Re: reliable hardware

[chuck <chuck@snew.com>]

Telesys does well too.  Smart folk, small RESPONSIVE company that
is anal amount the memory they buy and the parts they use.  Work
has some "BSD BOX"es which comes with FreeBSD - I have yet to have
time to subvert them to an OS that wasn't born on that bastard
hardware platform.

Too many low cost PC's have terrible power supplies and awful
cooling.

On the side of Lightness and Good: Alpha's just rock.  Older Suns
with HyperSparc chips work really, really well (oh the joy when I
zilched Solaris 2.8Beta moments after I got a successful Hypersparc
kernel).

An Apple G3/G4 will kick the ass of most PC servers for similiar
price (dunno state of booting straight to BSD yet).

The iBook runs a friends NetBSD just wonderfully.

My point is that Intel is just one choice.  There are many,
faster, more efficient options.

Anyone know if the Cobalt Cube (mips) works?  Or how the ARM32 work
is going which might allow a healing of the NetWinder?

chuck

Quoting Nick Holland (nhollan@home.com):
> Following comments are all not based on OpenBSD support, but mostly
> Windows workstations and Novell servers.
> 
> I'm gonna put in my vote in for Dell, as well.
> 
> They seem to have the best tech support of anyone out there my clients
> have delt with.  They seem to be very quick to take care of even
> low-end workstation problems.  None of my clients have had a Dell
> server die, so I can't say how they respond on the server end (not
> that it would matter for my clients -- I've got most of them using
> full on-site redundancy, so they are their own spare parts house), but