I'm not going to speak on the Intel vs. AMD issue. However, I've bought 10 workstations and 5 servers from Thinkmate over the last year. I've been pretty happy with them.
They use quality components, we have direct numbers for people there. I like their website, when we've had to RMA something, it wasn't an issue. Mike On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 4:31 PM, Barry Olddog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ----- Original Message ---- > >> From: John R Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: CentOS mailing list <centos@centos.org> >> Sent: Thursday, September 4, 2008 7:54:40 PM >> Subject: Re: [CentOS] OT: workstation recommends: Thinkmate? >> >> MHR wrote: >> > On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Barry Olddog wrote: >> > >> >> I'm just leery of a maker that I don't know; I searched for reviews and >> comments, but found almost nothing. Maybe that's telling me something. >> >> >> >> >> > >> > Isn't Thinkmate a spinoff of IBM? Or am I confused by the >> > Thinkpad/Thinkstation/terminology? >> > >> >> >> it appears (googled it) Thinkmate is a small 'whitebox' server >> integrator in Massachussetts, until recently known as SAG Electronics. >> >> >> > > As a sequel, I'm not only rethinking Thinkmate, but Opterons themselves. The > university department I work with recently bought some Opteron machines > (two-processor 2350) HPs, and also has some recent Xeon (two-processor 5405) > Dells. > > I ran a test on them with a Java parsing (natural language) program and found > that the Xeons did 33.72 words per second, while the Opterons lagged at 20.04 > words per second. These are both running the same Ubuntu version. It may not > be a common or representative benchmark, but it is the kind of thing I'll be > using my new machine for. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
