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To: Jerry Whlan who wrote (5499)	1/8/1999 10:51:00 AM
From: Woody_Nickels	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14451

Most SGI customers canNOT make due with 80% functionality. Their apps are very technical, graphics oriented. However, SGI should gain more mainstream customers because the price point is a good value.

To: Jerry Whlan who wrote (5499)	1/9/1999 12:55:00 PM
From: Eli Lauris	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14451

Jerry, According to Ars-Technica review (http://www.ars-technica.com/reviews/1q99/sgivw-5.html) the base system will include 128MB of RAM. Here's the direct quote: "the low end box, which is a Visual PC 320 with a PII processor, 128MB of RAM, all the standard equipment (audio/video ports, USB, IEEE 1394 (fire wire), and so on), is expected to ring in at just below $4,000." I guess we'll find out all the details on Monday. Also the two things that you mention: higher performance due to better memory and graphics subsystems are exactly why people would buy VW. I don't expect people who just want to surf the web with an occasional use of Microsoft Word to buy this system. The $800 Price Club special is indeed good enough for those tasks.

To: Jerry Whlan who wrote (5499)	1/11/1999 12:41:00 PM
From: Alexis Cousein	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14451

> and digital/analog(ntsc) video out are all extremely cheap > nowadays. He wasn't talking about the games-oriented NTSC out fom the framebuffer. He was talking about a professional quality system that lets you output and input from reps. to graphics and memory/disk, at full-frame rate. No, cards that do this (at YUV 4:2:2, 10 bits) are not cheap. And no-one is shoving the Silicon Graphics 1600SW down your throat, even though many people I know (personally, not professionally) are willing to add that $2.5K to their generic PC now that they've seen one (well, most of them do some desktop publishing, granted). > I think I will just save $4k and go witih 80% functionality. Well, if you don't need the features of the Silicon Graphics Visual Workstations, yes, you may want to buy something else for those Excel spreadsheets (even though one person in this office really liked Excel on a Silicon Graphics 1600SW, she might also have liked the flat panel with a number nine card in a generic PC). That doesn't surprise me at all. The business model doesn't require SGI to grab 70% of Dell's market either ;). Saving $4K will be hard -- with 128MB of memory, one Pentium II-350, and the official SGI 17" (and if you don't mind that a monitor has a different colour, and don't care about dot pitch, contrast, and horizontal frequency, I'm sure you can go very cheap there and get a faster PII or more memory), very hard ;).