At the HP booth, you can see what HP says will be the new screamer workstation based on the new dual core Pentium 5000 and 5100 chips coming out from Intel in a staged release next month and then in Q3.

Check out the xw8400 running an unoptimized version of Avid Media Composer, showing truly impressive performance increases—Avid’s Joe Bentivegna says the realtime streams more than doubled and they saw a 25-30 percent increase in render times. I stress “unoptimized” since Avid hasn’t yet put out the 2.5 release that takes advantage of the new architecture.

Also at the booth, the same workstation prototype is running Autodesk Maya.

You can also use the op to see the new dual-core mobile workstation.

Read a press release on HP’s Digital Media Solution at NAB here.