Hey, I think you lot are thinking of the T2 chip and *not* the T1 chip. The T1 would be useless due to only having one FPU on die. However, a T2 chip would scream !
As a side note, I think people are looking for a UltraSPARC workstation that can do single threaded workloads in a similar performance to say a Core2Duo from Intel.. Most workstation users are *not* running highly threaded applications ! Maybe Sun could just bring the price down of the Ultra 25 workstation to around the Ultra 24 one ! *Hint* *Hint*. My two cent, Regards, Edward. 2008/8/13 Volker A. Brandt <vab at bb-c.de>: >> > The T1000 is an excellent machine (at 1GHz), also for the Desktop. >> >> Your the only one with that view, for desktop usage I moved back to a >> netra 1405 as it "felt" faster. > > Martin most certainly isn't the only one. There are two drawbacks: > > - video performance > - memory requirements > > Other than that, it's a great desktop environment (if the T1000 > is far enough away from you). I'm typing this on my current desktop > config: > > - T1000 6 cores @ 1.0 GHz > - 16 GB Memory > - Sun Ray 2FS > - 2x LG Flatron L2000C @ 1600x1200 > - Sun Type 5c kbd (via USB adapter) > > > The performance improved markedly when I upgraded from 2 to 16 GB. > Of course I'd rather have 8 cores... :-) > > > Regards -- Volker > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Volker A. Brandt Consulting and Support for Sun Solaris > Brandt & Brandt Computer GmbH WWW: http://www.bb-c.de/ > Am Wiesenpfad 6, 53340 Meckenheim Email: vab at bb-c.de > Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Bonn, HRB 10513 Schuhgr??e: 45 > Gesch?ftsf?hrer: Rainer J. H. Brandt und Volker A. Brandt > _______________________________________________ > xwin-discuss mailing list > xwin-discuss at opensolaris.org > -- All Documents adhered to the ISO/IEC 26300 standard file format for electronic office documents, such as spreadsheets, charts, presentations and word processing documents from this email address. The author does not take responsibility of the recipients inability to read international standards and who use proprietary products such as MS Office. See: http://www.openoffice.org/ Edward O'Callaghan. -- http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EdwardOcallaghan http://moonshine.opn4.org/ http://www.pcbsd.org/
