alt Hacker NewsI think the problem was that the machines were always very expensive, even used.
My Fuel has an SSD and Id use it daily except:
- It's loud
- It's single core
- It's a furnace
- It's very very loud
It has a fairly modern Emacs, ssh and a non distracting UX. The browser is the only real thing that is too old to be useful, feature and performance wise, but that's just bonus points productivity wise (besides, rdesktop into a modern machine and you can watch youtube)
If I had a 900 MHz O2 loaded with RAM, and an SSD (SCSI SSD, ha!) it'd probably be my daily driver.
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I have a 600MHz RM7k O2, and my 700MHz R16k Fuel blows it out of the water. The O2 isn't that quiet or that quick even with upgrades!
What SSD are you running? I'm still on 10k SCSI drives selected for the quietness of their bearings.
Yes, I have a restored Indigo 2. I fixed at lot of things in the PSU.
And yes:
- It's loud
- It's single core
- It's a furnace
- It's very very loud
:-D