Dave (from the UK) wrote:

> EXCELLENT POINT
>
> Currently I'm using a rather old Sun Ultra 80 (4 x 450 MHz, 4 GB RAM)
> which must be worth all of a couple of hundred pounds now here in the UK.
>
> Also I have here a top end laptop (Sony VGN-SZ4XWN/C) which cost me over
> 1600 pounds ($3200) a few months back. It has 2 GB RAM, 120 GB disk, 2
> Duo Core T7200 2 GHz CPU, Nvida GeForce 7400 graphics, Windows Vista
> Ultimate etc etc. At the time I bought it, it was the second most
> expensive laptop in the Sony Vaio range.
>
> Basically the laptop is about as good as laptops go, but the old Sun is
> definitely more productive! I've spent the day writing UNIX scripts and
> C programs to process some experimental data. Doing this on a laptop via
> SSH or similar would have been a pain in the butt to say the least.
> Writing the code on Windows, without having a UNIX box at all would have
> been very painful.
>
>
> One other thing.
>
> I often play chess online, using the Internet Chess Club. I must admit I
> don't use a UNIX client (the Windows ones are generally better), but I
> do often use the client software for the chess server (Blitzin) on my
> SunPCi card in the Sun. Clearly this 733 MHz celeron processor SunPCi
> card, which as 1 GB of RAM is not as fast as my dual core 2 GHz laptop.
> But, it is a lot more plesent to use than the laptop.
>
>
> It seems there can be quite a few god arguments for keeping the Blade.
>

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