> I hope you are correct.. I personaly think unless you have
> texture/graphic intense jobs, or you have some extra money to burn,
SGI is still targeting the technical markets that SGI is strong in: with the opportunity costs associated with lower productivity with 'plain vanilla' PCs, and seen the price of the time that the people behind the machines spend, the extra cost as opposed to say, a plain Dell, is well worth it, or that customer's business model is broken.
If you want to compare to HP Kayaks with fx graphics and Intergraphs: well, these machines are a lot cheaper.
[BTW, while the fill rates of that machine are well above *anything* in the NT market, the geometry performance is nothing to be ashamed of either...these are the first machines to break through the 200 CDRS limit; even though that benchmark is 'antiquated' because it stresses *only* the geometry component of the gfx, and because the dataset is small, it does mean that you can do anti-aliased 3D lines very fast, which means that the geometry engine *is* fast]. |
