[geeks] Wish lists

[Ken Hansen]

As a man with both, a Voyager (Thanks Pete!) and *two* SParcbooks, I can tell you that the Sparcbook is a more affordable machine.

The RAM for a Voyager in *unavailable* - at any price. Custom only to Sun, only tihs machine. I wouldn't even think about touching a Voyager without *MAX* RAM (80 Meg). HD is trivial, but expensive ($400 for a 6.4 Gig HD, or about $200 for a SCSI<->IDE adapter) for either system.

Sparcbook uses low-profile 72 pin RAM, up to 64 Meg easily, the leap to 128 Meg is over $1K.

Batteries for the Voyager are hard/impossible to find - SParcbook batteries are available from Tadpole still ($150?).

The Voyager is supported under Solaris 7, currently the Tadpole is supported under Solaris 2.6 for free, via FTP from Tadpole - Solaris 7 support is available for a price (several hundred dollars, IIRC).

The Voyager is cool, the Sparcbook is much more practical.

A SB 3GX would probably be about $600-800, depending on RAM/HD/accessories, a Voyager is anybodys guess, the market is so thin on them. A SB 3GS would be about $200 less, from what I have seen.

Ken
(No, I am not offering to sell my SPARCbooks or Voyager)

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Byrne [mailto:chris at chrisbyrne.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 7:55 PM
To: geeks at sunhelp.org
Subject: [geeks] Wish lists



The thread on Bill finally getting his SS1000 (congrats on the great find
Bill) has brought up the subject of "wish lists" in my mind.

So anyway here's my "realistic" wish list i.e. I actually have a chance in
hell of getting this stuff some time soon.

SS voyager, 12" color 80mb. I just like the idea of a sparc laptop. One of
the SparcBook/tadpole systems would do as well, but they're a hell of a lot
more expensive.

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