>> > It's a hardware problem. Your IT department
>> didn't
>> > by Ultrasparc laptops.
>>
>> Hehe!
>> You mean, those underpowered, *expensive* laptops
>> that you can only get from two or three
>> manufacturers, and which are so expensive, they don't
>> even dare list the price on their web sites openly,
>> and one has to call a sales rep just to find out what
>> the price is? I mean, am I buying a laptop or a
>> supercomputer?
>>
>> Seriously now, you were probably joking, but how is a
>> mom'n'pop going to know that something like that even
>> exists? UltraSPARC based laptops are known only to a
>> small population of even technically savvy.
>
> I just wanted to point out when IT is thinking of the word laptop that
> there options other than Apple notebooks. I assumed that RDI, NatureTech
> and Apple where on the same price level. I don't think you have to be
> technically savvy to use any one of these laptops.
At the risk of being flamed I can report that most technically savvy
people have never even heard of UltraSparc based laptops. They are
still *barely* aware that Solaris runs on x86 at all. If it isn't
Microsoft Windows or maybe, for the select few, an Apple based thing
then its just plain weird. An oddball. [1]
The OpenSolaris community seems to be full of people more aware than
most places. I don't know if that intelligence or knowledge is doing
us any good but at least we know what RISC is.
Dennis
[1] like having a copy of NeXTStep kicking about. Most IT staff that I
have run into have never even heard of NeXT or Apollo or VMS or ...
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