IBM has begun selling blade servers using Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron processor.

An entry-level LS20 costs $2,259 for a model with a single 2GHz Opteron 248 and 1GB of memory, IBM said. AMD's 2GHz dual-core Opteron 270 is priced at $3,649. 

Sun and HP market Opteron as a good choice for mainstream computing, but IBM has positioned its Opteron products as best suited for high-performance technical computing.

For mainstream computing with x86 processors, IBM steers customers toward models with Intel's Xeon processor.

By: DocMemory
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