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Lou, I stand by my estimate of $30,000 to have a useable Indy work station. I have no doubt that SGI is serious about penetrating the 'low end' market. But the uses that SGI envisions for this machine _require_ RAM in the _hundreds_ of megabytes. Graphics processing demands resources that are orders of magnitudes greater than what most people are used to using. The $30,000 figure comes from a long discussion that I had with our dealer. We compared the Indy to my 'middle of the road' pre-press setup (also vulgarly known in the industry as DTP). To acheive the same level of functionality as my Quadra 800 set up, the Indy _easily_ costs as much as I've indicated. Those are _his_ figures – and believe me, he is a motivated salesman. He _wants_ to sell me an Indy. But he's also honest and realistic. He knows my operation well and has no desire to mislead. There is no denying that getting the Indy outfitted as I've described gives it the ability to outperform the Mac in many other ways. To try to so equip the Mac would be even _more_ expensive, and probably not possible at all. Rich