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by qingcharles 104 days ago
For the price, these Sun workstations were slow as hell to me. X was horribly laggy. The UI put me off Unix GUIs for a decade. The mouse was meh.

I love the industrial design of these pizza boxes, though. I didn't mind when I was running them headless as IRC servers or web hosts.

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They were kind of fast and more fun by the time you got to the Sunblade 1500 running Gnome desktop.

But yeah, complete white elephants at that point. Too little too late.