I too was looking at buying a Sun machine for my home. The configs are nice and customizable, but the price is too high. I finally bought from dell (http://www.dell.co.in). Dell also allows you to customize your system and order online.
I bought a customized Dell Inspiron 530 for 40.5K. The price starts at 32K. I had some difficulty installing Solaris on it though... :(. There are workarounds, but I would have been happy if it could have installed smoothly. If you considering to buy this, then let me know and I'll share what issues I faced. Dell Precision is listed in Solaris HCL, but is expensive. Of course a little bit less expensive than Sun Ultra 20. ~Kini On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 2:45 AM, Manish Chakravarty <manishchaks at gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi BOSUG, > > I was planning to buy a SUN machine to use as my main workstation for > sometime now. > They seem to be too costly for me > > I recently came across this: > http://in.sun.com/webstore/workstations/ultra20/globaledu.jsp > > This promotional offer is for Education and Research sector. > can the definition of "research" be extrapolated a little bit to include the > tinkering we do with the latest Nevada builds everytime they come out ;) > (ok , bad joke!) > > Will SUN be willing to sell their hardware to the community members at these > rates? > > > -- > > > Manish Chakravarty > http://manish-chaks.livejournal.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > ug-bosug mailing list > List-Unsubscribe: mailto:ug-bosug-unsubscribe at opensolaris.org > List-Owner: mailto:ug-bosug-owner at opensolaris.org > List-Archives: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=54 > -- Jayakara Kini
