Andy
I'm just getting into them myself and looking for one too. I know the Sun Blade 100 is now on sale for just under $1000.00 - thats the one I'm looking at. The other option is to get the Solaris 8 OS for Intel systems (Carl told me about it), but that may not work because the only old intel machine I might be able to get is an old Gateway that I dont think will support it - at least not according to Suns site. So, I'm seriously looking a the Sun Blade 100.
Here it is And here is the
Sun ultraSparc page Dave