[SunHELP] Re: [Rumors] SunBlade 100 Page is up!!

[Fletcher, Joe]

Looks like old product in a new box to me. Think the Compaq Alpha DS10 is
more interesting
insofar as it's similar guts but with a rather more useful CPU. The EV6-600
is in the Ultra III
performance range but for rather less money.



-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Rijk [mailto:chris at ivision.co.uk]
Sent: 27 February 2001 13:41
To: rumors at sunhelp.org
Cc: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Subject: [SunHELP] Re: [Rumors] SunBlade 100 Page is up!!




On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Chris Petersen wrote:

>While not linked to the main pages yet or anything, the sun blade 100 page
>is now up @ Sun:
>
>http://www.sun.com/desktop/sunblade100
>
>The picture is, well, interesting to say the least.  Actually, the case is
>reminiscint more of the styling of the later E class boxes, like the 420R.

I didn't think it looks particularly good...



>Next question:  Is the Sun Blade 100 just replacing Ultra 5s, and can we
>expect an Ultra 10 replacement as well??  Hmm....

http://yahoofin.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-4955230.html

>However, the older Ultra 5 and 10 models won't be discontinued, Kohout
>said, because the newer models come only with version 8 of Sun's
>Solaris operating system and some customers still use version 7.


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