On 4/24/06, Patrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > well it's been a while since i've last had the upgrade bug, but it seems to > be coming back, so i'm looking to get a new machine to run opensolaris and > linux and i've set my pricerange as between $2k - $4k. > > not sure if i want a laptop or desktop though. as far as laptops go the > ferrari 4000 seems to be very popular. and i've been told that ASUS builds a > nice laptop (i guess they make the powerbooks for apple). i think i want to > stay away from the intel machines as i prefer AMDs and i work for a PPC based > company. > > i used to own a SPARCstation 20 and an Ultra5, so the Ultra45 looked like it > might be pretty cool to play around doing development on-- only thing is i've > heard sun might be moving away from sparc to the fujitsu sparc chips, so i'm > not sure if that would be a good machine to pick. > > then there are the T1 based machines that might be cool to play around > with.... ah decisions, decisions! ;) > i would think about a t1000 low end (possibly take advantage of deals from sun i haven't looked at what they have) and a white box athlon dual core x2 box, should be able to squeeze in just under 4k or a low end laptop for a thousand instead of the white box.
James Dickens uadmin.blogspot.com > so since i can't decide, lets vote on what i should buy and i'll post pics > and opensolaris screenshots when i get it! > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
