> Ultra 10... honestly somebody on eBay will buy it from you. Probably a guy like me. Those were fine little boxes for what the price back then. Of course I wouldn't even consider it unless it had the Creator 3D Series III framebuffer in there.
> But consider noise and heat and electrical consumption. According to > sunsolve, that Ultra 10 (sans monitor) is Input power 380 W, > Heat output 1287 BTU/hr. Those may be maximum levels. I had an Ultra 10 on my desk for years and it was never loud and never made much in the way of heat. Of course I removed the internal IDE drive and installed PCI SCSI cards. Then I attached external cigar boxes with 9GB SCSI disks in each and ran with SCSI disks mirrored. > I know my Thinkpad running snv81 is only 72W, Any thinkpad is expensive and not very Sparc like. I have had four thinkpads in six years and all but one of them has died of mysterious causes with no way to fix them. > and you learn to appreciate > the ambient noise level of your SOHO or low-level .mp3 background sounds > when they aren't contending with the whine of fan noise or the creaky-gravel > noise of old EIDE drives. Again I say, the Ultra 10 was a quiet machine. But maybe I'm just deaf. > Any generic AMD whitebox with the right supported $75 ATI/Nvidia video card > runs circles around that circa 1998 Creator card. Wrong. I'll put the framerate and OpenGL tessalation rate with gourand shading from that Creator card up against your $75 ATI or NVidia card and see what the truth is. Sorry but I just don't see the comparison. Again the issue here is *if* the user needs a Sparc machine. > If for religious or ideological reasons you feel you can't live without a > sparc box, then buy an Ultra 25 if you're rich or a SunBlade 150 if you're > not. Or just keep the Ultra 10 that will cost you nothing. Dennis _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
