[rescue] Sun / Linux LX50

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Tuesday, September 17, 2002 at 02:51:14 (-0400), Patrick Giagnocavo +1.717.201.3366 wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [rescue] Sun / Linux LX50
>
> On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 04:24:27PM -0500, Bill Bradford wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 03:00:37PM -0400, Patrick Giagnocavo +1.717.201.3366 wrote:
> > > Is it just me, or is anyone else a little under-whelmed with the LX50
> > > specs and price point?
> > > $2800 for a rackmount 1U PC?  What are they smoking?  They even
> > > crippled it with PC133 RAM as opposed to Rambus or DDR.
> > 
> > Its just an Intel OEM motherboard and enclosure with a Sun bezel, with
> > slightly-modified Red Hat.
> 
> Wow, it is worse than it appears.  So in other words, I could buy
> something off pricewatch.com, slap it in a decent 1U case, and have
> the same thing for under a grand.

I suspect you couldn't do that with an equivalent motherboard and
equivalent quality integration.....

There's also the question of what potentially highly desirable BIOS mods
Sun may have made......

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