Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 14:27:48 06/08/03
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On June 08, 2003 at 00:52:54, Ryan B. wrote: >What programs and what price range you looking at? I'm sure crafty would run >great on a Sun Blade 150 and the price is rather reasonable. >http://store.sun.com/catalog/doc/BrowsePage.jhtml?catid=85825 If your looking >for the best price to performance ratio I think AMD is the front-runner. But >I?m not much of a fan for Intels high-end prices on low-end hardware, just my >opinion though. Problem being, the Sun Blade 150 is a pile of shit. Seriously, a 650MHz US-IIi? It gets 283 on the Crafty SPEC test. A 500MHz Athlon can beat that score. It's mind-blowing that Sun is charging $1395 for a computer that would get its ass whooped by a PC from, like, 4 years ago. Just for fun, I went to newegg and priced a system with similar specs to the Sun Blade 150. Unfortunately, they don't sell parts that are old enough, so I had to go with a DVD drive (instead of just CD), a processor that's more than twice as fast (1.1GHz Athlon), and an AGP graphics card with 3D acceleration (vs. a 2D PCI card). The total price came to $253. So if you go with a PC, you get a system that's twice as fast for 1/5th the price. Price/performance advantage of 10x... hmm... -Tom
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