[Suns-at-Home] Raw Power

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 13:12:13 -0700 (PDT)
Matt Radtke <aaron_milwaukee@yahoo.com> wrote:

> >> The E3500 has much more power and the Ultra 1 is much quieter than the
> >> Ultra 5 but somehow it feels like my "home machine".
> 
> > It is very PC-like, esp in hardware design (IDE, "VGA" monitor connector,
> > etc.), and likely faster than the Ultra 1...
> 
> I'd say it really depends on your usage.  The Ultra1/2 tend to have better
> I/O than the 5/10.  Yes, the CPU is very likely faster in the 5, but that
> IDE bus is /garbage/.  IIRC, its only ATA33.  The onboard video is also
> lackluster.

On that note, are there *ANY* newer SPARC based Sun systems that have decent
PCI and IDE/SATA busses, and that aren't priced out of the "equivalent power"
market?

Or is that pretty much limited to their AMD based machines?





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