what's better? Those little cobalt boxes or those Dual PIII's? explain why please.thanks in advanced.

Oh my goodness, it's so easy to find out what the specs of these cobalt boxes ... Can you just do this simple search and judge it yourself? I won't tell ... It's to obvious .... ;)

cheers,
:beer:

LOL i know

I mean, what is the better home - a trailor or a mansion?
What tastes better chicken (no, not our little chicken ;)) or pigs ear?

:D

--James

You are comparing a single 300-500mhz to a dual 866mhz?

1). the mansion
2). chicken?

Please tell me you are joking around.

The Cobalt because that "cobalt blue" case is so darn cool! :)

Same here. I like the blue case. Therefor, the raq gets my vote :D

Aloha
what is better for a fast performance car ?

A) Yugo
b) Porshce 911

hmmm
(answer is b)

RackMy another cool thign to do if you want a cool case is get lots of frig magnets and stick all over your case ;)
you can write out words and stuff with those letter ones ;)
hehehehehhee

man I hope no one goes and does this ;)
hehehehehehe

Demigod, this poll is pointless because you are comparing a server with two processors. If someone is offering you two processors in a tiny box to trade with a Cobalt RaQ (they do make more than one model by the way), then I guess I could see the point, but otherwise, you are asking what is better an apple or an orange?

Originally posted by Chicken
but otherwise, you are asking what is better an apple or an orange? well, both would give you much of power ... but power != raq

perhaps this helps you
http://www.transmeta.com/technology/benchmarks/server_bench.html

but I am sure, that the transmeta box is much slower, that the benchmark is showing, but I think you can compare the other systems pretty well

Originally posted by Demigod
what's better? Those little cobalt boxes or those Dual PIII's? explain why please.thanks in advanced. ROTFLMAF!!!
:laugh: :emlaugh: :laugh: :emlaugh: :laugh: :emlaugh:

What is better? A Ford or a Ferrari, anyone know Im stuck on this one

Aloha
Techno trick Question its still a Porsche

did you ever get that URL name I sent ya ???

Cobalt Raq is better (cheaper) in price. :D

Originally posted by Demigod
what's better? Those little cobalt boxes or those Dual PIII's? explain why please.thanks in advanced.


Cobalts are good if you know nothing about servers but performance wise, it would be comparing a sloth to a cheetah. Cobalts are way over priced in the first place and are way behind in technology.

LMAO @ raq 3i 300Mhz amd cpus with eide harddrives. They have improved with the Raq4i but not by much.

I think it was a big mistake for SunMirco to buy Cobalt. I think they were bought for like 60 bucks a share. I agree the box looks nice though.

Originally posted by Asia
Cobalt Raq is better (cheaper) in price. :D

Hm ... what do you mean? Cobalt Raq4 sells for more than $2-3000 ... I can build a very powerful server (dual proc, SCSI, etc) at this price ... or even buy it, if I want too ...

Price/Performance-wise, cobalt is one of the worst ...

cheers,
:beer:

Fine. They are expensive. :blush:

RaQs are really not overpriced when you look at the hardware *and* software. I can go to 4sure.com and pick up a RaQ4i with 20 GB HD and 256 MB RAM for $1,378. I can go to QSOL and get a 600 MHz PIII with a 20 GB HD and 256 MB RAM for around $900... but no software. Add a Plesk unlimited license for $799, and the total comes to $1,699. The RaQ also includes Chili!Soft, a $500 piece of software (which doesn't mean much if you don't use it, but if you do--there it is).

Chris C,

Good point. Never thought about it that way.