[rescue] Sun crushes the used Sun market

[Shawn Wallbridge]

Lionel Peterson wrote:
>>From: Patrick Giagnocavo 717-201-3366 <patrick at zill.net>
>>Date: Mon Jun 27 20:25:41 CDT 2005
>>To: rescue at sunhelp.org
>>Subject: [rescue] Sun crushes the used Sun market
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>>They just announced an $895 Opteron system, or, if you pay $30 a month for 3 years, they give you the hardware, plus Sun Studio 10 and some other software, plus they give you a Sun support contract (which I suppose lets you access all the stuff that used to be free).
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> Anyone getting one? I remember Mr. Bill indicated he planned on getting one, and I may as well. Anyone know the difference between "standard" 3 year warranty (included with purchase) and "Silver" support contract (at $300+)?
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> I'm considering the following setup:
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> Base system $895
> Keyboard    $ 45 (mouse included?!?!?)
> 512 Meg     $140 (takes memory to 1 Gig)
> Double RAM  $  0 (coupon to double memory to 2 Gig, ECC :^P
> NVS280      $110 (can't justify $400+ graphics, and base video is so minimal)
>             ----
> Total     $1,190
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> I'll swap out the 80 Gig SATA drive for dual 250 Gig SATA (does anyone know if the system supports hardware SATA RAID 0/1? The white paper I downloaded only talks about RAID 0/1 under WinXP X64).
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> Also, I wonder when the dual core version will ship? I'm tempted to go for the 90 day try-and-buy deal, if the dual core system will be out in the next 90 days...
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Dual core Opteron's are out, but only in the 8xx series (4+ proc 
machines) which are _VERY_VERY_ expensive ($3700/processor).

The Dual core 1xx or 2xx series won't be out until early next year from 
what I have read.

shawn