[wellylug] Computer System Vendor Wgtn

[Rob Giltrap]

Brent Wood wrote:
> --- Rob <rob at kiwihq.com> wrote
>> Having seen first hand the baking ovens, anechoic chambers etc used in 
>> doing the grueling testing Sun does on it's servers I can definitely say 
>> that buying from the big guys helps. The small players simply can't 
>> warrant the expenditure on doing this rigorous type of testing.
>>     
> Hmm. The question related to a pretty simple home PC. Are you really suggesting
> Sun have a realistic offering for this market? Or that this level of testing &
> price is a good idea for a home PC?
That wasn't my point at all. The discussion had gone off on a tangent
talking about server reliability.

Sun doesn't really target the home PC market, but I must say that my
Ultra20 (AMD) workstation is a REALLY nice box and has been super stable
especially since it runs 24*7 at 100% CPU doing Mersenne Prime hunting.