[cobalt-users] NEW Cobalt RaQ xtr

[Jay Tingley <cobalt@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Looks like Cobalt has (or will have) a new toy out...

  http://www.cobalt.com/products/xtr/index.html

Other than the price ($4799 and $5999, respectively),
what is everyone's general opinion? Some comments:

 * why the move to the Pentium III over the AMD?

 * the configurations ship with 2 and 3 drives; are
   these expressly for RAID, or is the idea to allow
   up to 120GB of internal storage through an arry?

 * BlueLinQ app delivery service -- seems like an
   auto-update/install feature for .pkg files? No
   offense to Cobalt, but we usually wait a week to
   see how many people get burned with the latest
   install, or if it gets pulled from the site...

 * auto-DNS -- I wonder how user-configurable this
   is, or if it uses a default config/template?

Other than that, it looks like a nice machine, but I
would have liked to see MySQL, servlets and JSP as some
new features that are integrated for point/click install.
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Jay Tingley
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