RE: POWER6 now or later?

How many fans do you have in your laptop?

Paul Nelson
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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Booth Martin
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 1:59 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: POWER6 now or later?

?? If they are porting the OS to a blade server then it would seem they
have resolved issues of heat?

Paul Nelson wrote:

Why not a laptop? Heat.

Paul Nelson
Cell 708-670-6978
Office 512-392-2577
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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Booth Martin
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 12:40 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: POWER6 now or later?

I am still not sure I understand the business case for a desktop unit.
Portability, for marketing I suppose? But after that very small need,
then what? Besides, if the goal is portability then why not a laptop?

If the battle is for price alone, then other solutions seem
quicker/easier/more responsive?



Paul Nelson wrote:

We've already had a desktop sized machine (P01). It didn't sell. Perhaps
with better pricing, the market would be better. System i's are already
being used in POS applications. Several vendors, including Responsive

Data

Systems, have software for POS that bolts on to other back office

packages.

Paul Nelson
Cell 708-670-6978
Office 512-392-2577
nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx


-----Original Message-----
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Of

Joe Pluta
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 8:35 AM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: POWER6 now or later?

From: Booth Martin

Help me a bit here, Joe. I am trying to visualize how I would use a
desktop System i. I have this hilarious mental image of twin-ax
spreading through the plant, all from my desk. So how would I use it?

One of the big complaints I hear is that nobody can afford a System i to
work on. With low-end machines under $10K now, I suspect a desktop would

be

closer to the $5K range making it available to just about anybody serious
about wanting to learn the machine.

I'm not a big rack guy myself, so I wouldn't mind a desktop or mini-tower
version of a System i in my own setup; my two System i servers take up a

lot

of room (and power and heat) in my network. I think a smaller form

factor

System i would also be a great fit in distributed environments. I could

see

a System i in a Point of Sale configuration, for example: one per local
store, with a self-contained retail store application that tied via WAN

to

a

central location.

Joe