[SunRescue] Best Value Sun for $1000?

[Brian McCloskey]

847-675-8000 megan thomas


>From: "Hatle, Steven J." <shatle at vue.com>
>Reply-To: rescue at sunhelp.org
>To: "'rescue at sunhelp.org'" <rescue at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: RE: [SunRescue] Best Value Sun for $1000?
>Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 15:38:05 -0500
>
>Do you have a website or a phone number for Forsythe?
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Brian McCloskey [mailto:checkinmystyle at hotmail.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2000 3:13 PM
>To: rescue at sunhelp.org
>Subject: Re: [SunRescue] Best Value Sun for $1000?
>
>
>o.k., i stand corrected as far as the upgrade to the processor is 
>concerned,
>
>however the graphics still suck under 98 and nt4 compared to what you can 
>do
>
>with a creator 3d card. for $1000 an ultra 2 is still a *much* better
>machine, and i would even personally prefer an ultra 1 170E or 200E with
>creator 3d cards.
>
>i got mine from a leasing company in skokie illinois after it was 
>terminated
>
>off lease. they sell a lot of nice sun equipment (a lot of it much higher
>end than i have a budget for unfortunately, but lots of good deals). its
>called forsythe technology and you should talk to megan thomas.
>unfortunately, this is a secondary business for them and they're not really
>set up to provide an inventory, so you should have a clear idea of what you
>are looking for when you call them. their inventory comes in waves. one 
>week
>
>they'll have 30 ultra 1's to get rid of, and the next they'll have only
>3500's and 5500's. it just depends on whose lease terminated that week.
>
>-wu
>
>
> >From: Bill Bradford <mrbill at mrbill.net>
> >Reply-To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> >To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> >Subject: Re: [SunRescue] Best Value Sun for $1000?
> >Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 13:11:30 -0500
> >
> >On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 03:28:33PM +0000, Brian McCloskey wrote:
> > > the ultra 5 is not a bad machine, but again the processor is not
> >upgradeable
> >
> >Wrong.  You can swap in a 400 or 440mhz CPU.  The CPU is a removable
> >module.
> >
> > > and they are ide based by default, which also isn't horrible but 
>doesn't
> > > allow for easy hookup of peripherals unless you add a pci scsi card.
> >there
> > > is a very well supported symbios pci scsi card out there, but i think
> >its a
> > > bit hard to find these days (worth tracking down though since it 
>should
> >be
> > > under $100 and sun's card is around $500 i think). speaking from my
> >personal
> > > experience the sunpci card is not going to be what you want. its not 
>too
> > > useful under any circumstances really, but for playing games its going
> >to
> > > really suck.
> >
> >Were you using Win98?  Under NT4, the "shared" video performance is 
>great,
> >and its even better if you have a separate monitor for the SunPCi card.
> >
> >Bill
> >
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