By CPU meaning 4 physical processors not limiting the number of cores of these.
#Windows 10 pro vs workstation windows 10
Check out the licensing costs for Oracle if you want a good laugh.Īs for licensing capabilities: Windows 10 Pro currently only supports up to two physical CPUs and 2 TB of RAM per system, but Windows 10 Pro for Workstations will support up to four CPUs and 6 TB of RAM. It's stupid all around, but industry standard. Want a "real" workstation? Pay through the nose. Sadly nothing new, they've been pulling stuff like this since WinNT days. Does anyone know anything about this special version of Windows 10 Pro Workstation that one only supports 4 cores and one supports more? Now I find this weird and feel like its a way for Dell to charge even more (No way to get an i9 or Thread Ripper outside of an Alienware machine). This led me to build a workstation with a Xeon CPU and a Quadro card, however now dell has two versions of windows 10 pro, both are what's called "Windows 10 Pro for Workstations" however one only supports 4 cores and you need to spend an additional $105 to support more than 4 cores. Unfortunately corporate has us forced to go through only Dell. So I was spec'ing out Workstations for my company and its the need of building an editor/animator rig that needs to run Unit圓D editor, After Effects, 3Ds Max. But for me the biggest thing is that finally, the industry wants to move away from NTFS over to ReFS! Let's hope we keep getting better file systems! most high-end PCs these days are as beefy as standard enterprise servers of the small/medium businesses.Īs for licensing capabilities: Windows 10 Pro currently only supports up to two physical CPUs and 2 TB of RAM per system, but Windows 10 Pro for Workstations will support up to four CPUs and 6 TB of RAM. Windows 10 Hyper-V, which is a Type 1 hypervisor can also function in this way.
#Windows 10 pro vs workstation software
These licensing schemes are just a natural evolution of the Software business as standard user equipment now have access to a crazy quantity of processors and ram. If you are looking to use virtualized Windows 10 instances from time to time but do not need VMs constantly running, the Type 2 hypervisors mentioned such as VirtualBox, VMware Workstation, and VMware Fusion may be excellent choices.
Nope, that is definitely not Dell. That all 100% Microsoft, new policies, new rules, hardware manufacturers (HP, IBM, Lenovo, Asus, etc.) will have to comply when selling new systems under these.some are faster, others are slower but when their existing inventories of OEM licenses run low you will see more of these pop-up.