Richard Catlin wrote: > I am a developer and am buying a new desktop system. I will be running > OpenSolaris as the host os and running VMs using VirtualBox. > > Has anyone bought an i7 system from Dell/Gateway, and had everything work > with OpenSolaris? > > Does anyone have experience with the i7? vs. Xeon? > > Thanks for any info. > > Richard Catlin
When my son and I built my daughter's new machine, we used a Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5 X58 mobo, and a I7 920 2.66G I7. Before installing Windows (she uses Photoshop heavily), I tested Opensolaris - worked like a charm; no problems w/ unsupported devices and the machine was _very_ fast, esp. w/ the 6 GB of triple channel DDR3... I'd wait a day or two before making any decisions :-). - Bart -- Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance barts at cyber.eng.sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/barts "You will contribute more with mercurial than with thunderbird."
