siemens PLM Software ensures that our infrastructure solutions are excellent complements to UGS NX and UGS I-deas NX Series, helping to improve your return on investment and time to market. What’s more, HP offers consultancy services for reviewing your IT infrastructure and creating efficiencies.

Stable, reliable, and easy to manageThe HP and Siemens PLM Software alliance provides:

Solutions that optimize reliability and manageability, • thanks to the HP Performance Tuning Framework, which bundles HP’s UGS NX and I-deas NX Series expertise into easy-to-use system administration tools

Workstations with great out-of-the-box performance • requiring minimal IT support

Better system stability from thoroughly tested drivers • and system monitoring tools

Less support costs, less downtimeSystem failure costs money and result in lost time. With the HP and Siemens PLM Software alliance, you don’t need to spend time determining who to call because HP is your single point of contact. We have the expertise to optimize system reliability and minimize the time to resolution.

Because we value our customers, HP and Siemens PLM Software share a unique strategic alliance going back to 1988. Our Application Competency Center places HP engineers permanently on-site at Siemens PLM Software. They conduct extensive testing and certify entire systems optimized to run UGS NX and other Siemens PLM Software solutions. This unmatched collaboration provides you with reliable, easy-to-own solutions and breakthrough technologies that increase productivity.

The broadest range of new technologiesHP ensures our workstations offer the newest technologies as quickly as possible, often shipping before our competitors, to give our systems an even longer working life. We also offer a broad range of technologies to match your diverse infrastructure and design requirements. HP offers:

HP Blade Workstations that combine the centralized • security and control of a data center with seamless workstation performance and the flexibility to support professionals in multiple locations

The best choice of graphics cards including NVIDIA • SLI technology that combines dual graphics cards into a single Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) for significantly better UGS NX and UGS Teamcenter Visualization performance

Workstations with up to 64 GB of memory, up to • two Dual-Core or Quad-Core Intel® Processors or two AMD® Opteron™ processors, and the latest technology to simplify your workflow

HP exclusive configuration, security, management, • and remote access tools to streamline your workstation optimization and support—or even change the way you work

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HP workstationsEngineered for innovators

HP Compaq nw8710 HP xw4600 HP xw6400 HP xw9400 HP xw460C

High performance mobile CAD workstation, combining the best in visualization and computation; 17-inch diagonal display

Mainstream CAD; great for UGS NX and UGS I-deas NX Series

Designed for UGS NX and UGS I-deas NX Series users requiring two processors and large memory configurations

Handles large assemblies, complex designs, and UGS NX Nastran workloads with ease; expandable

HP Blade Workstations for datacenter-based workstation computing

Genuine Windows Vista® Enterprise

Genuine Windows Vista Home Basic 32

Genuine Windows® XP Professional

Genuine Windows Vista Business (32-bit)

Genuine Windows Vista Business (64-bit)

Genuine Windows XP Professional

Genuine Windows XP Professional x64 Edition

Genuine Windows Vista Business (32-bit)

Genuine Windows Vista Business (64-bit)

Genuine Windows XP Professional

Genuine Windows XP Professional x64 Edition

Genuine Windows Vista Business (32-bit)

Genuine Windows Vista Business (64-bit)

Genuine Windows XP Professional

Genuine Windows XP Professional x64 Edition

Genuine Windows XP Professional Blade PC Edition

Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor T7000 Sequence

Intel Pentium® Dual-Core Processor E2000 Sequence

Up to two Dual-Core Intel Xeon® processor 5100 Series

Up to two AMD Opteron™ 2000 Series Processors

Up to two Dual-Core Intel Xeon processor 5100 Series

Intel Core 2 Duo Processor E6000 Sequence

Up to two Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor 5300 Series

Intel Core 2 Quad Processor Q6000 Sequence

Intel Core 2 Extreme Processor

Up to 4 GB memory Up to 8 GB memory Up to16 GB memory Up to 64 GB memory Up to 32 GB memory

NVIDIA Quadro FX 1600M graphics

Choice of 2D and 3D professional graphics

Choice of 2D and 3D professional graphics

Choice of 2D and 3D professional graphics including Dual SLI enabled graphics

Choice of 2D and 3D professional graphics

Complete solutionsHP is a one-stop vendor with the infrastructure, expertise, and industry relationships to support a wide range of hardware and software solutions. HP offers a variety of platform architectures, including PA-RISC, Intel, and AMD, with a choice of genuine Windows® XP Professional, genuine Windows Vista®, Linux, or UNIX operating systems on workstations to high-end servers, combined with HP’s storage, middleware, and consulting services. Whether you need a server, security or data management tools, a large-format printer, a workstation, or a PDA, we’re here to help.

More engineering productivityHP workstations and software tools draw on our CAD experience, customer feedback, and our extensive relationship with Siemens PLM Software. Designing tools with a long and productive lifespan means less support and configuration intervention to minimize downtime.

In our relationships with a variety of hardware vendors, such as graphics cards manufacturers, HP works to prevent potential issues and achieve the fastest resolution possible should one arise. We test and consolidate all the necessary drivers for HP workstations and provide an automated download and installation process. You can get more done thanks to HP’s investment in the details from the beginning.

HP Recommends Windows Vista® Business

To learn more about the HP and Siemens PLM Software alliance, see www.hp.com/go/ugs

For more information about HP Workstation solutions, please visit www.hp.com/go/workstations.

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Thorough design and testing for better uptimesTo extend component life and create a less distracting office environment, HP workstations disperse heat quietly and efficiently. Our rigorous testing practices emulate systems in high stress environments and configurations—in many cases beyond the requirements of international standards bodies. And HP certifies our workstations with UGS NX and UGS I-deas NX Series to ensure performance and stability with your applications.

Easy to manage, secure, and updateTo help manage and secure your system, diagnostic tools, management utilities and additional security tools ship with your HP workstation. The unique HP Performance Tuning Framework application automates system setup and optimization. The Framework enables you to easily manage and troubleshoot issues for quick resolution. It allows you to easily upgrade your system for maximum reliability and uptime. You don’t need to download and install drivers that you hope work well together—we can do it for you.

Optimized performance on a desktop or across a networkHP workstations can help you achieve the best performance possible with Siemens PLM Software solutions. For example, our HyperTune utility for UGS NX, part of the HP Performance Tuning Framework, can improve graphics performance by customizing your workstation for the type of work you perform.

With HP Remote Graphics Software, you can access a workstation from any system over unlimited distances, with little or no performance loss. Revolutionary 3D graphics technology gives you real-time, fully accelerated collaborative reviews across an ordinary network. HP Remote Graphics Software lets you review designs remotely, view simulation results, and share designs without transferring files or traveling on-site.

Highly affordablePricing is never a secondary consideration in our engineering decisions. HP seeks intelligent ways to shave design and manufacturing costs, ensuring our workstations are competitively priced without sacrificing stability and performance.

Choose HP Workstations for your CAD implementationCreate an environment that empowers your designers. Get a computing environment based on a strong relationship and enjoy greater stability, system performance, and faster problem resolution.