Sun has cut prices and increased performance on some of its workstations. The Sun BladeTM 150 workstation will feature double the memory and disk capacity and a DVD-ROM at no additional cost. The Sun BladeTM 2000 workstation will be available for $3,000 less than the base configuration, a price reduction of 30 percent.

Sun Blade 150 Workstation

The Sun Blade 150 workstation will offer up to two internal 80 GB of 7200-RPM EIDE hard drives to provide high internal storage capacity. The base memory will double to 256 MB of RAM for the small configuration and 512 MB for the medium configuration. The workstation will come standard with a DVD-ROM and optional 48x CD read/write option. These performance enhancements offer 83 percent better price/SPECint performance and 81 percent better price/SPECfp performance than IBM's RS/6000 44P model 170. The performance enhanced Sun Blade 150 workstation will be available to customers on November 20, 2003.

Sun Blade 2000 Workstation

The Sun Blade 2000 workstation price has been reduced by $3,000 U.S. for the base configuration. The Sun Blade 2000 workstation has up to two 1.2 GHz UltraSPARCR III processors, eight MB of Level 2 cache per CPU and a maximum of eight GB of RAM. The workstation now offers 67 percent better price/SPECint performance and 73 percent better price/SPECfp performance than the comparable IBM pSeries 630 model 6E4.

The workstation supports the SunTM XVR-100, SunTM XVR-500, SunTM XVR-1000 and SunTM XVR-1200 graphics accelerators. The newly priced Sun Blade 2000 is available now.

More information on these products can be found at: http://www.sun.com/desktop/products/ws.html

"We know that today's technical computing customers need high-quality, high-performance systems at an affordable price," says Fred Kohout, product line director, Workstations Product Group and Scalable Systems Group, Sun. "Today's move underscores Sun's commitment to producing the most advanced, powerful and affordable workstations available. Sun is the number one manufacturer of technical computing 64-bit UNIX workstations in the world, and we plan to stay number one through continually refreshing the features and pricing of our workstation product portfolio." [...read more...]

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