It is nice to see Sun's uniprocessor SPEC results finally looking
competitive again. For example, for the W1100z Sun reports CINT2000
base = 1434, CINT2000 Rate base = 16.6. Both of thes numbers are
quite respectable compared to the competition (though they're not the
absolute top), and they blow away the best uniprocessor SPARC numbers
that Sun has published (642 and 7.44, respectively, for a 1.2 GHz Sun
Blade 2000). Too bad specbench.org isn't publishing the floating
point numbers yet.

I noticed a few other things:

Solaris x86 64-bit support is not available until Solaris 10 ("early
2005" -- could that mean as late as June 2005?).

<http://www.sun.com/desktop/products/graphics/> hasn't been updated to
reflect the new graphics options available from Sun. (It'd be amusing
to see the NVIDIA Quadro FX 3000 in a head-to-head comparison against
the Sun XVR-4000....)

You can shoehorn only 4 GB RAM into a W1110z now, as 2 GB DIMMs
aren't available until next month. The W2100z holds double that.

The W2100z uses Ultra320 SCSI. Is desktop FC-AL dying?

PS. I wish Sun wouldn't keep mentioning its "disruptive pricing
model" in its press releases. I don't wanna be disrupted.