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Just for the record . . . The IRIS Indigo is a wicked fast machine. For price/performance for many CPU-intensive applications, like rendering, it wins over most competitors. It rates at 30 MIps, 6MFLOPS, and delivers it. Diskless, its $8K. 16 MB & 420 MB disk takes you to something like $12K. Of course, to test it in a meaningful way, you would need the same program optimized for both the IRIS Indigo and the *other* platform. The IRIS Elan is a graphics upgrade to the Indigo. It does not really affect the rendering speed. It does however affect the ability to work and interact with 3D models. It makes them really move around. And while CPU rendering speed is nothing to spend your nights dreaming about, the incredible realism of real-time rendering to the screen on the Elan is something to get very very excited about. It has an otherworldly futuristic appealing striking exciting kinda feel. Very exciting. Not to mention the DAT quality sound etc etc In short, we really like our products. john edelson sgi