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Sun Announces Its First Laptop

Posted by samzenpus on from the new-machine dept.

boarder8925 writes "Enterprise computer maker Sun Microsystems announced its first-ever laptop yesterday, saying the machine was designed to let engineers and scientists perform demanding computer tasks away from their desks. Sun, which has seen sales fall for the last four years, said that it was also lowering prices for some of its computers by up to 40 percent."

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  1. Way too much unfair bad publicity by johansalk · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Sun suffers more than anything from a disproportionate and hugely unjust share of bad publicity that is thrown at it. It just had become too fashionable to bash Sun. Whatever Sun does or come up with, you can be certain there'll be a crowd of idiots who'll badmouth it and can't wait to sing its obituary. I don't want to hear nonsense in replies as to why this is so - I don't want to hear anyone tell me any such nonsense; I know this company and I have followed it for years, and fuck you and your thoughtless kneejerk impending-doom reponses to anything Sun does. I know that it innovates and contributes a lot to the industry and to open source, yet all eyes are scornfully on and all tongues are poisonously about it, all the while other giants while in their mediocrity under the radars of the crowds of fucktard wannabe pundits.

  2. Re:$3,400 by AKAImBatman · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You think $3,400 is bad? You obviously haven't shopped for a Sparc laptop from Tadpole!

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  3. Re:Partnering with Sun? by ericspinder · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Until rather recently, I didn't even know that they sold wintel boxes.
    Because, until recently, they didn't. I've worked with applications running on Sun boxes for a number of years, at one point during the tech boom, they were a must have, but now they are just over priced. Sure this article talks of some lower prices (for wintel desktops) but I'm sure they still want big money for anything that can be called a server.

    If you are looking for a partner, choose a Linux builder, there's plenty of them out there,many with the warrenty and service plans which I am sure your customers are looking for, don't be afraid to 'go local' with a white box builder. Some are really good, and they might even be able to throw some business your way.

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  4. Re:Partnering with Sun? by IANAAC · · Score: 4, Insightful
    While Suns tend to be pricey, it's because their built like tanks (both in terms of chasis/frame, and from CPU and internal layout).

    While that used to be true, I don't think it's true anymore. You can still find good, solid boxes, but the parts inside fail every bit as much as our Dells and Proliants. Everything from disk drives, to backplanes to memory. All of these have failed on me at some point in the last year with three year old boxes. Truth be told, our IBM x-series cluster has outlasted any other piece of hardware in our shop.

  5. Re:Partnering with Sun? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In my server room I have 4 servers.

    That's great. Thanks for sharing your wealth of experience on the subject.

    You often hear this stuff from windows users who probaby wouldn't know RSC from OpenBoot. Could there be a pattern?

    I recently worked at a site with approximately 40 racks of equipment. The site suffered a UPS malfunction which resulted in horrible spikes and phase variations being delivered to the data centre. Even IBM zSeries and pSeries systems had to have power supplies replaced, let alone Dells and HPs with with cooked system boards.

    Their Suns all came back up without even an fsck. The SF4900 & 6800 didn't even go down.

    What does this prove about the relative reliability and build quality of Sun systems?
    Nothing.