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Sun's new UltraSPARC workstation: the Blade 1500

Posted by michael on from the sunshine-lollipops-and-rainbows-everywhere dept.

Roman Hauptmann writes "Here's a review of Sun's newest single-CPU workstation based on the UltraSPARC IIIi processor. According to the review, the system barely performs on the level of a P4 1.8ghz machine yet it sells for several times the price. Despite that, the Blade series still brings value to those who do visualization and imaging."

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  1. Re:For The Think Tank by Threni · · Score: 5, Funny

    > not mass produced generic clones like Dell

    He probably thinks evey Apples box is lovingly hand built by Steve Jobs. Mass produced just means `selling well`.

  2. What a scam! by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 4, Funny

    Despite that, the Blade series still brings value to those who do visualization and imaging.

    This is by far the most overrated device since the Hindenburg won the 1937 Lakehurst Best Lighter-than-air Aircraft competition.

    -- Ray Charles

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    "A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
  3. Eww. Looks worse than an iMac by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Uglist. Box. Evar. That red dot -- if you punch it hard enough, does it explode (assuming you make it through the AT field...)?

  4. Re:For The Think Tank by odyrithm · · Score: 3, Funny

    what you mean to say there not?!?! next your be telling me Windows is programmed by monkeys..

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    moo
  5. Re:For The Think Tank by secondvertigo · · Score: 3, Funny

    If Windows was programmed by an infinite number of monkeys, they would turn up in Redmond, knock on Gates' door and say...

    Here's Service Pack XP 3

  6. oh the irony by DrSkwid · · Score: 4, Funny


    incompetant

    did you mean incompetent ?

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  7. TRANSLATION OF PARENT POST by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Since my only previous was with a UNIX-based operating system was running Linux of my Pentium II, I was a bit daunted with the task of installing Solaris 8 on a SPARCserver 5. It took me 6 tries to figure out the installer, since I don't understand Sun disklabels. Once I finished the install, I couldn't figure out what these "csh" and "vi" utilities were, so I started poking around in /proc, but I quickly realized that Solaris's /proc is very different from the /proc on Linux, and I started to cry. I then called someone with more experience who fixed what I had broken and loaded up our custom database server software. In the meantime I went back to my cubicle, curled up with my Gentoo Linux eMachines running MySQL, and cried myself to sleep while sucking my thumb."

  8. Utterly ironic that... by Genghis9 · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...the SunPCI card will probably burn the main machine on equivalent benchmarks under Linux (once it's running on this machine)