* [email protected] <[email protected]> [2010-06-23 01:34]: > Dell made some incredible Optiplex models that were white, using P3's > from 450MHz to about 1.2Ghz. I have several at work in production > service, and some of them are 10 years old.
heck, I have systems that old in production. the point is - new setups using these just doesn't make sense. heck, at the very same second where I had to change ANYTHING hardware-wise on them, they get replaced. if they don't get replaced anyway. > The disks aren't, but the > machine proper is. They draw more power than an Atom, thats for > certain, but they are rock solid, and built FAR better than most things > today. Me, I'm the IT department where I work. The calculus of spending > more on electricty for systems so stable that they are more likely to > die when the power dies is pretty obvious to me. ;-) as rock solid as they might be, at this age, the likeliness of them dieing anytime soon is growing. fast. > I've watched everything get bigger, faster and cheaper, but usually at > the cost of quality. This includes my ThinkPads, sigh. I've had several > conversations where it was admitted that fewer smoothig capicators > were used because a bean-counter saw they could save money by > using fewer. Boards aren't cleaned any more--I have some great > fingerprint samples of several techs from China. quality is an issue. i can only say that i am very happy with pretty much anything i ever got from supermicro. but then i don't buy the newest and shiniest, ever. -- Henning Brauer, [email protected], [email protected] BS Web Services, http://bsws.de Full-Service ISP - Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS Services Dedicated Servers, Rootservers, Application Hosting
