Author: Zachariah Amela
Date: 15:29:19 08/19/99
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> > If you have heaps of money to spend on a computer, then Sun is the place to be. >It is hard to justify their high price: the boxes are expensive, the operating >system is expensive and the developing tools are expensive. I mean, Sus's cc >compiler is not included in the license for Solaris, you have to buy it and it >is not cheap. > Devices are also very highly priced, a 1 Gb harddisk was around 20000 mexican >pesos last time we checked (1 US dollar = 10 mexican pesos, approximately). > But they are nice machines. I use them all day long, fortunately I do not have >to pay with my money for them (: > When I read the reviews of the new Sun computers, they all seem to be near >perfect, Performance Computing always gives them "Excellent" or "Outstanding" >grades (and they are clearly biased towards NT, not Solaris). > Unfortunately their prices almost seem like jokes. I can agree with you there. There prices are quite bad. There lower end workstation is floating in the 3K range, which isn't too bad. But they kill you w/ software and parts. I might stick w/ an Intel board but put Linux on it. That way I can at least get away from Windows. What is the cost ratio between a dual pentium running Linux verses a single processor Sun running Solaris? Just curios. More suggestions? SGI w/ Irix?
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