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  1. Comment - Sun's $50 Million Extreme Makeover

    (May 31, 2005 - 3:00 PM)

    AMD and Intel couldn't touch a SPARC/Solaris machine if they tried. You show me an Intel or AMD box with 72 working processors and over 9TB of RAM... You're on crack! Sun, IBM, and HP won't die. AMD is already eating Intel's cake and AMD is hitting limits in technology. Sure... cheap commodity machines tied together using Linux are lovely. I heartily recommend them. But if you want real power per machine, Intel and AMD aren't even playing in the big leagues.

    You obviously haven't had the opportunity to use real servers in the real world. SPARC/Solaris time since restart approaches years. Intel time since restart approaches months... if lucky!

    It's your ignorance and inexperience that leads you in your beliefs. If you think Sun is going anywhere, you need to stay in the tech industry for another 20 years and then reevaluate your position.

  2. Comment - Sony PlayStation 3 Unveiled

    (May 17, 2005 - 8:54 AM)

    Either way you look at it, we're all better off because of this rivalry.

    These console specs make my home PC look like a kids toy and it runs the latest games without a hitch.

    Who cares which is better!

    Buy both and mod them! You'll have the two most powerful machines ever in your home, with all the manufacturer strings cut. BluRay/no BluRay, Cell/PowerPC, ATi/Nvidia, who cares! Love them both... I know I will.

    For all you puritans out there who say "don't mod, it's pirating"... If I like a game and want to play more then the first two levels, I'll buy it. If it's crap, and can't hold my attention for more than two levels, these publishers/developers should be ashamed and don't deserve to be paid. I won't keep it on my HDD anyhow.

    I want my media on my terms! I'll pay if it's worth the cost but if a developer is just trying to rip off the customer, they deserve what they get. Value for money! We can all tell a good game from a bad one.

    When I waited for Brute Force (touted by the big game sites as "the next Halo"), paid $65 for it and played it for all of 15 minutes, I took my machine out for a mod the next day. Fool me once...