4 Sep
2007
4 Sep
'07
6:41 a.m.
Patrick Finnegan wrote:
On Monday 03 September 2007 23:18, Sridhar Ayengar
wrote:
Yebbut, if you don't need the CATIA-grade graphics, a p5-52x with
very nearly the same specs as the IntelliStation can be had for under $5K.
Doc
Patrick Finnegan wrote:
The Intellistation POWER 285?
IBM Web Price for the lowest end model is $8,099:
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/intellistation/power/hardware/285/browse.html
If you want a decent dual-core model, list price is $14.074. POWER has AIX and i5/OS / OS/400. by themselves,
much more
interesting to me than anything that runs on MacOSX. Of course,
I'm "one of those people" who runs Linux on their work-provided
PowerMac G5. I just can't seem to get my boss to want to pay $10k
for a proper POWER5 workstation from IBM. ;)
The POWER5+ workstation on my desk at
work costs (retail) a touch
more than half that. It's fast, too.