The Sun Blade 100 workstation is designed to compete against powerful Microsoft Windows-based PCs which have cut into the business computer market once mostly reserved for workstations running on Unix operating systems, Sun officials said. Workstations are powerful computers typically used by engineers, financial analysts and graphic designers who need vast amounts of computing power.
Servers are the computers that manage Internet sites and corporate networks.
AMD's high-end Athlon processors slip down the price scale even further, cementing them as great bargains. Check out Sharky's Weekly CPU Prices here . Intel will continue its love affair with Rambus memory, indefinitely. IBM announced on Tuesday its Intellistation R Pro workstation, the guts of which can be packed away in a storage area. That is because the Intellistation R Pro is only 1.75 inches high, allowing it to be plugged into a rack with up to 42 other machines.