Mephisto:
> The cost for NT with Intel's chips has been cheaper than Sun's
> workstations which run unix. I haven't followed SUNW, closely. So I
> do not know if SUNW will reduce their prices.
You may want to read the following news: biz.yahoo.com
> Personally, I want a computer that is a computer. I do not want
> to replace my tv with a computer.
Time may prove otherwise, if you are just a regular consumer and all you want to (or care to) do is to access and to manipulate information. Just think would you mind (or not rather) if you could run your favorite software on your digital/Web TV, as trivial as changing the TV channel to HBO (if you are a subscriber of course) to watch the good, the bad, and the ugly starring Clint Eastwood?
Speaking of the movie the good, the bad and the ugly (my all time favorite movie), perhaps in this new computing model the same paradigm can be applied to Sun, Intel, and Microsoft, with the good played by Sun, the bad palyed by Intel, and the ugly played by Microsoft! Although I have a difficulty trying to see who should really play the bad and who would play the ugly. I believe in the actual movie, Clint Eastwood ( the good </i) toward the end eliminates the bad, and then, eventhough he allows the ugly to live, but he gives him a lot of pain and torture! So perhaps in this case the bad maybe played by Microsoft and the ugly can be played by Intel!!
Regards,
Addi Jamshidi |
