[SPARCbook] Buying a SPARCbook 3

[Tyson J. Lambert]

Isn't the 85 mhz a 3GS and not a 3GX?  If I'm wrong on this someone please
let me know.  I have both a 3GS and a 3GX (85 and 110mhz respectivly) and
would be interested to know if there is a difference, processor freq
aside.

thanks

-Ty 


On Fri, 19 May 2000, Ken Hansen wrote:

> An 85 Mhz CPU would indicate a 3GX, IIRC, and the screen should be an
> 800x600 TFT screen of 10.4".
> 
> 800x600 is pretty usable, 640x480 is rough - but workable - remember
> most windows managers (like CDE, etc.) use a significant amount of
> screen real estate at 640x480.
> 
> As for performance, you will be suffering a poorer memory design,
> so that will reduce system performance relative to a similar SS/5,
> but I think the difference would be less than 10% - the real hit
> comes from the framebuffer (not upgradeable on sparcbook) and the
> disk (SS5 use ultra SCSI, Sparcbook uses an emulated SCSI-2 (FAST
> SCSI) on an IDE drive in many cases).
> 
> Is an 85 Mhz SS5 clone usable - certainly, but it is far from the
> performance of a P166 laptop that can usually be gotten for about
> the same money, IMHO. Of course, the P166 laptop is not nearly as
> cool or distictive as the sparcbook. And the keyboard on a
> sparcbook 3 is *very* nice (I really like lexmark keyboards)...
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Ken
> n2vip at bellatlantic.net
> 
>  
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > I have been offered a SPARCbook 3 of currently unknown model. I know it's
> > 85MHz (so that makes it a 3XT?), not sure of screen size/resolution.
> > 
> > Was the 85MHz SPARCbook 3 available with 9.4" 640x480 or 10.4" 800x600
> > screens?
> > 
> > How usable is a 640x480 screen? Is the performance of the SB3 comparable
> > to an equivalent MHz SPARCstation 5?
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > 
> > Chris Powell.
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