[Noisebridge-discuss] Sun Enterprise 4500

[John Adams]

You will spend more money on power to run a 4500 than a Mac mini which is
way, way more powerful.

Toss it. ;)

-j

On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Andy Isaacson <adi at hexapodia.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 02:52:23PM -0700, Ronald Cotoni wrote:
> > There is a nice sun ultra 80 with quad CPUs we can make a fun workstation
> > out of.  It will be sorta fast and if people really want to learn solaris
> 10
> > or opensolaris, it would be a great machine for that.  Fast (relatively)
> and
> > up to 4 gig of ram which is still Usable these days.
>
> It'll be almost 1/8 fast as the 65W Athlon quad-core I bought for $500
> six months ago!  And draw only 400W of power to do it!  Awesome!
>
> The Athlon can run Solaris, too, if you're into that particular form of
> masochism.  This is San Francisco after all, we all get to fly our freak
> flag any way we choose.
>
> -andy
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