The Test Center has taken a look at Hewlett-Packard's HP xw6600 Workstation; it came to us against the backdrop of headlines about Intel's Core i7 processor ... made sense: A dual-Xeon workstation ...

Some motherboards have memory slots on both sides of the CPU socket, but those are mostly in the case of high-end workstation ...

Code-named Penryn, the new processor line is expected to eventually cross product lines from desktop to server, workstation and mobile. The line will include dual-core and quad-core chips.