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The Return of the Sun Workstation, With AMD's Help

Posted by timothy on from the not-black-hole-sun dept.

Hack Jandy writes "Would you be surprised to hear Sun is the lowest cost Tier 1 dual-Opteron provider? AnandTech benchmarks Sun's newest w2100z and includes some sneak peaks at Solaris 10 and Java Desktop System 2. The biggest surprise at the end - it costs less than IBM and HP's configurations. Has Sun learned from the demise of SGI workstations that relying on one processor architecture is harmful?" CrzyP adds "They perform various benchmarks including 2D/3D rendering, compiling, encryption, and thermal and noise performance, and compare the 64-bit Sun box with various other configurations, including varying operating systems."

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  3. Damn Story Titles by lukewarmfusion · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I had my hopes up until the fifth and sixth words, when I realized that this wasn't a story by Tolkein.

    One Sun to rule them all
    One Sun to find them
    One Sun to bring them all
    And in the darkness bind them...

    But it wouldn't really be "darkness" if it were Sun, would it? I feel this is getting belabored, so I'm going to stop before I amuse myself past the limits of what the moderators will allow.

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