Yes. You get vastly more bang for the buck. You can get the performance (through-put) equivalent of a Sun Blade 2000 for about the same price as a Sun Blade 100. Only get a SPARC system if you need to compile SPARC code. Michael A. Moran David Yip wrote: Install Solaris x86 on your PC. At 22:12 13/6/2003, you wrote: This message was sent from: Sun Community Forum. <http://www.gekkou.co.uk/forum/read.php?f=1&i=567&t=567>[1] ---------------------------------------------------------------- and I am a student. What I need is the best "bang for the buck" system. Anyone out therewho can explain for me the difference between Sun Blade 100/150 and all the Ultra/Creator series out there. any advice would be highly appreciated ! best regards Tom ---------------------------------------------------------------- Sent using Phorum software version 3.4.3a <http://phorum.org>[2] --- Links --- 1 http://www.gekkou.co.uk/forum/read.php?f=1&i=567&t=567 2 http://phorum.org