My review of the Sun Ultra 3 Mobile Workstation had made it into Issue 11 of Free Software Magazine.
Here’s a taster:
Sun have made some headlines in recent months through the release of their Ultra 20 workstation and a number of new servers based on the AMD CPUs. For some this is seen as major change of direction for a company that is well known for the use (and continued interest and development) of the SPARC (Scalable Processor Architecture) CPU. With so many new machines being based on the AMD CPU it will be surprising to some that Sun’s new mobile units are based on SPARC technology.
The Sun Ultra 3 Mobile Workstation is based an 64-bit UltraSPARC CPU. There are two main models, a 15″ unit that comes with a UltraSPARC IIi CPU at 550 or 650MHz, and a 17″ model with a 1.2GHz UltraSPARC IIIi CPU. Both are standard CPUs-these are not cut down or restricted versions designed to work within a laptop-and that is a key parameter for identifying the target market for the unit.
If you don’t get the vibes, I like this machine, and Solaris as a laptop operating system is pretty good too. In fact, I’ve start up a new blog, Laptop Solaris to talk about my experiences with this machine and Solaris on a laptop in general.
For the last 6 months I've been using a Sun Ultra3 Mobile Workstation as the main machine for development for Cheffy (and more recently using the T2000 for actual deployment testing).
The Ultra3 is a superb little workstation, but definitely not a laptop,
One of the key benefits of this machine is that it is completely SPARC compatible - you can move binaries from the Ultra3 and run them on a SPARC server, for example the T2000, without having to recompile or redevelop the project.
For an engineer visiting sites, this machine would be ideal as you could use the software and utilities and copy them over with ease. For a developer, it certainly lowers the normal barriers of entry to be able to build and compile applications that can be deployed straight from the laptop to your servers.
For the last 6 months I've been using a Sun Ultra3 Mobile Workstation as the main machine for development for Cheffy (and more recently using the T2000 for actual deployment testing).
The Ultra3 is a superb little workstation, but definitely not a laptop,
One of the key benefits of this machine is that it is completely SPARC compatible - you can move binaries from the Ultra3 and run them on a SPARC server, for example the T2000, without having to recompile or redevelop the project.
For an engineer visiting sites, this machine would be ideal as you could use the software and utilities and copy them over with ease. For a developer, it certainly lowers the normal barriers of entry to be able to build and compile applications that can be deployed straight from the laptop to your servers.
There is nothing like putting a project to bed to really soak up all your available time, especially when you have much more interesting things to do, like writing reviews of Parallels or Boot Camp.
Today I've been putting the final touches to the latest book, including running through many of the chapters and providing edits after comments from a variety of editors.
It never ceases to amaze me that no matter how much planning you can put into a project, the last few days always seem to be a mad rush, even if you are on time!
To help lighten the mood, if anybody has any examples of
There is nothing like putting a project to bed to really soak up all your available time, especially when you have much more interesting things to do, like writing reviews of Parallels or Boot Camp.
Today I've been putting the final touches to the latest book, including running through many of the chapters and providing edits after comments from a variety of editors.
It never ceases to amaze me that no matter how much planning you can put into a project, the last few days always seem to be a mad rush, even if you are on time!
To help lighten the mood, if anybody has any examples of
I'm just in the process of finishing up my review of Boot Camp, which will be posted here later, and thought I would just up a few of the other reports, reviews and other items that have appeared over the last few days:
First off, David Chartier at The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) thinks that Apple should offer Macs with OS X and Windows for businesses. He makes a strong point - if Apple provided their hardware running both OS X and Windows XP, they would have a very good offering into the enterprise, and would probably convert a good number of people over to OS X.
I'm just in the process of finishing up my review of Boot Camp, which will be posted here later, and thought I would just up a few of the other reports, reviews and other items that have appeared over the last few days:
First off, David Chartier at The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) thinks that Apple should offer Macs with OS X and Windows for businesses. He makes a strong point - if Apple provided their hardware running both OS X and Windows XP, they would have a very good offering into the enterprise, and would probably convert a good number of people over to OS X.
In case you missed it, this month is Apple's 30th Anniversary.
Those Apple fans and watchers among us are expecting big things, for example a new video iPod.
But today Apple made a surprise, but comparatively subtle, announcement: Boot Camp.
The software is an 83MB download, available right now, that makes the process of adding a partition and installing Windows XP SP2 (Home or Professional) onto your Intel-based Mac (iMac, Mini or MacBook Pro). The software even incorporates the bulk of the drivers you will need to get the best out of your XP on Mac installation. There's more information available here.