[geeks] Apple vs. Sun

[Bill Bradford]

On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 12:27:40PM -0500, Chris Hedemark wrote:
> Sun has IDE HDD.  Apple has SCSI.

Apple ships IDE by default.  You pay extra for SCSI.

> Sun has 100Mbps ethernet.  Apple has 1Gbps.

I have yet to see many people at all using gigabit ethernet over
copper.  Apple does this because it looks better on the specs, and 
probably only costs about $10 more.

> Obviously in an all Sun shop there are advantages to low end Sun 
> workstations.  Or if you want to port your UNIX app to Solaris and want 
> to spend the least money possible doing it.  I don't have a problem 
> with the Blade 150 other than its price.  Either beef up the hardware 
> to match the price, or drop the price to match the hardware.

You forget that a LOT more Apple machines are sold than Sun 
workstations - so, accordingly, they're cheaper to produce.  The 
more of an item you produce, the cheaper it is to produce.

I'd also say, again, that more people buy Apple boxes as a 
"general desktop" than for engineering/scientific use.  You
wont see Sun machines sold to people at a CompUSA.

Bill

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bill bradford
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