It's not my B-day, it's not New Years... why did I get this present?

It's here, and it's beautiful. My Java Workstation with Opteron 150 has been delivered yesterday! I love this thing. It's quiet, but powerful, just what I always aspired (is that the word I wanted?) to. And it's got freebies I did not expect to get: it's got both Serial ATA and SCSI 320 interfaces! You will never find the info on this at the Sun Micro website, since the only drive installed is plain ATA, but these interfaces are there! This machine has such a great upgradeability potential. It's a pity Sun Micro would not divulge the details on some of the features of this workstation, like, they would not say if dual-core Opterons are going to work in it, since dual-core Opterons were not made available yet. (I should post few pictures, probably.) There is that thing on the side of the processor, two raised connectors that are HyperTransport connectors. What are these for? Can a daughterboard with (gasp!) second processor be installed into the case? Please, nobody tell me the truth if not :)

So, what did I do first once I got my hands on it? Well, I did boot it into Java Desktop 2, but after just a half an hour of browsing around, I popped in the Solaris X installation CDs (burned those couple of weeks in advance) and installed this 64-bit OS. Man, this machine truly ROCKS! They don't call this desktop a Java Desktop v. 3 for nothing, as many-many interfaces are written in Java. And it runs on what people used to tease as "slowaris". Yet it all runs so fast, so snappy!

That's enough of exclamation points for first post on the subject, thank you.