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Just trying to add some reality into the mix.
Fair enough, and I'd agree with your pricing (roughly), however, I think the point was, those two machines, while costing the same, aren't even close in processing power. A 8-way Xeon w/8Gig will blow the doors off that System i spec. Are there cheaper System i's, yes. And there are cheaper Dells too. 2 Quad-code Xeons is a _lot_ of processing power! Besides, let's face it, the spec is silly anyway. If you've got an 8-way machine you're not loading it w/4 146Gig 15K drives and SQL Server, you'd be so disk-bound it wouldn't be funny. -Walden
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