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New Tadpole SPARCbook RSN

Posted by Hemos on from the sparc-at-the-world dept.

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?

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  1. Re:Amen, brother! by ArsonSmith · · Score: 4, Informative

    huh, huh, huh, you have an account as well, huh, huh, huh, cool.

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  2. Re:Non-Sun OEM use SPARCcs? by Lupulack · · Score: 4, Informative

    Heck yeah , Fujitsu , Tatung , Toshiba just to name a few.


    Check out www.sparc.com for lists of members of the Sparc consortium.

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  3. I emailed them and got their brochures (via mail) by BoomerSooner · · Score: 5, Informative

    They are 5000 to 8000 depending on the config. The new ones didn't have prices yet so the $8000 is for the 2GB system.

    Actually prices aren't that bad when comparing to average Sun prices.

  4. Here you go, I found an email with prices & na by BoomerSooner · · Score: 4, Informative

    This is a month old however:

    Tadpole has discounted our 500MHz IIe laptop with the 14.1" LCD
    1024x768, with 20-60GB HDD and up to 2GB RAM. Let me know if you have any
    interest.

    500MHz IIe, 14.1"LCD, 20GB HDD, 256MB RAM $5,489.50
    500MHz IIe, 14.1"LCD, 20GB HDD, 512MB RAM $5,939.25
    500MHz IIe, 14.1"LCD, 20GB HDD, 1GB RAM $6,750.00
    500MHz IIe, 14.1"LCD, 20GB HDD, 2GB RAM $8,730.50
    can expand to 60GB HDD

    Tadpole also announced a 650MHz IIe, up to 160GB HDD, 4GB RAM coming in
    Dec., 2002

    Dennis Vines
    Sr. Account Manager
    Tadpole
    2300 Faraday Ave
    Carlsbad, CA 92008
    PH: 800-770-9003 x 216
    FX: 760-931-1063
    Email: dennisv@ca.tadpole.com

    Portable Solaris Workstations and High Density Servers providing
    solutions from the Rack to the Road

  5. Re:More bits != better by Twirlip+of+the+Mists · · Score: 4, Informative

    But is 32-bit always worse in practice than 64-bit?

    Actually, 64-bit is usually worse in practice than 32-bit, all other things being equal. Many processors let you compile code for 32-bit pointers or 64-bit pointers; the MIPS R10000 family is the one I'm familiar with. The same code compiled for the 32-bit ABI will either run at the same speed as the 64-bit version, or it will be faster. The difference is caused by cache performance. If your pointer is twice as big, you can only squeeze half of 'em into the same caches. Thus, more cache misses, and decreased performance of the application overall.

    Unless you need more than 2 GB of virtual memory for your program, you should compile it with 32-bit pointers.

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