[geeks] Needed: A good sparc workstation

[Francois Dion]

On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 7:29 AM, Joshua Boyd <jdboyd at jdboyd.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 01:42:02PM +0200, gsm at mendelson.com wrote:
>
>> I think this has more to do with different encoding than with the speed
>> of FireFox. I recently puchased (for next to nothing) a 667mHz 15" Powerbook
>> and it also plays MP4 avi files fine using VLC or QT.
>> It does not play flash videos with any useable speed, and switching to
>> safari 4 with its much faster Java engine did not help.
>
> Yes, FF3 being sluggish and flash video no longer working well are two
> different issues, I'm sure.

FF3 is way faster than FF2 under solaris. Opera is even faster. All of
them are more stable on sparc than x86 too, for some reason.

Francois