I noticed that IBM has a 2x1.45GHz Power4 Intellistation in their used section for $700 with a 20" monitor. That's pretty cheap considering the price IBM charges for brand-new ones. A quick move over to the 285 page gets you $9000 for a 2 processor model (in this case 1 processor, 2 cores vs the 275's 2 physical processors). It also has a Spaceball and sound card, oooh the sound card makes it all worth it!
Well if you're looking for a cheap Unix workstation this would be a steal, it's almost better than that $600 SGI Octane2 I missed out on earlier this year. IBM charges $1900 for the GXT6500 graphics card it has by itself! Amazing, you could get two of the workstation and combine them to have 8GB of ram 2xHDD and 2xGraphics for less than the price of one of those cards.
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were you able to buy that workstation? what was it like? Were there any kind of hidden pricetags? Or it was a real price?!
I never bought one but they still have it on the site. I might in the future months if they still have one. THey're quite heavy so they might overcharge on the shipping though.
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