We at Stairmaster have had our N4000 in production for over a month now.
The performance increase (CPU power and Bus speed) is tremendous coming from a
957.

The first problems we had were that many of the third party vendors couldn't
validate software licenses with the new, longer, mixed case CPU names.
The HP hardware folks were quite impressed with our new box, but had never
seen one before, and we had a number of  'adventures'.  They wanted to do
screen captures on everything they did to pass on to their colleagues so the
wheel needn't be reinvented.
HP Software folks again were new to the OS (7.0) and hadn't used an N4000, but
managed to get us through.

Performance - Wonderful!!
Reliable - quite
Support - The longer they're out there, the better it will get.

Joe Hurzeler ([log in to unmask])



Mark Landin wrote:

> On Wed, 16 May 2001 12:00:12 -0500 (Central Daylight Time), Paul H
> Christidis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> >Fellow list members,
> >
> >It has been three months since HP announced the availability of the new
> >N-Class machines and I have not heard any 'personal' comments from anyone
> >in this list.  Has any site acquired one?
>
> Well the N-class hardware itself has been in the field for quite a
> long time, in the 9000 flavor, and seems to be well-received. I don't
> think there are any concerns about "is the N-class reliable?" It is
> fast and reliable.
>
> I think what you are most likely getting the willies about is MPE/iX
> 7.0. Right?

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