You do have a point with the graphic support. But remember, this
Sun line is not meant to compete with PC in home desktops so you
can play doom all day. They are meant to sit in offices running
engineering and science applications. These machines are not
targeted toward you or me, but toware the company that you work
for. There is a big difference. If you pull up Compaq or DELL
web site, you will notice that the home PC and workstation
configuration are very different. In comparison the workstations
don't e have the 32bit soundcard, the 4MEG ram graphics card, or
the surround sounds speakers. But it does have 64MEG RAM, I/O
throughput faster then most PCs, and 10/100MEG bit network card
built in. And they can be networked together to run distributive
processing much better than PCs, and it can server as a low
end server handling loads higher and perform faster than PCs.
For enterprise solution this is a pretty good deal.
I read the inforword article, it is interesting. But it is
obviously written from a perspective of a home user and
not that of a IT manager.
- Chung
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I agree with you, Rod. They are making the most stupid, dumb-ass mistakes that will
result in a non-competitive product.
Moreover, on the hardware side, checking out the following review of the Darwin line:
infoworld.com
Here, I see Sun making the most stupid, dumb-ass mistakes, but this time in
hardware. Why the f**k do they insist on delivering 256-bit color on their low-end
systems? Even the $800 PCs have High Color. This will eat Sun alive. Right now I am
typing this on a Sun Ultra, which I use enthusiastically everyday, but the f*****g lack of
High Color support pisses me off to no end. Moreover, since they need it to compete
with PCs, they need to bundle more "productivity" software with it, as is done on PCs.
And it must be supported natively, not through the SoftWindows product. Why would
someone buy this to run Microsoft Office97 and have it run as if it was slower than a
100MHz Pentium? Moreover, at the beginning of the review, it indicates that PC
systems offer more features at similar price points. So why buy the Darwin Ultras?
Once again, it looks like too little, too late.
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