There is no such quantity as "too much bourbon"

Ford/Chevy games are for children.

If it works it's good.

@Snorbalp: Now see, that's what I saw as well. No damn way. As far as the puters. I could see him building his own super computer using PS3's of course. And what a shame about the Cobra.

@strider_mt2k: We are talking Iron Man here, not 24. If it works, it's good. But if it's a superhero movie, I want some tech porn.

Who gives a fack.

Token black guy who plays billionaire playboy hero's confidant, check.

Since forever, movies use paid advertisement. There is a law that doesn't allow movie makers to put brands accidentally into movies. Therefore this post, with the "WTF" on the picture makes no sense. Otherwise you could put a WTF on the Camaro in Transformers, on the imac in I Am Legend, and so on...

Considering that every Super-Duper classified network in the DoD is 90% Dell, it's the most believable prop there.

Oh boo hoo, a Dell Server.

You know, I couldn't care less. It's not like anyone "normal" will recognize it.

@Jesus Diaz: Room full of killer shit and he complains about the drapes...

made me laugh - funny article

You are all a bunch of Dell fanboys.

Commodore Vic-20 cluster FTW!!!

@Jesus Diaz: But look at all the mac fanboys voting.

rotfl

@Jesus Diaz: That'll get 'em

bunch of fanboys, dell is just as good.

Those are to play Crysis on, his real super computers are in the closet.

@myotheralt: Vic-20 is winning!

He should use distributed processing power of all people not playing their PS3...

@buckvitulli: agreed. But it wouldn't be Giz if every post didn't have some hint of flame-bait in it.

Come on now, he didn't become rich by blowing his money on one off hardware. With the power of Intel's quad core processors, it makes sense to go with a commodity product like Dell servers.

@smcallah: oh, the humanity. What's wrong with all of you, people? This is Tony Stark! Iron Man! The guy made an empire selling arms to half-illegal secret international organization! He can create a machine to save Galactus life with Reed Richards! TONY STARK, ladies and gentlemen!

Where are the true fanboys? It's called Marvel for a reason, people.

Oh, we are doomed. Stan Lee, save us.

I didn't know Cuba Gooding Jr. was in this movie.

This movie will be available exclusively in high definition optical format on HD DVD, the dead (but not really) format.

P.S. Long live HD DVD.

Soooo...the Dell Severs don't pass for super computers but the Apple Macbook passes for a top secret, high-end, rugged military computer with the ability to deliver a virus to an alien computer system just in time to save the world from imminent doom. lol I don't think so. You can always tell when an article was written by a fanboy. Good call Proseven.

He had a choice......free stuff which could either be placed strategically in he background or the Iron Man suit could look like a NASCAR rig. Super heroes aren't immune from the effects of a flagging economy you know. I heard Superman is turning the Fortress of Solitude into a timeshare.

@THESPACEPOPE: Thats Terrance Howard, not Cuba Gooding Jr.

Hmm, they don't look out of place to me. Their design fits with the background.

Works for me.

Hmm.. WTF is he supposed to be using? some off brand shit?

I like to think that they are merely facades, and he hides the cool supercomputers behind them. Sort of like how bookcases hide the secret lair.

I'd rather see a nice looking IBM X-Series, or a few Sun Servers, but Dell is fine.

In the photo of the out-of-bed hot girl.
What is the thing behind the girl and next to the painting?

this will be my last plea to Jesus where is the update on the Lego project....

@lafond66: Ugh X-series IBM ? what a POS give me a HP any day and Dell just sucks.

Apple Fanboi obsessive much? Sheesh

when I wake up it's My Iron Giant Man.

@Jesus Diaz: Guilty.

BTW: I think there are still Commodore dial up BBSs in my area.
I haven't checked lately, but a couple of years ago i remember seeing a listing.

What's so amazing about a little product placement? I think more amazing is that its directed by John Favreau and stars Rehab Downey Jr. as Tony "Iron Man" Stark! That's hella shocking - here's hoping they pull it off!

All I know is that Leslie Bibb is serving up nicely in pic #19.

I have HP servers in my underground lair. I would have gone Dell, but HP has that nice natural disaster emergency service where they'll bring in a trailer and set up a temporary system for you should your underground lair get destroyed and go offline.

I say go DELL, I mean they're reliable machines with decent tech support. Besides if you're building a super secret piece of hardware, why use a ridiculous supercomputer that would need a team of technicians to keep it running and have the possibility of one of the techs talking about the project?

@proseven: I think the point is that obviously the cars in transformers were going to be some consumer model so it's less of an intrusion, whereas you'd think Iron Man might use something a little more special than a commodity-class server rack you'd find running behind your local internet cafe.

@strider_mt2k: your area? We were wondering about where do you live, since you post 24/7 to Gizmodo. Clearly, the Commodore BBS thing is definitive to support my theory: you live in limbo.

He should be using a big stand alone computer like the old Crays.

Thats is just storage for his Porn collection. Do you think he would let someone see his real servers?

Using Apple servers for a High Performance Compute Cluster may be sexy, but it's not practical. Since they only have 1 U servers the density isn't as good. Dell and IBM are pretty much the way to go for HPCC and much more cost effective. Plus, you can always pull out the old hardware once newer components are available. As long as you're rich (Stark) you can have the biggest baddest cluster in the world.

Dells? Meh.......we have a PowerEdge M1000, and a couple of regular 2900s at work and for the price they paid for them, again, meh.

But hey whatever, anything but Apple Xserves!

I always wondered how he can get aerodynamic lift from just his suit. You would have to have tremendous speed to be able to fly with just a suit. But before you get to that speed you would have to fly vertically.

@Snorbalp: replace it with Scotch and there is only too little.

And supercomputers are soo yesteryear. C'mon Giz, get with the program. Even the huge organizations that were once IBMs primary customers (credit companies like TransUnion and telcos) have started switching over to server clusters.

@buckvitulli:

"Considering that every Super-Duper classified network in the DoD is 90% Dell, it's the most believable prop there."

Really? According to who/what?

Dude coulda had PS3's linked together and Folded.

Anyone that has Dell servers, likely has the covers off anyway (unless not a secure room). Still, the poweredge have been reliable (my IBM's have lost more raid drives than my Dells have).

What a perfect role for an ex-alcoholic to play! A super-smart alcoholic!

Apple's just beating Commodore...

@Geisrud:
Exactly....need to remove that extra prop from the photo as well...

@Rain-man: This needs to be solved. Xserves are good 1Us, but they don't deserve to win. Iron Man needs something better, either funky 2 billion Vic20 cluster or exotic IBM POWER supercomputer.

If your going commodity servers at least go with blades. racks full of BL360s would look much cooler too.

I'm a true superhero. I do all my advanced weapons development using a ultra-modified Apple ][+ that I soldered together myself. I call it Timmy, and it is the most powerful computer in the universe.

Buying a Dell is like buying a white box. Go for something with some actual research done behind it like HP C-class blades, or IBM's blades.

Dell... what a joke.

What! No slide-rule? This poll has zero credibility!

@Snorbalp: to paraphrase Mark Twain, "Too much bourbon is just enough."

@Jesus Diaz: Limbo or NJ same diff. :)

Anybody that can make an Iron Man prototype in one day is building his own custom servers. Period.

"Dell! How can I get you started today?!"
"Uh, Hi, this is Stark Enterprises, I'd like to place an order?"
"And how can we customize and personalize your order today sir?"
"Yeah, just send me as much as you can."
"As much as we can?"
"Yeah, big powerful lots of it - as much as you can."

I don't think so.