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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. Re:Partnering with Sun? by vegetasaiyajin · · Score: 0, Troll

    How so? My group does a fair amount of development in a variety of languages (C/C++/Java/VB/C#/and various scripting languages) and by far, the developers prefer Java. I guess I don't see how Sun messed up Java as you indicate.

    Java was a good language until 1.4.x.
    With Java 2 5 1.5 they turned it into a crappy language. Almost all the features they added are badly designed, especially generics.

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