I started looking around on certain sites to see about how much it's going to run me if I were to get a new machine, and then I remembered something from a Speech I was watching where the speaker brought up the fact that they had an HP machine, but it wasn't a PC, it was a Workstation.

I started looking up what they were like for HP, and since everyone I know basically uses PCs and nothing else, I had no experience with them. I saw on HP they had a decent list of them, and a few low end ones that were super cheap, but I don't want that, I looked up the Alphas... Obviously lol.

For some reason they don't list any prices on these things at all. Only the super low end Vista Workstations actually show up with a price. The Alpha Workstations didn't though. does anyone here ever buy Workstations? How do you get a price list you can look at? I was thinking I'd probably like an Alpha Workstation with Tru64 Unix on it and a couple Nvidia cards.

The other ones I looked at were all from Sun. Sun obviously is nice, and I was looking at them and saw that for about 1500 dollars, I could get a Sun Workstation with Solaris 10 on it, and it would be decent, but not quite like the Alpha. I don't have any Non-PC hardware, so one reason I REALLY like the HP Alpha is the processor being an Alpha, and of course it coming with Tru64.

Do any of you know of any Workstations like this? I don't think the ones I'm talking about are high end or anything, they're fairly basic.

HP has the ones I mentioned, and Sun has a decent list, any others?

I prefer Unix, but Linux is OK too, (I say Unix because the Workstations come pre-installed with it, and only the Linux ones don't).