Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 26th Nov 2008 00:38 UTC, submitted by Eric
It's a sad day for all those countless admirers (seriously now, apart from myself...?) of Sun's Ultra 20 and Ultra 40 workstations. The Ultra 20 M2 and Ultra 40 M4 workstations have quietly reached their end-of-life, meaning the company currently has no more AMD-based workstations on offer. The magnificent case design of these machines, which made its debut in the form of the Sun Ultra 20, appears to be slowely but surely on its way out, since the UltraSPARC-based Ultra 25/45 have also been retired. This leaves the Ultra 24 (x64 Core 2 Duo/Quad) as the sole bearer of this case design. I would be very sad to see the angular and clean design go, seeing I placed it at number 7 on my list of most beautiful computers.
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"The Ultra 20 M2 and Ultra 40 M4 workstations have quietly reached their end-of-life"
I was going to say that if you still had one running, the last thing I'd expect would be it quietly reaching its end of life. In my experience after a couple of years the hard-drive either failed or made a horrendous racket.