Re: gEDA-user: wont be watching list :(

[Dave McGuire <mcguire@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 17, 2006, at 5:35 AM, John Sheahan wrote:
> > >   Marc.  Get yourself a nice used Sun machine.  You can pick up 
> > > something like an Ultra2 for a few tens of dollars these days,
> > Old workstation hardware (of any variety) is also generally reliable.
>
> and then there is all that fan noise from many Sun boxes.
> It might make them reliable, but it does'n make them nice to be near 
> for mine.

  Quality construction is what makes them reliable, more so than lots 
of fans.

  That said, though...some Suns are loud, others are not.  The 
high-pitched whine of a tiny Netra X1 can often be heard over pretty 
much everything else in an average data center, yet an E450...a 
quad-processor machine with twenty drive bays...large enough that I can 
just barely lift it...ran completely unnoticed in my dining room (!) 
for weeks.

            -Dave

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