[SPARCbook] (no subject)

[Ken Hansen]

Some paid well over $1000, some paid as little as $200. My
two were somewhere in the middle... I just sent one off to a new
owner for a perfectly reasonable $800 (incl. shipping), IMHO.

If $1000 is your budget, I would suggest either looking for a
real good deal on one of these units (unlikely) or look for a
refurbished x86 laptop with a 12" display, uses standard IDE
drives, etc. You could run anyone of many OSs on it, and
prices are quite good these days...

For comparison, a reasonable SB 3GX would sell for $750,
and a nice big HD (6.4G) would run about $450 more, then
upgrade the RAM to 64 Meg (nice, but not huge by current
standards) for another $125 +/-. That puts you at $1325 for
a 7 pound laptop with 1 hour battery life and a 10.4" screen.

If the SPARC CPU is of little interest to you, then you should
try and avoid paying the current premium for it.

HTH,

Ken
khansen at njcc.com

-----Original Message-----
From: krakxl at fcmail.com <krakxl at fcmail.com>
To: sparcbook at sunhelp.org <sparcbook at sunhelp.org>
Date: Saturday, December 04, 1999 1:27 AM
Subject: [SPARCbook] (no subject)


>I know I already posted this message, but I'm a little more informed now. I
want to purchase a sparcbook. 1, 2, 3 what ever. I can spend about a grand.
TOPS. I know that a few of you bought your from Ross
>for like 5/600 dollars. So cmon! Be nice to the newbie. I don't
>care if you take out the harddrive (as long as you let me have the sled)
although I understand installing solaris and or any other OS is quite a
chore.
>
>I would also buy a _86, but I wouldn't pay as much.