I've been very interested and intrigued by the design of the IA64 and am on the verge of buying one, probably a ZX2000
But first I would like to ask how satisfied people are with their itaniums. Do you get the performance you expected? Does compiled code take good advantage of the multiple execution units? How complete is the debian distro for ia64? Same as for ia32? I tend to KDE for the desktop and would plan to use the QuadroPro Nvidia card. I see on Nvidia site they do have the driver set. Any problems? Also, has HP sales given up or are they so busy that can't talk to me? As a potential buyer of one low end machine, I don't expect a lot excitement on their part but they could at least answer email. Richard Harke
