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Re: [PLUG] Buying a Sparc
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Aside from that, I like Sun the company, and I like Sun equipment. BUT
notice I still own a PC for desktop use. I will promote sun equipment for
server use every day of the week, but some of their cheaper desktop stuff
is just chinsy, and the reason people buy Sun stuff and pay the price
premium is usually for reliability.
-- noah silva
On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Tobias DiPasquale wrote:
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> On Friday 26 April 2002 05:23, Naresh Reddy wrote:
> > Sounds good. I like the Blade 100 for $995. And the Netra X1 for $995 is
> > great too. Are there any Sun dealers around the Philly area? BTW I think
> > Sun is taking off Solaris on Intel(32) is because they are comming out
> > with a linux dist (which is stupid of them).
> >
> > Thanks
> > Naresh
> >
>
> You should be aware of this, however. I had an Ultra 5 as a webserver and then
> bought a Blade 100 for this purpose and have regretted the decision the whole
> time. The Blade 100 is a slower machine overall, due to the cheap components
> they use (IDE HDD, PC133 RAM, etc.) Even though the Ultra 5 was 133MHz
> slower, CPU-wise, it still smoked the Blade when it came to server HTTP and
> FTP. So if that's what you want it for, don't buy a Blade 100; look for a
> cheap Ultra 5/10 on eBay or somewhere else.
>
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> << Tobias DiPasquale >>
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