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Hello,

> to be used as a remote workstation (I mean the machine will be
> headless, serial console and I will connect to it via xdm), what is
> worth :
>=20
> * sunblade 150 / 650 MHz / 1Go RAM
> * sunblade 100 / 500 MHz / 512Mo RAM
>=20
> the machine would be a "standard" workstation - xfce4 or fvwm2 /
> firefox or links / thunderbird or mutt / a bit of gimp / much of
> gqview, rox, album.
>=20
> the blade 150 is more than twice the price the blade 100.
> that's why I'd like to know if the 150Mhz CPU diff and 512Mo of more
> RAM would make a real difference ; especially because I am not sure
> about how CPU acts when the machin is a XDM server.

Since I don't know the price I have no idea what the difference would be
;)
But, as far as I can tell there's no such thing as too much RAM,
especially not on sparc64. IIRC the blades need PC133 SDRAM with ECC (
or at least parity ), half a gig of that might well be worth the
difference.

have fun
Michael

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