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To: OrionX who wrote (5523)	1/11/1999 5:32:00 PM
From: ramin shahidi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14451

"Is SGI going after a niche market again? Tell me I'm wrong." I am afraid that is the case. Please refer to the last ten msgs that was conspired between me and some SGI employees, to get the full spectrum of what is going on. --Ramin you wrote: /* What's the general consensus on the new Intel systems announced today? Seems to me they are over priced for their configuration. As for performance, we have no numbers yet so that issue is still open. So my question is the following: what kind of sales and volume does SGI expect to achieve with this product? It seems to me they won't capture the low end and mid range market space as they're too expensive compared to Dell, HP and the rest. Is SGI going after a niche market again? Tell me I'm wrong. */

To: OrionX who wrote (5523)	1/11/1999 8:14:00 PM
From: Kirk Vanden	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14451

OrionX, What's the genral consensus on the new Intel systems announced today? I for one was not dissapointed. SGI delivered exactly what I thought they would. The machines look to me to have enough value added to be in demand. I priced similar configurations with a 320 and Dell 410 Workstation, except for graphics. The difference was about 3K. (both had normal 21 inch monitors). So, the question would be whether the SGI graphics was so much better as to merit 3K. Yes, the graphics I saw today during SGI presentation was so good I'm surprised they only want a 3K premium. Graphics is a very important item for workstation buyers. Note that even Dell offers mostly just high end graphics cards for their workstation line, so customers must want fast graphics. SGI did an animation of a auto transmission with about 500,000 polygons on a 320 costing less than 5,000. As the SGI guy pointed out this was 1 cent/polygon. Their texture map performance was about 250% better than an HP NT machine. I also belive they showed Pro Engineer running 30% faster, although I might be wrong on this as I didn't catch this viewgraph very well. When they showed their Xeon machine handling 4 (four) video streams of uncompressed video at the same time I was very impressed. Seems like the machines will appeal to many niche markets. Perhaps enough niche markets that they will sell alot. Plus, with only a 3K differential above the Dell I priced I'd just take a 320 for normal business use. 3D plots from Excel would be awesome. SGI left me with the same impression that they did 10 years ago when I saw their UNIX boxes for the first time in person. They have a knack for taking an existing computer type and adding supercharged graphics, a real good data bus, and lots of other graphics and video goodies to make a machine that people will buy. Anyone else see the presentation ? I missed the last 30 minutes. Anything neat happen ?