Gee, I just bought a Sun Ultra 40 - BUT I HAVE been buying Sun stock for 3 years - I guess I am just half a fool :) George
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:opensolaris- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dennis Clarke > Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2006 7:01 PM > To: Jerome Ibanes > Cc: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org > Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] Quest for the "Perfect" OpenSolaris > workstation. > > > > My first Sun was a Sun 3/60, I loved it, it was a great workstation and > I've > > used it for years, it even (back then) seemed fast. Since then, things > have > > quite changed, computers got somewhat faster and it's time for me to > find > > the "Perfect" OpenSolaris workstation. > > [ WARNING - B L A T A N T O P I N I O N S ] > > Get any decent AMD64 box. Do not buy new as the value of a new computer > is > zero at some point in the near future. The value of a used AMD64 box is > also zero at some point in the future. In either case you lose all money > invested so simply buy what you need today because all computers are > throw-away land fill junk within five years or less. Same for cars unless > its a Ferrari or something special. Never buy new. Leave that for fools. > > If you want to buy a new system then I suggest the following : don't. > > Figure out what you think you need in terms of horsepower and go looking > for > it. Get a cost for a dual proc tier one brand name machine with 2GB of > RAM. Dual disks, I prefer SCSI, are nice. Dual gigabit Broadcom ethernet > is nice. Ensure that you can drop in a decent NVidia PCI graphics option > later on if you desire. Otherwise most graphics works fine. For sound > just pop in a SoundBlaster Live! card I guess. Most onboard sound chips > work fairly well for general usage. > > All in all, maybe $1500 max. With surface scratches and some mileage. > > Then go price up the cost of a new all singing and dancing system. > > Subtract the two and consider the money you just saved. > > Now consider that money as being spent already and go buy all the Sun > stock > you can get with those dollars. The symbol is SUNW and just call up your > bank and tell them that you need to buy as much as you can with your money > saved. Don't get shy and do ask questions. Figure out how to buy that > stock and buy it. You will thank me later. > > The good news is that by the time your machine is worth zero you can go > get > a new top of the line machine with your Sun stock that tripled in that > time. > Most likely a whole lot more. > > The bad news is that you missed out on the real meat of the money to be > made > because you didn't buy a boatload of Sun stock 2 years ago. > > As for build times and speed. Who cares? It will take 2 to 3 hours on a > blistering fast machine for a non-debug build these days and that will > shrink as faster processors come out. It is a factor that means nothing. > Every machine and processor today is faster than anything you had five > years > ago. The same will be true in five years. But you will have a pile of > investment equity. > > If you need to buy a ton of workstations or desktops for an office then I > suggest you look here : > > http://www.sun.com/sunray/sunray2/index.xml > > Save power, save the planet and save money too. Get the Sun Ray happening > in your office and once people see it and get the concept you will be a > hero. The next time a PC is stolen from your office then imagine the > surprise of the idiot when they get home and its a SunRay! Ooops. No > data > lost. No security risk. No problem. The boss loves you, your client > data > and reputation is solid. You look like a freaking genius. > > questions ? > > Dennis > > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
