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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. Elementary by drhairston · · Score: 3, Troll
    but with the TiBooks and Linux working on laptops, how much do people need Solaris laptops?

    Solaris notebooks will satisfy their own market niche - users who need a stable, secure Unix with good development tools. Linux notebooks will be available for the rest of the Unix market.
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    Dr. Joseph Hairston
    Superintendent, CCBC
  2. what? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    "but with the TiBooks and Linux working on laptops, how much do people need Solaris laptops?"

    Hemos, you have obviously never run Solaris. Linux and OSX are not even in the same league. Do yourself a favor and try a truly elegant operating system sometime.

  3. Define 64-bit by yerricde · · Score: 0, Troll

    Where else can you get a 64-bit laptop?

    How is my existing Pentium II laptop not 64-bit? Define "64-bit" for a personal computer.

    "64-bit data bus" and "64-bit floating-point registers": Intel Pentium 1 has these.

    "64-bit memory addresses": This begins to beat 32-bit addresses only on servers or workstations with more than 2 GB of physical RAM.

    "64-bit integer data path": The Pentium has dual 32-bit integer data paths (U and V pipes). The Pentium II/III and Athlon have three. And don't MMX, 3DNow!, and SSE work with 64-bit vectors?

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  4. 4 GB RAM by DuckWing · · Score: 0, Troll

    not to mention that you *need* 4GB of RAM to run Solaris with any kind of decent performance. It's a hog and many solaris apps are hogs, and just plain slow!

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    -- DuckWing