SUN SOLARIS LOVERS: Sun Blade 100 Workstation $995.00

[dominic01]

HERE

 

[sk560]

this is nice.....

 

[hojl]

okay I am not very familar with actual workstations such as sun and SGI and so on. how does this compare with a similar priced set up PC

 

[popinjay]

$995 is only the introductory price

 

[gjc12]

99.99% of people should ignore this. This is definitely not a computer for home use - more of an engineering computer. There aren't many applications where you'd want one of these over a PC. For instance lots of engineering software is only written for sun/solaris machines, and then you'd have to buy one of these babies. But if you look - a decent configuration is going to jump the price up from the intro of $995 to $3-$6K!!! This might be a good deal if you're in the market for a sun machine, but otherwise stay away. I know the Ultra 10's we have at work originally sold for around $10K (not sure how much they run now) but I don't know how the performance compares between the two.

 

[Schlocemus]

Nice deal even though many people should ignore it. I think that Sun machines are wonderful, I just can't afford one right now ... maybe someday though

 

[rowcroft]

That's there standard price on the Blade 100, it's a nice system if you want to run solaris, it's a 64 bit proc with 256KB of cache at 500mhz. Uses PC133 Memory and IDE drives. It's loud but pretty fast. I personally would rather pay a little more and get an ultra 10. If it were the Blade 1000 then it would be a hot deal.... =)


Rowcroft

 

[flot]

I don't think it's such a great deal... I use some low end sun machines at work (Ultra 5s) and they're dog slow. In *my* experience, for the same amount of money, a PC running linux will pretty much smoke them. There's nothing real fancy about the low end Suns - mediocre processing power, IDE drives, not much ram... $1000 will buy a NICE Intel based system...

 

[Gusfo0]

Nice deal.
You can bump the ram in this a lot cheaper from our friends at crucial dot com..

http://www.crucial.com/store/listparts.asp?model=Sun+Blade+100+Workstation&x=20&y=4

 

[Igotgas]

here here flot!

I don't see what all the bru-ha-ha is about.

and I personally have a vendetta against Netscab

 

[ProUser]

Hot deal when you work for Sun, and get the 50% employee discount.

 

[ProUser]

Hot deal when you work for Sun, and get the 50% employee discount.

 

[N8Magic]

Igotgas:

And what exactly does Netscape have to do with these Sun Blade workstations? People who use these generally won't be using them to browse the web.

They're called WORKstations for a reason.

 

[rowcroft]

Depends on the ultra 5 really. There are many ultra 5's that are years old and still kicking. I don't have any x86 based machines that are over two years in age. Now, when you start talking about the ultra 10's (SCSI, 4MB Cache Sparc II's) or the Ultra 60's, I'd like to see a linux machine that could outperform them. The Blade 100 is a good workstation, you'd be hard pressed to find another true 64-bit workstation in that price range. Does it do everything the blade 1000 does? Hell no, but it's at 1/6 the cost and completely binary compatible. It has it's place in the market and if you don't know what you would do with it then you don't need it =)

Rowcroft

 

[burnedout]

This is a great deal. Been around for about 6 months now. You can juice the memory up for super cheap at current DIMM prices.

No, it's not for the windoze crowd either.

OK all you Sun bashers, name me another new (with warranty), entry level, 64 bit system for under $1000.00 with halfway decent speed?

"Duh........ we don't know burnedout.......duh"

 

[halik]

nice workstation, but i still cant afford it...
I recently got ultra 1 creator with 200mhz and 256 mb ram for around 200 bucks. 64 bit here i come.... (if i ever get it to boot up - im still waiting for a scsi cable)

 

[tigerbait]

<< And what exactly does Netscape have to do with these Sun Blade workstations? People who use these generally won't be using them to browse the web.

They're called WORKstations for a reason. >>




Well, in my 3-D calculus class, we used these workstations to run Mathmatica, and being the model student that I am , I spent a few lectures on the internet. But the Netscape was aggravating.

 

[Antisocial Virge]

128 meg of ram is $575 :Q For that price they better fly out and install it for me.

 

[hojl]

okay I was just wondering not for web browsing and stuff like that but for say C++ codes or fortran or mathmatica. How must faster is this 64bit processor that is only 500mhz compare to say a intel iv 1.7 or amd 1.3?

 

[SP33Demon]

It is probably twice as fast processing, coming from the theory that PCI is usually 32bit! Don't quote me on it though...

 

[N8Magic]

Well, in my 3-D calculus class, we used these workstations to run Mathmatica, and being the model student that I am , I spent a few
lectures on the internet. But the Netscape was aggravating.

Netscape is aggravating on ANY platform... doesn't matter if it is Solaris, Windows, whatever.

 

[hojl]

so is it safe to say that since PC's are 32 bit and this is a 64bit that a 500mhz 64bit processor is about as fast as a 1gig 32bit processor?

 

[Danman]

Well, my Dad works at Sun Microsystems so he can get these really cheap and a lot better. I have one right now. It is nice but I need to learn how to use Solaris 8. Btw...you can purchase a Sun PC card that allows you to run Windows on any of their machines! It works great too.

 

[Deathgame]

Nice deal......

i've been working on Sun Workstations lately and they are not user-friendly(just my opinion).....they have those environments like DCE....

&quot;Btw...you can purchase a Sun PC card that allows you to run Windows on any of their machines! It works great too. &quot;
Or you can use a Windows emulator in Solaris 8.

 

[rowcroft]

I would rather work on a unix workstation then a windows anyday. I like to have root level access and control of the entire system, not what some company thinks I should have. User friendly is all relative.

Rowcroft