New Tadpole SPARCbook RSN

Jon Masters wrote to us in regards to the SPARCBook 6500 from Tadpole. Solaris 9, 4 gigs of RAM and all that - but with the TiBooks and Linux working on laptops, how much do people need Solaris laptops?

Comments

I could use a Solaris laptop

[Adam Rightmann]

Since I support some high end Solaris system, it would be nice to have something I can take to a clients site and show them exactly what we have, rather than some poor mimic running on GnuLinux/Gnome.

Additionally, when we set up our system for expos and conventions, it would be nice if we could do it with Solaris laptops, instead of packaging up our Ultra 2000s. We could set up as soon as we got in from the airport with the Solaris laptops in our carryon baggage, instead of waiting for the unionized setup people to finish their coffee, their Fantasy Football talk and their gutter sex talk before they deign to move three boxes for us, and then get back to their lazy ways. It's little wonder that the more unionized a country is, the less productive is, you could make a chart starting with Taiwan and ending with the relic of the Soviet Union, and get an inverse relationship between union membership and productivity.

So, yes, Taco and Slashdot crew, not everyone is satisfied with an amateurish linux powered hand-me-down laptop, some of us want the full featered enterprise set of Solaris, and some of work for corporations that will pay for a manufacturered install Unix, just to get 24-7 6 sigma support.