> > What I was a bit shocked at, is reading the specs for these SGI
> > machines, they're intel CPUs!! Now I haven't really been keeping
> > up with what SGI are doing these days, but I hadn't realised
> > they'd stooped so low as to use intel processors.
>
> That's old hat.
>
> The machines _do_ still use the SGI graphics chipset - and let's face it,
> that's where SGI's excel, isn't it?
>
> I must admit, for the kind of money they're asking, I'd save up and buy a
> second hand indy or similar myself.
There's nothing wrong with using Intel CPUs for visual workstations. When it
comes to flops per dollar, the Intel (or AMD) CPUs are pretty hard to beat.
It's not like the applications which run on these require massive amounts of
IO.
Just my 2c,
Dave.
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