[dundee] Opinions on the Sun Ultra 24 Box - Good bang-per-buck?

[Paul Lancaster]

> 1) Is the graphics card any good?  I don't care for games, but I hate
> seeing screen updates!  And how does it compare to the Nvidia Quadro
> FX 370???
> 2) Is 2gig adequate for typical use + some background virtualisation
> (of pretty minimal machines) + Netbeans & java development?  I suspect
> it'd easily handle it, but that 4gig would be better...
>   
4 gig would be better, especially if you start databases in the background.
> 3) Is quad extreme noticably better than the intel core 2 quad?
>   
Extreme  are normally unlocked, and overclocked - and expensive.

Ever thought of   dual socket server (2 x quad xeon or phenoms), 2 
standard cpu's are arround the same price as an extreme cpu, and you get 
8 cores :)

Paul