As for 21364’s and Blade 2K’s, there’s little point dreaming about things I can’t have, I’ll just buy their little brothers, which are all still eminently capable and well manufactured machines.SLIMTYPE DVD A DS8. There are other UI’s for it however (even KDE, or Ximian’s Gnome which is reputed to be considerably faster), and I find CDE sufficient most of the time – except for when it has too look impressive, naturally.Īlphas are my main interest but I class them differently – an obsession. It’s true Sun’s Gnome 2 is slow, but it is usable, but do concede I might have less patience if I’d bought new and not from ebay. SPARC/Solaris is quite unique in its own way, and I can see myself buying more in the future. Of all the “unix” hardware UltraSPARC may well be the slowest but there is something about Sun hardware and equipment that I do particularly like (as I sit typing this on a Sun Ray 150 – for the uninitiated, a glorified completely dumb X terminal). I have to confess to being very interested in an Ultra 60 myself (to augment 2 single CPU systems I’ve previously acquired). Whew- too rich for my blood! I’d almost do it if it had a 600 MHz PXA255 tho- the S160 only has a PXA250 400 MHz, not much faster than my Jornada 720. I’d sell my Jornada 720 and iBook and buy one… except it costs $1250 at Dynamism. Unlike the Newton, this PDA does exist- 400 MHz XScale, 128 MB RAM, 800x480x16 badass screen, built-in Wifi, WinCE.NET 4.0. Failling that, I’d settle for a Samsung Nexio S160 running Dynapad R1.0. (sounds like a little, but it’s a lot- the 2100 had about 400k of what one would consider “RAM” and it did pretty well!) Res would have to be 800×480 or so, physicalscreen size being about the same as a 2100s, but without all the weight and bulk “framing” the screen. A new Newton MP3000 platform with a 600 MHz XScale PXA 255, 128 MB of Flash storage, and 16 MB of object heap. Sincei t wasn’t in the list, I’ll go ahead and put my vote in for the hardware I desire. It was funny- the OS felt about as fast as OS X 10.2 does on my iBook G3/500.
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