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Technology Stocks : Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI)
SGI 91.07-0.9%Dec 8 3:59 PM EST
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To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (4731)4/20/1998 5:06:00 PM
From: Ali  Read Replies (1) of 14451
 
>Me and my nerd colleagues, we have and use most flavors of SGI boxes
>up to two figure multihead, We guess that a 4999.00 O2 has comparable
>performance to the entry level darwin 2999.00 Does Sun have more Apps
>ported than SGI. I'd guess that a useful darwin may have the same >price performance over a useful O2.

A few problems:

- The O2 and Darwin are targeted towards different arenas...

- The Ultra 5 and 10 use _IDE_ technology as opposed to SCSI.
The CPU overhead of a lot of things will bring that proc. down
quite a bit...

- The 5/10 don't have anywhere near the bandwidth that the O2 is
capable of. Prohibiting a lot of applications (especially video).

- SPEC numbers are only a ~part~ of the story. Thats why nobody
seems to respect SGI boxes... (well, nobody who knows what types of
things SPEC numbers don't touch... ;-))

In they beginning, the boxes are fundamentally different. In the
end, they'll come out to the same price after the 5 is outfitted
properly and the O2 is packed as well... price/performance in any
given arena may be different... etc.

Basically, buy a 5 for business, basic computation, etc. buy and O2
for visual-computing, video (awesome!)... etc.

I dunno but I never got a good feeling when comparing SGIs to SUNs.
Too many fundamental differences...
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