my next desktop?
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The new Sun Ultra 20 workstations are pretty slick. Clearly a design taken from Apple's book, but without the full cheese-grater effect.
Starting at USD$895 for an 1.8GHz Opteron 144 with 512Mb DDR400 RAM and a 80Gb, 7200RPM SATA hard drive, it isn't priced much like Sun hardware normally is. You would probably need to replace graphics card if you picked up the low end one and wanted to play games on it, however.
No sign of it the at Sun Australia's web site. Huh!
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Looks nice. What OS what you run on it if you bought one? (Of the options they list, I think I'd pick Solaris.)
Posted by: Paul Hoadley on June 28, 2005 07:15 PM
I would buy it with just Solaris and probably install Ubuntu amd64 as a dual-boot, to see how it works on a 64-bit platform.
Unfortunately I don't have much use for a new desktop, so unless someone pays me for some Solaris-based work soon, I can't see myself getting one.
Posted by: Mike on June 29, 2005 10:47 AM
I like the look of the java work stations aswell, they still seem a bit pricey but thats not unusual.
PS: Mike is that your little green toyota sitting out on your street?
Posted by: shaun on July 4, 2005 02:05 PM
Yeah, those Java Workstations are nice, spec-wise. Too bad a just bought a new notebook.
But... a green Toyota? I used to borrow a brown Datsun once, but that was many years ago. Or are you thinking of my _other_ car?
Posted by: Mike on July 5, 2005 12:45 AM
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