[geeks] Apple vs. Sun

[Chris Hedemark]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

This is a carryover of the Java discussion.

Budget: ~$2,000
Goal: Decent desktop UNIX workstation.

 From Apple I can get:
Power MacIntosh
Dual PPC G4 CPU's at 857MHz ea., 256K L2 cache, 1MB L3 cache
133MHz system bus
256MB PC2100 DDR SDRAM
Combo drive (DVD/CD-RW)
UltraSCSI controller
36GB Ultra160 SCSI HDD
Nvidia GeForce4 MX dual display w/32MB DDR
Gigabit ethernet
audio
USB
Firewire
OS X 10.2.1
- ---
Cost: $2,019


 From Sun I can get:
Sun Blade 150
650MHz UltraSPARC IIi CPU, 512K L2 cache
Sun PGX64 graphics
  256 MB (1 @ 256-MB DIMM)
40 GB EIDE HDD
10/100BASE-T  ethernet
USB/Firewire
CD-ROM
Smart card reader
Solaris 8
- ---
Cost: $1,995


Now picking on Apple for being overpriced/underpowered seems to be the 
favorite sport of a lot of people.  About the only really tangible 
thing in favor of the Sun is that Solaris is clearly a more mature OS 
than OS X (though OS X is rapidly improving).  Also the L2 cache on the 
Sun is bigger than that of the Apple, though there is no L3 cache (at 
least none advertised) on the Sun.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (Darwin)

iD8DBQE9yUZ2YPuF4Zq9lvYRAu9RAKCoWetp8cNYRPDRBOCD13nND/N5UwCfXqIS
r6QXaARJsBbJzTM9KzCCVzc=
=esfG
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----