Quote:>Has anyone got their hands on a Blade 100 Workstation yet, Sun is
>selling a 500 MHz version for $950.00, ... what are your views of this
>system,
When I called SunStore and talked to sales person the other day,
they had no idea what I was talking about when I asked them about
the IEEE 1394 port in the new machines. They did not even know
what 'firewire' is. (yet, it is listed as one of the ports on
the those machines).
It seems Sun new machine, the blade 100, does not yet support firewire
hard drive devices on that port. Only some kind of limited firewire
digital camera are supported. (they do not even list of their web site
what devices are supported, one has to call to find out).
Here we are, looking at the latest and greates that Sun can come up with,
and they still do not support the very basic IEEE 1394 devices (hard disk),
which windows supportd for more than a year now, and linux support as well,
and apple, except Sun.
isn't this pathetic or what?
I am not buying this machine.
may be in 5 years from now Sun will figure how to add support to firewire
harddrives, once they finish .com'ing the world.
pete.