[rescue] Retorical question: Anyone given "novices" Sun boxes todisplace Win systems?

[Randy Bowie]

eeeewwww! e-machines!  I'll take scrapple!   :)

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Sandau [mailto:ssandau at bath.tmac.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 5:54 AM
To: rescue at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [rescue] Retorical question: Anyone given "novices" Sun
boxes todisplace Win systems?


www.cc-solutions.com has some very inexpensive ($150 and up) refurbished
systems for sale. The $150 is a 333 system with no monitor, but if all
you *really* want is to do email and web browsing, that'd do file. Might
be a good idea if money is a concern.

Just a thought...


Ken Hansen wrote:
> 
> My father-in-law has an old Compaq P100 laptop that he
> uses for email access, at 28.8K with a 14" monitor. I
> have spent way too much time looking for a suitable
> upgrade for him, and I am wondering if anyine has any
> exp. dropping a Sun workstation on a newbies desk and
> pointing out it runs Netscape/email just like a PC...
> 
> He is being forced to upgrade, since he got infected
> with one of the many PC viruses, and he need 32 Meg to
> run an anti-virus program (he only has 16 Meg). Before
> I let him reach into his pocket and buy a proprietary
> memory module for his laptop ($25-100), I was thinking
> where shoul dhe really put his dollars?
> 
> My first thought was a $400-500 PCm which will include
> a faster modem (56K), and orders of magnatude better
> performance.
> 
> But what about a mid-line SPARCstation? Like an Ultra
> 1-170e with a nice creator framebuffer, 128+ Meg RAM,
> and a 4 Gig HD (or 2x 2 Gig)? In theory, it will suit
> his needs, and it will just run and run and run
> without incident... Hell, Internet Explorer/Outlook
> Express might even be reasonable.
> 
> A final, third option would be a low-cost all-in-one
> Power Mac, like the 5400/180 MHz 603e system, but RAM
> is expensive (based on a quick review of the market).
> 
> The Sun could be upgraded to 256 Meg for low $$
> ($10/32 Meg DIMM) and would be all but immune to most
> viruses. Downside is that his connectivity is dial-up,
> so I'd need to add a 56K external modem to the mix.
> Also, cute executables from friends most likely
> wouldn't work on his machine, but he *swears* he is
> only really interested in email...
> 
> Thought/experiences?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ken
> 
> =====
> Ken
> n2vip at yahoo.com
> 
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