Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!rice!uw-beaver!fluke!kurt From: kurt@tc.fluke.COM (Kurt Guntheroth) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: A different review of the A3000 Message-ID: <1990May9.235842.2279@tc.fluke.COM> Date: 9 May 90 23:58:42 GMT References: <135251@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <135378@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc., Everett, WA Lines: 10 Gosh, what's the configured price for a Sun4-whatever-is-cheapest WITH local disk and software? $5K? $10K? $15K? Maybe the sun is faster. Maybe. But what about graphics? Are we comparing b&w to color? (Are we comparing 12" to 19"?) How much memory does the OS eat? What about dollars per MIP? Of course the 3000 isn't a sun. That would be silly. Maybe its just a better deal. Who needs all those MIPs at home or in a small business anyway. And if I was doing solid modelling, I'd need more than a sun anyway.