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RE: Laptops as servers?

  • From: Bill Woodcock
  • Date: Thu Jun 15 04:04:52 2000 
    > We recently started looking at some of the new Sun Netra T1's they are fast,
    > 1u high, come in 110AC or 12 (maybe 24 I forget offhand) volts DC. They are
    > real workhorses and perform great for the size and all. 

Yup, we've been buying the Netra T1s like popcorn.  They're really
kick-ass little boxes.  Single Ultrasparc 440mhz, with a gig of RAM, and
two front-accessible hot-swap 36gb disks.

    > If you configure it
    > with low memory (sun gets a lot of cash for their memory) they are pretty
    > cost effective.

You can just buy the RAM 3rd party.  It's all made by the same vendor,
anyway, that I've seen so far.

                                -Bill