[geeks] Re: geeks digest, Vol 1 #248 - 15 msgs

[Ken Hansen]

I had the same reaction - that is an *incredible* price for a system with such limitations (no
CD-ROM, 2.5" IDE HD, no on-board console interface (maybe a serial port, too lazy to look again
;^), and no *sound*!)

For similar money a dual-pentium whup-ass system could be built-up using nice things like
Ultra-160 SCSI, hot-swap, internal CD-ROM, onboard console, etc...

**OR** you could get *two* Sun Blade 100s, and spend the last $500 on upgrades for both of them!

That is serious money for an *interesting* design exercise system, IMHO...

Ken

geeks-request at sunhelp.org wrote:

> <snip>
> Message: 12
> Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 07:56:21 -0500
> From: Bill Bradford <mrbill at mrbill.net>
> To: geeks at mrbill.net
> Subject: [geeks] briq
> Reply-To: geeks at sunhelp.org
>
> I finally looked at the BriQ.  Thought "woah, cool".
>
> Then I saw the price.
>
> Fuck that, for the entry-level G3 price, i can get a G4
> tower from Apple...
>
> Maybe for $500, but not for $1600.
>
> I can see where these would be *great* for clusters, however.