16 Oct
2008
16 Oct
'08
4:21 a.m.
2008/10/16 David Griffith <dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu>:
It seems that Sun has discontinued (hopefully temporarily) desktop Sparc
machines. Can someone tell me how the prices of these machines compared
with their line of x86 machines?
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David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
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I have just bought a dual 900mhz Sparc machine with 2gb memory. for
?130. I haven't got it yet. But I am quite sure it will be fast enough
to use as a desktop machine. Also should be fairly quick at compiling
bits and pieces.
I haven't had a decent Sun machine for a few years so am looking
forward to this one.
I did have an Ultra 2 with dual 400 procs and it was my main machine
for a good few years.
I was looking at getting something similar, there was loads of old Sun
machines on ebay a few years ago. Now there are only new expensive
ones.
Although I was disappointed they stopped making desktops this might
mean the 2nd hand prices of the latest ones will drop as people go
over to Intel. Although they may go up if they are rare.
Dan