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  3. December 2006

RE: Saving the System i: Fight Rather Than Switch

Just trying to add some reality into the mix.


Fair enough, and I'd agree with your pricing (roughly), however, I think
the point was, those two machines, while costing the same, aren't even
close in processing power. A 8-way Xeon w/8Gig will blow the doors off
that System i spec. 

Are there cheaper System i's, yes. And there are cheaper Dells too. 2
Quad-code Xeons is a _lot_ of processing power!

Besides, let's face it, the spec is silly anyway. If you've got an 8-way
machine you're not loading it w/4 146Gig 15K drives and SQL Server,
you'd be so disk-bound it wouldn't be funny.

-Walden

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