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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. frosty by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    brrrrr...

    1. Re:frosty by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      UltraSPARC...what is it all about ? Is it good ? Or is it whack ?

  2. cool by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    cool

  3. Re:Brings value? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Get a new Powermac G5 for less $ and better hardware, and it is 64bit

  4. Re:For The Think Tank by odyrithm · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'll post a more descriptive post when I've read up on the specs

    You could have just read the aticle and then posted something worth my time instead of this dribble.

    not mass produced generic clones like Dell

    And erm.. Sun/Macs aint? ;p

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  5. Did you know by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Roman Hauptmann writes

    Hauptmann = Captain in the German armed forces.

  6. OH MY GOD... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The goatse.cx domain has been suspended see at Kuro5hin The goatse.cx domain has been suspended

    1. Re:OH MY GOD... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Why don't you submit this story to the slashdot editors instead of posting it offtopic like this? Actually, I think the editors would be smart to accept it, to keep the trolls in that story and out of some of the others, temporarily of course.

  7. Flaimbait by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The first 50 or so posts are all marked Flaimbait or Troll, I wonder why that is.

  8. Re:AND DID YUO KNOW by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What's your point, Vanessa?

  9. Re:Article w/o Perspective by DrSkwid · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    The BBC micro a 1Mhz external bus socket back in '82.

    There were units for an extra 6502 & a Z80 and later 32016 and ARM1 processors were launched for it.

    Acorn was so proud of it's second processor technology that it actually registered a trademark for it - The Tube(R).

    The BBC B with 6502 second Procesor unit evolved into the Master Turbo, the BBC with Z80 second processor evolved into the Master 512, but with an 80186 as the main processor.

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  10. Re:AND DID YUO KNOW by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Furthermore, what's the frequency, Kenneth?

  11. Redundant by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I love it when the third or fourth post in a thread is modded Redundant. Clearly Slashdot moderation is a joke. Trolls work around it and honest users are punished.

    1. Re:Redundant by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Nothing really works on slashdot, theres that $trbl thing for a start that the editors use to keep users from being able to mod; that dont keep with there thinking which totaly goes against "free speech" which they tote this site is all about.

      Theres no freedom of speech really, /. is a joke, and more and more people are seeing this, and thats why its going down hill.

  12. Re:If I wanted to pay for overpriced hardware by ImTwoSlick · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I would buy a dual G5 :)

    I did, and I LOVE it!
    It satisfies the hardcore comp sci in me, as well as the sparkling eye candy crack addiction I have.

    If I had a sig, it would probably be here.

  13. Re:80GB Seagate drive? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    why the FUCK is this post "informative"? is something now "informative" if you can find the exact same information by reading the links provided within the slashdot article?

  14. nerd by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    nerd

  15. Re:For The Think Tank by Paleomacus · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You could have just read the aticle and then posted something worth my time instead of this dribble.

    You could have just learned the English language and then posted something worth anyone's time instead of this drivel

  16. Re:For The Think Tank by odyrithm · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    woah, a grammar/spelling whore(not many of them about these parts), take you long to come up with that? did it? mmmm? make you feel all warm inside? did it? mmmm? did it make your feel like more off a man? did it? mmmm?

    Your life must be so full of shit to have nothing better to do than come up with this kind of crap.

    I bet you also beat up Neil Armstrong for fucking up the moon speech? right? mmm?

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  17. Re:Disappointed Sun Guy by ameoba · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "Serial ata would have been a great comprimse."

    Not really. The only real difference between SATA and PATA with drives currently on the market is that one has a different cable; you get a little boost on cache reads, but for the most part, you see nothing. The drives are internally identical, they just have different controller boards.

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  18. Re:AND DID YUO KNOW by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Wow, you're a real dick.

    There is no 'UltraSPARC OS' and you referring to it that shows that you know nothing.

  19. Re:Fact: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Um who is Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith?
    Never heard of them.