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Keith M Wesolowski wrote: |
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>Finally, as always, understand your workload |
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>before buying. |
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Here, again, I wanna be suggested by you experts. |
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1) I am a saleman (luckly, I am just technical enough to use gentoo, not |
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any more). My work mostly involve mozilla and openoffice, acroreader etc. |
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2) I have been using an very old notebook I brought several years ago, |
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thinkpad with Pentium 1G. Later the CPU gets burned, so replaced a |
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800MHz. I don't use desktop computer. |
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I want to have a sparc desktop now. We are using in the company very |
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complicated web-based database and customer management system, I usually |
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(with my notebook) wait 8 seconds untill one webpage fully loaded, |
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because each page is too complicated with javascript and lots of forms |
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and tables. (Network is very fast.) I hate to let my customer wait 8 |
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seconds on the phone untill I could see the customer's record, because 8 |
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seconds feels like 80 seconds on the phone, and sometimes I need to go |
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through 3~5 pages untill I can find a customer record. So mainly, I wish |
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mozilla is multi-threads and my new sparc could make this very |
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application (mozilla) go faster. |
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A) is U2 with dual 400Mhz fast enough for me? |
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B) how about U60 with dual CPU? |
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I don't want to buy anything too fast, I always have other better way to |
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spend my money:) |
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And Gary Nichols wrote: |
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> Ultra1: Well built, cheap on ePay, very quiet. Excellent in a server |
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> capacity, "so-so" in workstation configuration. Gentoo LOVES these |
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> boxes. Decent expandability for a single proc box. |
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> Ultra2: Best built, cheap on ePay, but LOUD. In a 10x10 office, it |
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> gets old. In a larger room with other boxes, you may not notice. |
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> Excellent in a server capacity, also excellent in workstation with |
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> 2x300/2M or faster procs. Hands down the best box Sun ever made. VERY |
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> expandable. Gentoo just zooms on this box. Excellent SMP operations. |
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> Ultra5: PC-quality case, slow PCI, onboard graphics poor. Louder than |
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> average PC. Good as a stackable single-use server. 333/2M is best |
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> proc for overall, IMO. Not real expandable. Gentoo works. |
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> Ultra10: OK case, but the implementation of the "lid" is poor. Quiet. |
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> Crappy IDE/PCI. Decent as a workstation, ok as a server. Gentoo works. |
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> Ultra30: Built like a tank - Heavy! Lots of room inside case. Almost |
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> as loud as an U2. Good as a workstation or server. Probably tied |
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> with the U60 as the second best machine Sun ever made. Gentoo loves |
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> this box. |
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> Ultra60: Solid case - very similar to U30 except that you can have two |
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> processors. Very fast. Good graphics options. Loud as U30. I'm on |
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> this box right now - running Gentoo! |
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> If you really want some excitement in your life, put an e250 under |
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> your desk. ZOOOOOM! Loud, but very fast and very expandable with |
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> procs, memory and storage. Highly recommended - and Gentoo just rips |
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> along. |
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