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To: Mark Dalton who wrote (4704)	4/15/1998 2:19:00 PM
From: ramin shahidi	Read Replies (2) of 14451

>I take it you saw the article: >http://biz.yahoo.com/finance/980414/computers__4.html Having the $3k >to $4k graphics PCs by the end of the year Actually Marc, I red the article after I wrote the posting. But as a life time SGI user - who is on the merge of converting to other alternatives like high performance PCs - that is a price range I am willing to pay for an SGI-PC. SGI has a habit of announcing low prices for their computers in advance, but when the release time comes, they boost up their prices up. Kind of like German Cars!! O2 was a good example. They are pretty good machines. But O2s were promised to be a full desktop graphic workstation for under 5K. Today, one CAN buy an O2 for $4999. But the 5K machine is pretty much useless at that price (R5K proc, no video board and only 64M RAM (all used by operating system). By the time, you take an O2 and turn it to useable machine it would cost you at least another 5K. At $10-12K, a very high price/performance, was the main reason O2s lost their position in the market. I think, if SGI takes the same approach with SGI-PCs, they will be dead, before birth..

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