On Mar 13, 5:10 pm, Thomas Tornblom <tho...@Hax.SE> wrote:
> Huge <H...@nowhere.much.invalid> writes:
> > On 2007-03-13, Dennis Grevenstein <dennis.grevenst...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> An Ultra60 is not a small machine IMHO. It's a pretty
> >> heavy and solid machine.
>
> > Also noisy and chucks out a lot of heat.
>
> Yup, which is why I have just replaced mine with a small 1.5 GHz Via
> C7 based shoebox, which is very quiet and draws around 40W, instead of
> the 150 - 200W of the U60, besides beeing way faster :-)
>
>
>
> > I love it. )

The Ultra-60 and the Blade-1000 both are large, heavy, noisy, power-
sucking machines and the shuttle-type PC's indeed are smaller and
quieter. If all you are doing is web-surfing and light develpment the
shuttle-type PC's are a good choice, If you are doing heavy numerical
work the Sparc's beat the PC's hands down. Using my radar analysis
code and numerical modeling code it takes an AMD Opteron with 3 times
the clock speed to equal the 900Mhz UltraSparc-III in my Blade 1000.
Since I can buy a well-equiped Blade-1000 for under $400 I have a
Blade-1000 at home. I can buy a Ultra-10 with a Creator-3D for $15 and
put a $5 SiiG ATA-100 card along with 250gb disk in the Ultra-10 the
Sparc wins on cost.